QA Contracts in Nottingham

Quality Assurance (QA)
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottingham requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing QA 9 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottingham 7.96% - 4.56%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 45.00% - 64.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 0 6
10th Percentile £73 - £256
25th Percentile £409 - £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £523 - £563
90th Percentile £545 - £609
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £468 - £413
% change year-on-year - - +3.13%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 20 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottingham 17.70% 9.70% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 10
10th Percentile £108 £268 £263
25th Percentile £410 £369 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £438
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% +2.86% -15.87%
75th Percentile £528 £510 £575
90th Percentile £545 £573 £629
Nottinghamshire median daily rate £470 £450 £409
% change year-on-year +4.44% +10.09% -3.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 1
Median hourly rate £12.92 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% -32.50% +110.75%
Nottinghamshire median hourly rate £12.92 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.30% -32.50% +110.75%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottingham.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Nottingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottingham

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Nottingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Nottingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Nottingham over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Nottingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Nottingham.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Nottingham

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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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Eclipse
2 2 (22.22%) NetBeans
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Retail
5 1 (11.11%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Retail Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Senior
2 2 (22.22%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
1 2 (22.22%) POSIX
2 1 (11.11%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (22.22%) Algorithms
3 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 1 (11.11%) IoT
3 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) API Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (22.22%) Analytical Thinking
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Document Composition
4 2 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Microservices
4 2 (22.22%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) SDLC
4 2 (22.22%) Software Engineering
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) C
2 2 (22.22%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) GDPR
1 2 (22.22%) MISRA
1 2 (22.22%) MISRA C
1 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (11.11%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 2 (22.22%) OpenText
2 2 (22.22%) QNX
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk