QA Leader Contracts in Shropshire

Quality Assurance Lead
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in Shropshire is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 1.54% - 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% - 1.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 - £420
75th Percentile - - £430
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £351 - £423
% change year-on-year - - -6.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 122 113 153
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 84.33% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 75 117
10th Percentile £314 £260 £401
25th Percentile £420 £374 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -7.06% +5.49%
75th Percentile £537 £536 £540
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £489 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
10th Percentile - £14.94 -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate £12.18 £15.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.80% -72.73% +323.08%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Job postings that featured QA Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in Shropshire

QA Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA Leader in Shropshire

QA Leader
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 Leader within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 - 2 £507 -
QA Leader
West Midlands

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Shropshire region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) IDMS
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) CA Gen
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) CA Gen
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility