QA Contracts in Portsmouth

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 42 37 30
Rank change year-on-year -5 -7 +2
Contract jobs citing QA 3 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 1.02% 2.48% 4.07%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.56% 19.35% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% - -
Hampshire median daily rate £450 £438 £450
% change year-on-year +2.86% -2.78% -5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Portsmouth

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 54 31 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 18.37% 12.81% 14.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 20 11
10th Percentile - £273 -
25th Percentile £400 £274 £165
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £413 £434
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.03% -8.56%
75th Percentile £583 £454 £528
90th Percentile £749 £688 £638
Hampshire median daily rate £515 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% +6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 10
10th Percentile - £24.31 £16.25
25th Percentile - £27.86 £22.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £36.27 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year +65.45% -17.49% -12.10%
75th Percentile - £45.56 £50.22
90th Percentile - £49.64 £60.04
Hampshire median hourly rate £37.50 £39.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.79% +75.04% -31.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Portsmouth

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Portsmouth

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Portsmouth

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Portsmouth 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 1 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (33.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Head of User Experience
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (66.67%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Blazor
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) RESTful
1 2 (66.67%) WCF
1 2 (66.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Graphic Design
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analysis
1 2 (66.67%) Design Patterns
1 2 (66.67%) ERD
1 2 (66.67%) MVC
1 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (66.67%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Budget Management
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Journey Map
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) User Journey Map
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) UX Research
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe