QA Contracts in Stevenage

Quality Assurance (QA)
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stevenage 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 27 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - +3
DemandTrendContract jobs citing QA 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Stevenage 0.48% - 0.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 5.56% - 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £375 £420
% change year-on-year +40.80% -10.71% -1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
75th Percentile - - £24.50
90th Percentile - - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate - £12.36 £23.00
% change year-on-year - -46.26% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 13 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 8.65% 3.49% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 15
10th Percentile £207 £268 -
25th Percentile £300 £294 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £338 £275
Median % change year-on-year +18.52% +22.73% -52.17%
75th Percentile £530 £346 £350
90th Percentile £655 £419 £552
Hertfordshire median daily rate £528 £345 £524
% change year-on-year +53.04% -34.13% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile - - £24.25
25th Percentile - - £28.38
Median hourly rate £31.64 £14.41 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +119.57% -59.97% +33.33%
75th Percentile - £19.21 £42.88
90th Percentile - £22.08 £46.55
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £17.78 £15.34 £23.00
% change year-on-year +15.89% -33.30% +3.37%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Stevenage

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Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing QA

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) LabWare
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle