QA Engineer Contracts in Nottingham

Quality Assurance Engineer
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Nottingham is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 2.65% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.94% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £427 - -
25th Percentile £439 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 - -
75th Percentile £501 - -
90th Percentile £514 - -
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £469 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Nottingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Nottingham. 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 Nottingham with a recognized job title 102 128 239
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.27% 95.52% 99.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 71 197
10th Percentile £202 £205 £320
25th Percentile £373 £363 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +6.04%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £700
90th Percentile £575 £650 £744
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £481 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +6.94% -10.00% +5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 14
10th Percentile - £12.22 £11.24
25th Percentile - £12.75 £12.76
Median hourly rate £11.44 £14.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year -18.29% -32.81% +98.43%
75th Percentile - £14.67 £26.48
90th Percentile £12.33 £16.25 £31.13
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £11.44 £14.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -18.29% -30.00% +47.28%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Nottingham

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in Nottingham.

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Nottingham

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 16 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Nottingham region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Microservices
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk
5 QA Engineer jobs in Nottinghamshire