Functional QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in the North East

Functional Quality Assurance Engineer
England > North East

The median Functional Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in the North East is £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Functional QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.16% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 - -
England median daily rate £453 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
North East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North East. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North East with a recognized job title 600 286 282
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.39% 94.39% 90.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 376 201 124
10th Percentile £306 £200 £190
25th Percentile £389 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £588
90th Percentile £638 £625 £650
England median daily rate £515 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.91% -1.00% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 69 19 62
10th Percentile £17.00 - £10.42
25th Percentile £50.00 £11.60 £11.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £13.00 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +400.00% -7.08% -64.44%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.30 £44.73
90th Percentile £72.50 £49.40 £50.00
England median hourly rate £45.00 £29.07 £37.50
% change year-on-year +54.80% -22.48% -16.67%

Functional QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Functional QA Engineer within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 May 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
Tyne and Wear - 1 £453 -
Functional QA Engineer
England

Functional QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 29 May 2026, Functional QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North East region featuring Functional QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver

Functional QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA