QA Analyst Contracts in the South East

Quality Assurance Analyst
England > South East

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in the South East is £505 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 192 223 254
Rank change year-on-year +31 +31 -47
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 10 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.18% 0.034% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% 0.036% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 3
10th Percentile £463 - £326
25th Percentile £491 - £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.30%
75th Percentile £511 - £454
90th Percentile £519 - £506
England median daily rate £479 £628 £428
% change year-on-year -23.63% +46.61% +10.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 5,204 5,592 7,540
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.30% 95.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,123 3,891 5,110
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £613 £601 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £663
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 477 238 336
10th Percentile £12.80 £18.08 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.03 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +114.29% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £43.25 £22.28
% change year-on-year -19.08% +94.12% -0.62%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the South East

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the South East.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in the South East

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in the South East

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. 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
Thames Valley +14 10 £505 -
Berkshire -1 10 £505 -
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 18 April 2024, QA Analyst 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 South East region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 8 (80.00%) Agile
3 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
4 6 (60.00%) Test Management
5 4 (40.00%) Degree
5 4 (40.00%) JIRA
6 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) Adobe
7 2 (20.00%) HTML
7 2 (20.00%) Java
7 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
7 2 (20.00%) E-business
7 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
7 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
7 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 2 (20.00%) Test Automation

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (20.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 8 (80.00%) Azure
1 8 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (10.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
1 8 (80.00%) DevOps
1 8 (80.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (60.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) E-business
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) Wireframes
4 1 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
4 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (10.00%) User Experience
4 1 (10.00%) UX Design
4 1 (10.00%) V-Model
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) Adobe