QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Staines

Quality Assurance Engineer
Surrey > Staines

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Staines is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 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
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Staines 4.35% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.55% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
Surrey median daily rate £375 - £425
% change year-on-year - - +83.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Staines

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Staines. 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 Staines with a recognized job title 22 30 42
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.65% 93.75% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 26 42
10th Percentile - - £167
25th Percentile £163 £203 £214
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £208 £205 £270
Median % change year-on-year +1.22% -24.07% -18.18%
75th Percentile £438 £378 £365
90th Percentile £675 £571 £401
Surrey median daily rate £488 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +2.63% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £80.00 -
Surrey median hourly rate £55.00 £53.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +3.77% -3.64% +22.22%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Staines

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Staines

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 27 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staines

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, QA Engineer 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 Staines region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) OCA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Staines 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Privacy
1 1 (100.00%) Data Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) OCA
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) GDPR
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle