QA Contracts in Sheffield

Quality Assurance (QA)
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 41 52
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -25
Contract jobs citing QA 11 11 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.92% 2.42% 0.26%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.15% 14.86% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 1
10th Percentile £524 £398 -
25th Percentile £623 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £635 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +49.41% - +13.33%
75th Percentile £645 £575 £438
90th Percentile £648 £578 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £622 £425 £413
% change year-on-year +46.35% +3.03% +10.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 52 74 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 13.79% 16.26% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 50 38
10th Percentile £323 £384 £335
25th Percentile £413 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £599
90th Percentile £645 £700 £691
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -14.29% +16.67% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £14.13 £18.40
25th Percentile - £18.44 £19.75
Median hourly rate - £25.75 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.96% +89.11%
75th Percentile - £32.94 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.18 -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.75 £25.75 £22.65
% change year-on-year -50.49% +13.71% +65.35%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Sheffield over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 6 (54.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Apigee
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
1 6 (54.55%) GCP
1 6 (54.55%) GitHub
1 6 (54.55%) Kong
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
1 6 (54.55%) HTTP
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
1 6 (54.55%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 6 (54.55%) CircleCI
1 6 (54.55%) Git
1 6 (54.55%) GitLab
1 6 (54.55%) Jenkins
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
1 6 (54.55%) Travis CI
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Automation Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) DevOps Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (27.27%) Security Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Network Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (54.55%) Elastic Stack
1 6 (54.55%) JSON
1 6 (54.55%) XML
1 6 (54.55%) YAML
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Structures
2 4 (36.36%) CMDB
3 3 (27.27%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
1 9 (81.82%) DevOps
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (81.82%) Scrum
2 7 (63.64%) Project Management
3 6 (54.55%) API Development
3 6 (54.55%) API Integration
3 6 (54.55%) CI/CD
3 6 (54.55%) Collaborative Working
3 6 (54.55%) Containerisation
3 6 (54.55%) Continuous Deployment
3 6 (54.55%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (54.55%) DevSecOps
3 6 (54.55%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (54.55%) Secure Coding
3 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (54.55%) Task Automation
3 6 (54.55%) Use Case
3 6 (54.55%) Workflow
4 4 (36.36%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) PowerShell
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 6 (54.55%) Bash
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.09%) CCNP
2 1 (9.09%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 1 (9.09%) PMP
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Data Quality
2 1 (9.09%) GRC
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
1 6 (54.55%) Docker Swarm
1 6 (54.55%) Grafana
1 6 (54.55%) Kibana
1 6 (54.55%) Kubernetes
1 6 (54.55%) logstash
1 6 (54.55%) Progress Chef
1 6 (54.55%) Prometheus
1 6 (54.55%) Puppet
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 3 (27.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Splunk
2 4 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 1 (9.09%) Cisco