QA Contracts in Reading

Quality Assurance (QA)
Berkshire > Reading

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 34 69 79
Rank change year-on-year +35 +10 -26
Contract jobs citing QA 61 18 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 5.15% 1.73% 1.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 34.46% 14.29% 7.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 11 12
10th Percentile £421 £363 £354
25th Percentile £500 £453 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £520 £458
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% +13.66% -1.08%
75th Percentile - £556 £513
90th Percentile - £569 £584
Berkshire median daily rate £513 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +10.81% +8.82% +4.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £75.25 £25.50
Median hourly rate - £75.50 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year - +190.38% -
75th Percentile - £75.75 £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £21.75 £47.25 £47.08
% change year-on-year -53.97% +0.36% +121.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 177 126 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 14.95% 12.10% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 77 108
10th Percentile £313 £363 £306
25th Percentile £448 £425 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £489
Median % change year-on-year -2.71% +7.36% +4.04%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £595
90th Percentile - £723 £683
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -2.56% +2.63% +14.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £23.80 £10.60
25th Percentile - £31.75 £11.88
Median hourly rate - £45.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +221.43% -49.09%
75th Percentile - £60.38 £20.25
90th Percentile - £69.60 £24.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £67.59 £20.50 £21.05
% change year-on-year +229.71% -2.61% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Reading

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Reading

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Reading over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Reading

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Reading

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (3.28%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (13.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (9.84%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.64%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) Azure
2 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.28%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.64%) 2G
2 1 (1.64%) 3G
2 1 (1.64%) 4G
2 1 (1.64%) Firewall
2 1 (1.64%) RNC
2 1 (1.64%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.64%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.56%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.28%) Metadata
3 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.64%) MySQL
3 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) JIRA
2 1 (1.64%) Android Studio
2 1 (1.64%) Postman
2 1 (1.64%) Selenium
2 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
2 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
2 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 1 (1.64%) Visual Studio
2 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
2 1 (1.64%) Xcode
General
1 41 (67.21%) Social Skills
2 17 (27.87%) Telecoms
3 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (6.56%) Finance
6 3 (4.92%) Billing
7 2 (3.28%) Aerospace
7 2 (3.28%) Automotive
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.28%) Legal
7 2 (3.28%) Publishing
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 22 (36.07%) Build Engineer
2 21 (34.43%) Windows Build Engineer
2 21 (34.43%) Windows Engineer
3 11 (18.03%) Analyst
4 10 (16.39%) QA Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) QA Test Analyst
5 8 (13.11%) Test Analyst
6 5 (8.20%) Telecoms Manager
7 4 (6.56%) Lead
8 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
8 3 (4.92%) Quality Engineer
8 3 (4.92%) Release Manager
9 2 (3.28%) Consultant
9 2 (3.28%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.28%) Developer
9 2 (3.28%) Document Controller
9 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Manager
9 2 (3.28%) Infrastructure Project Manager
9 2 (3.28%) Oracle Analyst
9 2 (3.28%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) HTML
2 3 (4.92%) .NET
2 3 (4.92%) Node.js
2 3 (4.92%) React
2 3 (4.92%) React Native
3 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.28%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (3.28%) CSS
4 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.64%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.64%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) RESTful
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.92%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.28%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.28%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.28%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.28%) SCADA
3 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.64%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (37.70%) Windows
2 22 (36.07%) Windows Server
3 21 (34.43%) Windows 10
3 21 (34.43%) Windows NT
3 21 (34.43%) Windows Server 2012
3 21 (34.43%) Windows Server 2016
3 21 (34.43%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.64%) Android
4 1 (1.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (39.34%) Release Management
2 22 (36.07%) Customer Service
2 22 (36.07%) Service Management
2 22 (36.07%) User Acceptance Testing
3 21 (34.43%) Deployment Automation
3 21 (34.43%) ITIL
4 16 (26.23%) Agile
5 10 (16.39%) DevOps
6 8 (13.11%) Procure-to-Pay
7 7 (11.48%) Problem-Solving
7 7 (11.48%) Project Management
8 6 (9.84%) Project Delivery
8 6 (9.84%) Test Automation
8 6 (9.84%) Test Management
9 5 (8.20%) Project Planning
9 5 (8.20%) Scrum
9 5 (8.20%) Software Engineering
9 5 (8.20%) Waterfall
9 5 (8.20%) Workflow
10 4 (6.56%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
2 2 (3.28%) C#
2 2 (3.28%) Java
2 2 (3.28%) SQL
3 1 (1.64%) F#
Qualifications
1 22 (36.07%) DV Cleared
1 22 (36.07%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.75%) Degree
3 3 (4.92%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.92%) PMP
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.64%) MBCS
4 1 (1.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
1 2 (3.28%) ISO 14001
1 2 (3.28%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.64%) PMO
2 1 (1.64%) SLA
System Software
1 21 (34.43%) Active Directory
1 21 (34.43%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 21 (34.43%) SCCM
1 21 (34.43%) Sysprep
1 21 (34.43%) WSUS
2 1 (1.64%) Ansible
2 1 (1.64%) Grafana
2 1 (1.64%) Graylog
2 1 (1.64%) Nagios
2 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.64%) Terraform
Vendors
1 22 (36.07%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.28%) Adobe
4 2 (3.28%) BT
5 1 (1.64%) Citrix
5 1 (1.64%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.64%) Mavenir
5 1 (1.64%) Remedy
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk