QA Contracts in Shropshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 28 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +18
Contract jobs citing QA 8 1 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 6.15% 0.75% 23.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.11% 16.67% 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 27
10th Percentile £438 - £334
25th Percentile £456 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.63%
75th Percentile £522 - £546
90th Percentile £538 - £595
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £525 £422
% change year-on-year -12.38% +24.41% -1.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.36 -
West Midlands median hourly rate - £15.90 £13.00
% change year-on-year - +22.31% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 6 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 14.62% 4.48% 28.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 33
10th Percentile £320 - £279
25th Percentile £423 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £117 £428
Median % change year-on-year +328.41% -72.66% -1.15%
75th Percentile £541 - £540
90th Percentile £541 - £595
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £16.36 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
% change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Shropshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Shropshire

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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 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 - 8 £495 - 1
QA
West Midlands

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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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) IDMS
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) CA Gen
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JBehave
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes