QA Contracts in Portsmouth

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Portsmouth 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 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 37 46
Rank change year-on-year +13 +9 -13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing QA 10 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Portsmouth 5.05% 0.48% 1.44%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 14.08% 2.70% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 4
10th Percentile £153 - -
25th Percentile £332 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £413
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -3.03% -8.33%
75th Percentile £519 - £448
90th Percentile £525 - £502
Hampshire median daily rate £500 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +21.21% -17.50% -2.44%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 71 37 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Portsmouth 35.86% 17.62% 14.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 22 29
10th Percentile - £400 £273
25th Percentile £200 £402 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% - +4.73%
75th Percentile £556 £690 £513
90th Percentile - £700 £540
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile - - £45.62
25th Percentile - - £45.62
Median hourly rate £24.66 £60.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.90% +22.45% +50.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 - £52.37
90th Percentile £65.79 - £52.37
Hampshire median hourly rate £24.66 £60.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -58.90% +22.46% +144.99%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Portsmouth

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Portsmouth over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Portsmouth

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Hourly Rate Trend in Portsmouth

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing QA

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) Confluence
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) Veeva
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
General
1 10 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Integration Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Data Business Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Desktop Migration Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Documentation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Time Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (40.00%) Decision-Making
3 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (30.00%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 3 (30.00%) Lean Software Development
3 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 3 (30.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 3 (30.00%) Sprint Review
3 3 (30.00%) User Research
3 3 (30.00%) User Stories
3 3 (30.00%) Validation
3 3 (30.00%) Wireframes
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow
4 2 (20.00%) Workflow Management
Qualifications
1 9 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Palantir
3 1 (10.00%) Micro Focus