QA Engineer Contracts in the North of England

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > North of England

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in the North of England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 June 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
6 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 186 231
Rank change year-on-year +16 +45 -40
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 11 17 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.23% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.25% 0.32% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 19
10th Percentile £393 £238 £444
25th Percentile £413 £400 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £523 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -10.98% +42.42%
75th Percentile - £575 £611
90th Percentile - £579 £625
England median daily rate £439 £600 £503
% change year-on-year -26.88% +19.40% +25.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £20.46 - -
England median hourly rate £44.61 £50.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.79% +10.62% +77.25%

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 4,458 5,242 6,977
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.95% 95.48% 96.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,665 5,109
10th Percentile £263 £263 £205
25th Percentile £386 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £568
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £531
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.68% +6.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 161 274
10th Percentile £11.11 £14.00 £11.31
25th Percentile £13.00 £17.72 £14.54
Median hourly rate £23.00 £27.98 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.80% +41.67% +11.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £44.50 £34.05
90th Percentile £66.61 £65.00 £62.11
England median hourly rate £38.14 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -15.26% +88.21% +11.73%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the North of England

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in the North of England

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in the North of England

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in the North of England

QA Engineer
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 Engineer within the North of England region over the 6 months to 6 June 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 +19 7 £500 +150.00% 2
North East +5 3 £368 -34.96% 2
Yorkshire +7 1 £425 -19.05%
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 6 June 2024, QA Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 7 (63.64%) Selenium
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 5 (45.45%) Git
4 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
5 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (36.36%) Java
5 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
6 3 (27.27%) C#
6 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Azure
6 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
6 3 (27.27%) BDD
6 3 (27.27%) API Testing
7 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
7 2 (18.18%) SDET
7 2 (18.18%) Fintech
7 2 (18.18%) SFIA
7 2 (18.18%) GitHub
7 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
7 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
7 2 (18.18%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (18.18%) WebdriverIO
7 2 (18.18%) Confluence
7 2 (18.18%) Scala
7 2 (18.18%) Jenkins

QA Engineer 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
2 2 (18.18%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Selenium
2 5 (45.45%) Git
3 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
4 2 (18.18%) Appium
4 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
4 2 (18.18%) GitLab
4 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
4 2 (18.18%) JIRA
4 2 (18.18%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (18.18%) Postman
5 1 (9.09%) Artifactory
5 1 (9.09%) Cypress.io
5 1 (9.09%) JMeter
5 1 (9.09%) Mercurial
5 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
5 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) pytest
1 2 (18.18%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (9.09%) Node.js
2 1 (9.09%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) CI/CD
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) API Testing
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 2 (18.18%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Conversational UI
6 2 (18.18%) Kanban
6 2 (18.18%) Load Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) QA Automation
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) SDET
6 2 (18.18%) TDD
6 2 (18.18%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) C#
2 3 (27.27%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 2 (18.18%) Python
3 2 (18.18%) Scala
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Perfecto Mobile