QA Contracts in Oxfordshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Oxfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Oxfordshire 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 23 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 24 32
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 7 6 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 2.85% 2.62% 1.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.14% 27.27% 15.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 4
10th Percentile £388 - -
25th Percentile £455 £120 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £260 £423
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -38.46% -19.52%
75th Percentile £520 £425 £479
90th Percentile £531 £470 £514
South East median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
South East median hourly rate £10.82 £42.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year -74.39% -11.05% +146.75%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Oxfordshire

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 Oxfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 29 22 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Oxfordshire 11.79% 9.61% 11.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 27
10th Percentile £150 £144 £167
25th Percentile £288 £360 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £444 £440
Median % change year-on-year +1.41% +0.85% -4.86%
75th Percentile £500 £491 £519
90th Percentile £525 £523 £820
South East median daily rate £475 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -4.04% +4.21% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile - £30.75 -
25th Percentile - £43.13 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% - -
75th Percentile - £50.94 -
90th Percentile £82.25 £52.63 -
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £46.25 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.54% +120.24% -17.65%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Oxfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Oxfordshire over the 6 months to 23 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Oxfordshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Oxfordshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Oxfordshire

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Contract Job Locations in Oxfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Oxfordshire region over the 6 months to 23 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
Oxford +5 5 £488 +306.25% 6
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Oxfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
1 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
1 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Senior E-Commerce Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) LIMS
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Business Case
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Oracle