QA Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Quality Assurance (QA)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 32 35
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing QA 14 6 18
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.23% 2.87% 3.59%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 18.42% 10.91% 19.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 12
10th Percentile £223 - £325
25th Percentile £268 £363 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £419 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.45% -11.84% -5.38%
75th Percentile £500 £520 £478
90th Percentile £538 £544 £566
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £375 £494 £475
% change year-on-year -24.05% +3.95% -5.38%

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 76 55 92
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 17.55% 26.32% 18.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 44 65
10th Percentile £247 £247 £249
25th Percentile £322 £362 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £582 £630 £600
90th Percentile £640 £668 £990
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £444 £509 £518
% change year-on-year -12.78% -1.69% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile - - £16.96
25th Percentile £18.32 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £36.00 £12.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +200.00% -50.88% -
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £18.32 £12.00 £27.22
% change year-on-year +52.67% -55.91% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

QA job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing QA

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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 21 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) SAN
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Investment Banking
5 1 (7.14%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Lead
1 4 (28.57%) Test Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Delivery Director
4 1 (7.14%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Onboarding Manager
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Salesforce Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Flutter
1 2 (14.29%) JSON
1 2 (14.29%) Playwright
1 2 (14.29%) React
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (14.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 6 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
4 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (35.71%) Knowledge Transfer
4 5 (35.71%) Regression Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (35.71%) Test Assurance
5 4 (28.57%) Data Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
6 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (21.43%) ETL
6 3 (21.43%) Kanban
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 3 (21.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) C#
1 2 (14.29%) Kotlin
2 1 (7.14%) Java
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) PMO
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) CheckPoint
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
3 1 (7.14%) Planview