QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Quality Assurance Engineer
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Shropshire is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 40 -
Rank change year-on-year -47 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.26% 0.52% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.57% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 £425 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% - -
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £425 £300
% change year-on-year - +41.67% -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Shropshire with a recognized job title 729 176 90
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.54% 92.15% 79.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 120 64
10th Percentile £358 £324 £166
25th Percentile £413 £402 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £484 £466
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% +3.70% -2.86%
75th Percentile £537 £538 £519
90th Percentile £630 £545 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 2 0
10th Percentile £15.74 £26.13 -
25th Percentile £38.40 £27.59 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £31.31 -
Median % change year-on-year +67.70% - -
75th Percentile £60.37 £36.30 -
90th Percentile £65.25 £38.53 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £32.00 £24.34 £19.59
% change year-on-year +31.47% +24.25% -4.44%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Shropshire

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in Shropshire

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 7 August 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Telford -46 2 £300 -29.41% 1
QA Engineer
West Midlands

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 7 August 2026, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Shropshire region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA