QA Contracts in Reading

Quality Assurance (QA)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 68 82
Rank change year-on-year +29 +14 -25
Contract jobs citing QA 60 17 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 4.96% 1.62% 1.46%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 37.50% 14.66% 8.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 12 15
10th Percentile £343 £366 £339
25th Percentile £500 £438 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -16.30% +27.78%
75th Percentile £575 £526 £609
90th Percentile - £565 £638
Berkshire median daily rate £511 £463 £425
% change year-on-year +10.43% +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 £19.00 £19.00 £47.08
% change year-on-year - -59.65% +121.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 160 116 232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 13.23% 11.08% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 79 119
10th Percentile £321 £363 £185
25th Percentile £448 £467 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £603 £613
90th Percentile £583 £688 £683
Berkshire median daily rate £475 £515 £473
% change year-on-year -7.77% +8.94% +15.66%
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% -53.33%
75th Percentile - £60.38 £20.25
90th Percentile - £69.60 £24.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £65.00 £20.50 £21.03
% change year-on-year +217.07% -2.50% -0.12%

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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 16 June 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 (3.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (13.33%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (10.00%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.33%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (1.67%) Amazon S3
3 1 (1.67%) AWS
3 1 (1.67%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (1.67%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.67%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (1.67%) Firewall
2 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (3.33%) Metadata
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (15.00%) JIRA
2 2 (3.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (1.67%) Android Studio
3 1 (1.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (1.67%) Postman
3 1 (1.67%) Selenium
3 1 (1.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (1.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (1.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (1.67%) Xcode
General
1 36 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 19 (31.67%) Telecoms
3 18 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.33%) Finance
5 6 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (8.33%) Retail
7 4 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (5.00%) Billing
9 2 (3.33%) Aerospace
9 2 (3.33%) Automotive
9 2 (3.33%) Legal
9 2 (3.33%) Publishing
10 1 (1.67%) Games
10 1 (1.67%) Marketing
10 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (25.00%) Build Engineer
1 15 (25.00%) Windows Build Engineer
1 15 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) QA Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) QA Test Analyst
4 8 (13.33%) Test Analyst
5 7 (11.67%) IT Manager
5 7 (11.67%) IT Operations Manager
5 7 (11.67%) Performance Manager
6 6 (10.00%) Operations Manager
7 5 (8.33%) Quality Engineer
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
8 4 (6.67%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 4 (6.67%) Lead
9 3 (5.00%) Telecoms Manager
9 3 (5.00%) Tester
10 2 (3.33%) Consultant
10 2 (3.33%) Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.33%) HTML
2 3 (5.00%) .NET
2 3 (5.00%) Node.js
2 3 (5.00%) React
2 3 (5.00%) React Native
3 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.33%) ASP.NET MVC
3 2 (3.33%) CSS
4 1 (1.67%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.67%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.67%) JSON
4 1 (1.67%) RESTful
4 1 (1.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.33%) SCADA
3 1 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.67%) PlayStation
3 1 (1.67%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 18 (30.00%) Windows
2 16 (26.67%) Windows Server
3 15 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 15 (25.00%) Windows NT
3 15 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 15 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 15 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (33.33%) ITIL
2 16 (26.67%) Customer Service
2 16 (26.67%) Service Management
2 16 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
3 15 (25.00%) Release Management
4 13 (21.67%) Agile
5 10 (16.67%) Customer Experience
5 10 (16.67%) DevOps
6 8 (13.33%) Procure-to-Pay
7 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure Management
7 6 (10.00%) Test Management
8 5 (8.33%) Balanced Scorecard
8 5 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.33%) Performance Management
8 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (8.33%) Project Management
8 5 (8.33%) Quality Management
8 5 (8.33%) Scrum
8 5 (8.33%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.00%) Python
2 3 (5.00%) SQL
3 2 (3.33%) C#
3 2 (3.33%) Java
4 1 (1.67%) F#
Qualifications
1 16 (26.67%) DV Cleared
1 16 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 6 (10.00%) Degree
3 1 (1.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (3.33%) ISO 14001
2 2 (3.33%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.67%) PMO
3 1 (1.67%) SLA
System Software
1 15 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 15 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (25.00%) SCCM
1 15 (25.00%) Sysprep
1 15 (25.00%) WSUS
2 1 (1.67%) Ansible
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
2 1 (1.67%) Graylog
2 1 (1.67%) Nagios
2 1 (1.67%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.33%) Oracle
3 6 (10.00%) Splunk
4 5 (8.33%) Dynatrace
5 4 (6.67%) BT
6 2 (3.33%) Adobe
6 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.67%) Citrix
7 1 (1.67%) Databricks
7 1 (1.67%) Sony