QA Leader Contracts in Telford

Quality Assurance Lead
Shropshire > Telford

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in Telford is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 - 57
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 1.85% - 1.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.96% - 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 - £420
75th Percentile - - £430
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median daily rate £507 - £420

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 102 98 137
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.44% 83.76% 88.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 68 107
10th Percentile £390 £346 £412
25th Percentile £450 £400 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.49% -4.69% +7.60%
75th Percentile £538 £536 £553
90th Percentile £541 £538 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £493 £500 £538
% change year-on-year -1.40% -7.06% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £15.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -72.73% +378.26%
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £15.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -18.80% -72.73% +323.08%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Job postings that featured QA Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in Telford

QA Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for QA Leader in Telford

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Telford region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) IDMS
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) CA Gen
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 2 (100.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (100.00%) CA Gen
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
General
1 2 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Time Management
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility