Senior QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
Wiltshire > Swindon

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Swindon is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 30 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 0.50% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Swindon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Swindon. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Swindon with a recognized job title 177 93 106
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.94% 86.92% 82.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 65 69
10th Percentile £317 £241 £174
25th Percentile £425 £308 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -14.29%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £538
90th Percentile £728 £619 £608
Wiltshire median daily rate £525 £575 £540
% change year-on-year -8.70% +6.48% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 0 6
10th Percentile - - £13.88
25th Percentile £11.32 - £15.75
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £22.50
75th Percentile £50.50 - £30.25
90th Percentile £51.00 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £36.36 £21.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year +67.15% +31.82% -73.81%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior QA Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Senior QA Engineer job vacancy trend in Swindon

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon

For the 6 months to 4 July 2026, Senior QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Swindon region featuring Senior QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

Senior QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Databricks
Senior QA Engineer jobs