QA Contract Job Trends in Sussex

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Sussex requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 8 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing QA 1 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Sussex 4.35% - 15.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 50.00% - 83.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £550 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £650 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £456 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +7.35% -12.82% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £10.42
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £19.00 £10.82
% change year-on-year +268.42% +75.60% -43.05%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Sussex

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 Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2 0 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex 8.70% - 18.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £585 - -
25th Percentile £638 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - £410
75th Percentile £838 - -
90th Percentile £875 - -
South East median daily rate £517 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.40% +5.26% -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £10.42
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £46.30 £27.50
% change year-on-year +13.39% +68.36% +13.32%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sussex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sussex.

QA job vacancy trend in Sussex

QA
Daily Rate Trend in Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sussex citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Sussex

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sussex citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sussex 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CodePipeline
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (100.00%) JWT
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth
1 1 (100.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Dependency Injection
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL