QA Contracts in Telford

Quality Assurance (QA)
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 21 - 27
Rank change year-on-year - - +14
Contract jobs citing QA 8 0 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 7.41% - 22.58%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 42.11% - 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 27
10th Percentile £438 - £334
25th Percentile £456 - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 - £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +28.44%
75th Percentile £522 - £546
90th Percentile £538 - £595
Shropshire median daily rate £495 - £525
% change year-on-year - - +29.63%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 19 5 41
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 17.59% 4.27% 26.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 31
10th Percentile £320 - £320
25th Percentile £423 - £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £117 £463
Median % change year-on-year +328.41% -74.70% +11.45%
75th Percentile £541 - £546
90th Percentile £541 - £595
Shropshire median daily rate £501 £117 £428
% change year-on-year +328.41% -72.66% -1.15%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Telford

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Telford

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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 (25.00%) Confluence
2 1 (12.50%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) IDMS
1 2 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (25.00%) CA Gen
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) GitLab
3 1 (12.50%) JBehave
3 1 (12.50%) Maven
3 1 (12.50%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Developer
2 3 (37.50%) Lead
3 2 (25.00%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (25.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (12.50%) Java Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Developer
4 1 (12.50%) Lead Java Developer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) React
2 2 (25.00%) CSS
2 2 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (25.00%) Next.js
3 1 (12.50%) Apache Camel
3 1 (12.50%) Gherkin
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
3 1 (12.50%) Spring
3 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Microservices
2 5 (62.50%) Test Automation
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (37.50%) Business Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Front End Development
4 3 (37.50%) Pair Programming
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Time Management
5 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Java
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) COBOL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISEB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Kubernetes