QA Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire 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 11 - 22
Rank change year-on-year - - +18
Contract jobs citing QA 11 0 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 7.80% - 5.12%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 47.83% - 61.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 8
10th Percentile £75 - £299
25th Percentile £410 - £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 - £413
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.13%
75th Percentile £534 - £581
90th Percentile £545 - £606
East Midlands median daily rate £410 £303 £325
% change year-on-year +35.54% -6.92% -23.08%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 23 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 16.31% 8.81% 8.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 14
10th Percentile £185 £290 £301
25th Percentile £410 £425 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £409
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +10.09% -3.82%
75th Percentile £534 £488 £556
90th Percentile £545 £564 £613
East Midlands median daily rate £391 £434 £415
% change year-on-year -9.91% +4.58% +3.75%
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%
East Midlands median hourly rate £20.60 £23.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year -13.25% -52.51% +192.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Nottinghamshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Nottinghamshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Nottinghamshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Nottinghamshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Nottinghamshire

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Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Nottingham - 9 £438 - 40
QA
East Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 (18.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Exstream
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
2 2 (18.18%) Eclipse
2 2 (18.18%) NetBeans
General
1 7 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) QA Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) QA Test Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Retail Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Principal Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) POSIX
2 1 (9.09%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Algorithms
2 2 (18.18%) Data Structures
3 1 (9.09%) IoT
3 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) API Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (36.36%) Unit Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Document Composition
4 3 (27.27%) Microservices
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) Actionable Insight
5 2 (18.18%) Data Mapping
5 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Manual Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Requirements Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) SDLC
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (45.45%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C
2 2 (18.18%) C++
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) MISRA
1 2 (18.18%) MISRA C
1 2 (18.18%) Software Quality Assurance
2 1 (9.09%) IEC 61508
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) OpenText
3 2 (18.18%) QNX
4 1 (9.09%) Splunk