QA Contracts in Milton Keynes

Quality Assurance (QA)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 32 54
Rank change year-on-year +12 +22 -14
Contract jobs citing QA 11 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 6.36% 3.08% 2.80%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.64% 16.22% 15.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 17
10th Percentile £325 £347 £310
25th Percentile £363 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -16.84% -2.56% -4.41%
75th Percentile £425 £484 £502
90th Percentile £485 £576 £576
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £425 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -10.53% -4.04% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - -
75th Percentile £53.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £52.50 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Milton Keynes

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 56 74 134
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 32.37% 18.97% 17.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 49 95
10th Percentile £325 £173 £230
25th Percentile £378 £353 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% +1.06% +4.44%
75th Percentile £630 £588 £514
90th Percentile £650 £600 £636
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £550 £475 £470
% change year-on-year +15.79% +1.06% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 0
10th Percentile - £15.93 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £18.00 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £24.43 -
Median % change year-on-year +114.90% - -
75th Percentile £53.75 £30.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £65.00 £27.50 -
% change year-on-year +136.36% - -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Milton Keynes.

Daily rate trend for QA in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Milton Keynes

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Milton Keynes.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Milton Keynes

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Figma
2 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) SQL Server
2 2 (18.18%) BigQuery
2 2 (18.18%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
3 1 (9.09%) Impala
3 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) QARun
1 2 (18.18%) WinRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Axure RP
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Test Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Support
4 1 (9.09%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Designer
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Mainframe Support
4 1 (9.09%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) PMO Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Support Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Mainframe
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 6 (54.55%) Waterfall
3 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
3 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
4 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Logistics
4 4 (36.36%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (36.36%) System Integration Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Test Automation
5 3 (27.27%) Test Assurance
5 3 (27.27%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Case Management
6 2 (18.18%) DevOps
6 2 (18.18%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) VB
2 1 (9.09%) COBOL
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) CTC Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle