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 10 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 19 20 24
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 2 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 1.75% 1.60% 4.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.33% 10.53% 47.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £267 - £466
25th Percentile £274 - £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £295 £450 £588
Median % change year-on-year -34.44% -23.40% +6.82%
75th Percentile £314 - £625
90th Percentile £319 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £538 £543 £588
% change year-on-year -0.92% -7.66% +30.56%

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 24 19 17
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 21.05% 15.20% 8.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 13
10th Percentile £224 £371 £409
25th Percentile £291 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £500 £588
Median % change year-on-year +0.50% -14.89% +8.80%
75th Percentile £555 £600 £625
90th Percentile £775 - £666
Wiltshire median daily rate £600 £513 £575
% change year-on-year +17.07% -10.87% +1.23%

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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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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 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB