QA Tester Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Quality Assurance Tester
West Midlands > Shropshire

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Shropshire is £350, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2026.

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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 30 -
Rank change year-on-year -31 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 14 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 2.17% 0.74% -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.32% 0.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £315 £485 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £495 -
Median % change year-on-year -29.29% - -
75th Percentile £371 £505 -
90th Percentile £385 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £350 £489 £190
% change year-on-year -28.43% +157.37% -58.92%

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 604 126 121
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.64% 93.33% 85.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 82 84
10th Percentile £350 £315 £200
25th Percentile £403 £405 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £472 £492
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -3.97% -8.13%
75th Percentile £506 £537 £535
90th Percentile £575 £541 £538
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £476 £475
% change year-on-year -0.11% +0.11% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 0 6
10th Percentile £25.15 - £14.94
25th Percentile £51.25 - -
Median hourly rate £52.50 - £15.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.73%
75th Percentile £61.00 - -
90th Percentile £65.25 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £33.99 £18.13 £22.00
% change year-on-year +87.45% -17.59% +10.00%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

QA Tester job vacancy trend in Shropshire

QA Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

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

QA Tester
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 Tester within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 21 May 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 -30 14 £350 -29.29% 1
QA Tester
West Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2026, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) QA
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (85.71%) Agile
2 12 (85.71%) Data Migration
2 12 (85.71%) Data Warehouse
2 12 (85.71%) ETL
2 12 (85.71%) JIRA
2 12 (85.71%) Migration
2 12 (85.71%) Oracle
2 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) Zephyr
3 11 (78.57%) AWS
3 11 (78.57%) Integration Testing
3 11 (78.57%) ISTQB
3 11 (78.57%) Oracle Reports
3 11 (78.57%) SQL
3 11 (78.57%) System Testing
4 10 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
4 10 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
4 10 (71.43%) Test Management
4 10 (71.43%) Test Scripting
5 9 (64.29%) Customer Requirements
5 9 (64.29%) Git
5 9 (64.29%) Postman
6 8 (57.14%) Manual Testing
7 6 (42.86%) Sage
8 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 2 (14.29%) GitLab

QA Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 11 (78.57%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (85.71%) Data Warehouse
2 11 (78.57%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 12 (85.71%) JIRA
1 12 (85.71%) Zephyr
2 9 (64.29%) Git
2 9 (64.29%) Postman
3 2 (14.29%) GitLab
3 2 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Advertising
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (85.71%) Agile
1 12 (85.71%) Data Migration
1 12 (85.71%) ETL
1 12 (85.71%) Migration
1 12 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 11 (78.57%) Integration Testing
2 11 (78.57%) System Testing
3 10 (71.43%) End-to-End Testing
3 10 (71.43%) Scenario Testing
3 10 (71.43%) Test Management
3 10 (71.43%) Test Scripting
4 9 (64.29%) Customer Requirements
5 8 (57.14%) Manual Testing
6 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 2 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 14 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (42.86%) Sage
3 1 (7.14%) Denodo
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.14%) Talend