QA Contract Job Trends in Stockton-on-Tees

Quality Assurance (QA)
Durham > Stockton-on-Tees

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Stockton-on-Tees requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stockton-on-Tees 20.00% - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 100.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median daily rate £388 £400 -
% change year-on-year -3.13% - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Stockton-on-Tees

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 Stockton-on-Tees.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockton-on-Tees 20.00% - 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 5
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £400
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Durham median daily rate £500 £275 £400
% change year-on-year +81.82% -31.25% +3.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Stockton-on-Tees

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Stockton-on-Tees.

QA job vacancy trend in Stockton-on-Tees

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Daily Rate Trend in Stockton-on-Tees

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockton-on-Tees citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stockton-on-Tees citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stockton-on-Tees 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) UAT Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft