HP Quality Center Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

HP Quality Center (HP QC)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring HP Quality Center skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing HP Quality Center 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.088% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 0.76% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £450 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -14.29% +13.51% -2.63%

All Systems Management Skills
Midlands

HP Quality Center falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills in the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 525 325 348
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 11.58% 14.67% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 375 216 261
10th Percentile £253 £220 £250
25th Percentile £408 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% -5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £553 £575
90th Percentile £656 £650 £645
England median daily rate £515 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.38% -8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 4 8
10th Percentile £21.70 - £15.01
25th Percentile £34.34 - £22.95
Median hourly rate £65.57 £21.39 £25.77
Median % change year-on-year +206.55% -16.98% +18.90%
75th Percentile £74.00 - £33.36
90th Percentile £75.00 - £61.00
England median hourly rate £62.00 £48.50 £31.25
% change year-on-year +27.84% +55.20% -43.18%

HP Quality Center
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP Quality Center relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

HP Quality Center job vacancy trend in the Midlands

HP Quality Center
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HP Quality Center.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HP Quality Center

HP Quality Center
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HP Quality Center.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing HP Quality Center

HP Quality Center
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP Quality Center within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 July 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Midlands - 4 £450 - 1
HP Quality Center
England

HP Quality Center
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
1 2 (50.00%) UAT Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Change Control
2 2 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Impact Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
3 1 (25.00%) Guidewire