QA Analyst Contracts in the North of England

Quality Assurance Analyst
England > North of England

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in the North of England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 173 211 234
Rank change year-on-year +38 +23 -47
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 12 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.10% 0.084%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.11% 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 4 6
10th Percentile - £418 -
25th Percentile £463 £427 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £444 £288
Median % change year-on-year +12.68% +54.35% -10.23%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £352
90th Percentile £517 £520 £374
England median daily rate £475 £628 £428
% change year-on-year -24.30% +46.61% +14.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 4,370 5,536 6,958
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.12% 95.30% 96.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,742 3,911 5,115
10th Percentile £263 £281 £200
25th Percentile £385 £410 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.95% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £550
90th Percentile £675 £684 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 393 160 284
10th Percentile £11.01 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.76 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.00 £31.63 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -36.76% +70.11% +4.63%
75th Percentile £46.00 £50.72 £28.75
90th Percentile £60.00 £66.07 £51.25
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the North of England

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in the North of England

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in the North of England

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the North of England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
North West +30 9 £488 +9.86% 2
Yorkshire - 3 £517 - 2
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, QA Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (75.00%) Data Management
2 9 (75.00%) Data Analysis
2 9 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
2 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 9 (75.00%) SAP
2 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 9 (75.00%) Power BI
2 9 (75.00%) Power Platform
2 9 (75.00%) Snowflake
3 8 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
4 7 (58.33%) Data Governance
4 7 (58.33%) Data Lake
5 6 (50.00%) Dataiku
5 6 (50.00%) Power Automate
5 6 (50.00%) Collibra
5 6 (50.00%) Ataccama
5 6 (50.00%) Alteryx
5 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
5 6 (50.00%) Qlik Sense
5 6 (50.00%) Data Architecture
5 6 (50.00%) Python
5 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
5 6 (50.00%) SAS
5 6 (50.00%) Trillium
6 5 (41.67%) Data Mining
6 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (41.67%) Data Cleansing
6 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
6 5 (41.67%) Social Skills

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (75.00%) Power Platform
1 9 (75.00%) Snowflake
2 6 (50.00%) Collibra
2 6 (50.00%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Power BI
2 7 (58.33%) Data Lake
3 6 (50.00%) Ataccama
3 6 (50.00%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (50.00%) SQL Server
4 5 (41.67%) Data Mining
5 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (16.67%) Postman
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 8 (66.67%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (75.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (75.00%) Data Management
2 7 (58.33%) Data Governance
3 6 (50.00%) Data Architecture
4 5 (41.67%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (41.67%) Visualisation
5 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (25.00%) IT Audit
5 3 (25.00%) Process Improvement
5 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 3 (25.00%) Test Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 2 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (75.00%) SQL
2 6 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) SAP
2 6 (50.00%) Alteryx
2 6 (50.00%) Dataiku
2 6 (50.00%) Trillium
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft