QA Contracts in Swindon

Quality Assurance (QA)
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 20 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing QA 4 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 4.08% 0.81% 3.86%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.05% 8.33% 32.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £272 - £438
25th Percentile £285 - £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 £520 £548
Median % change year-on-year -39.42% -5.02% -4.78%
75th Percentile £530 - £625
90th Percentile £655 - £650
Wiltshire median daily rate £515 £526 £600
% change year-on-year -2.19% -12.29% +26.32%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 12 28
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 19.39% 9.76% 12.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 20
10th Percentile £302 £263 £367
25th Percentile £525 £325 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £523 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.46% +6.63% -7.55%
75th Percentile £586 £584 £591
90th Percentile £650 £619 £630
Wiltshire median daily rate £575 £510 £600
% change year-on-year +12.75% -15.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £11.25 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate - £11.25 -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Swindon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Swindon.

Daily rate trend for QA in Swindon

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Daily Rate Histogram in Swindon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Swindon over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Swindon

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Swindon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Swindon.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Swindon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) ERP Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Lead Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Middleware
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Business Process Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Compliance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) IT Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk and Compliance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) TOGAF Certification
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Google
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle