QA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 43 87 48
Rank change year-on-year +44 -39 +26
Contract jobs citing QA 113 67 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 4.10% 2.25% 4.16%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.24% 15.19% 27.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 47 111
10th Percentile £325 £343 £350
25th Percentile £447 £406 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.09% +15.29% +4.94%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £500
90th Percentile - £604 £575
South East median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - +6.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 3
10th Percentile - £24.18 £16.71
25th Percentile £24.25 £32.69 £20.01
Median hourly rate £24.50 £47.25 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.15% +81.73% +22.35%
75th Percentile £24.75 £61.69 £47.37
90th Percentile - £70.13 £59.90
South East median hourly rate £10.82 £47.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year -77.10% -0.53% +143.59%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 508 441 539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 18.43% 14.81% 15.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 270 338
10th Percentile £198 £252 £213
25th Percentile £335 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £572
90th Percentile £600 £675 £625
South East median daily rate £475 £473 £475
% change year-on-year +0.53% -0.53% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 13 16
10th Percentile £20.25 £18.70 £11.54
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.00 £13.58
Median hourly rate £28.75 £23.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +9.52% -0.24%
75th Percentile £65.00 £31.00 £22.00
90th Percentile £68.84 £52.00 £42.77
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £31.00 £21.78
% change year-on-year -11.29% +42.37% -14.61%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire +39 93 £513 +5.13% 31
Buckinghamshire +17 14 £475 -4.04% 14
Oxfordshire +12 6 £494 +9.72% 22
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (1.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (1.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.88%) Apache
Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (7.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.31%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.88%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.88%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (0.88%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.04%) Azure
2 11 (9.73%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (7.96%) AWS
4 6 (5.31%) GitHub
5 3 (2.65%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (2.65%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (1.77%) GCP
6 2 (1.77%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.65%) 3G
1 3 (2.65%) 4G
1 3 (2.65%) Radio Access Network
1 3 (2.65%) VPN
2 2 (1.77%) 2G
2 2 (1.77%) 5G
2 2 (1.77%) Firewall
2 2 (1.77%) MPLS
2 2 (1.77%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.88%) BGP
3 1 (0.88%) DSL
3 1 (0.88%) EIGRP
3 1 (0.88%) Ethernet
3 1 (0.88%) ICMP
3 1 (0.88%) Internet
3 1 (0.88%) OSPF
3 1 (0.88%) PPP
3 1 (0.88%) RIP
3 1 (0.88%) VoLTE
3 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.08%) SQL Server
2 5 (4.42%) MySQL
2 5 (4.42%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.54%) RDBMS
4 2 (1.77%) Azure SQL Database
4 2 (1.77%) Metadata
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Aurora
5 1 (0.88%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.88%) Neo4j
5 1 (0.88%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.88%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (8.85%) JIRA
2 3 (2.65%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 3 (2.65%) WebDriver
3 2 (1.77%) Git
3 2 (1.77%) REST Assured
3 2 (1.77%) SpecFlow
4 1 (0.88%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.88%) AppScan
4 1 (0.88%) Burp Suite
4 1 (0.88%) GitLab
4 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.88%) Postman
4 1 (0.88%) Selenium
4 1 (0.88%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.88%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.88%) SonarQube
4 1 (0.88%) Subversion
4 1 (0.88%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.88%) Xcode
General
1 58 (51.33%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.78%) Telecoms
3 19 (16.81%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.73%) Finance
5 7 (6.19%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (2.65%) Automotive
6 3 (2.65%) Billing
7 2 (1.77%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (1.77%) Legal
7 2 (1.77%) Marketing
7 2 (1.77%) Public Sector
7 2 (1.77%) Publishing
8 1 (0.88%) Aviation
8 1 (0.88%) Banking
8 1 (0.88%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.88%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 22 (19.47%) Build Engineer
2 21 (18.58%) Windows Build Engineer
2 21 (18.58%) Windows Engineer
3 14 (12.39%) Analyst
4 12 (10.62%) Project Manager
5 10 (8.85%) Developer
5 10 (8.85%) QA Analyst
5 10 (8.85%) Test Analyst
6 8 (7.08%) Architect
6 8 (7.08%) QA Test Analyst
7 7 (6.19%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.19%) Telecoms Manager
8 6 (5.31%) Tester
9 5 (4.42%) Lead
9 5 (4.42%) Site Engineer
10 4 (3.54%) Release Manager
10 4 (3.54%) Senior
10 4 (3.54%) Site Reliability Engineer
11 3 (2.65%) Senior Manager
11 3 (2.65%) Senior Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.19%) HTML
2 4 (3.54%) .NET
2 4 (3.54%) CSS
2 4 (3.54%) Node.js
2 4 (3.54%) React
3 3 (2.65%) Elastic Stack
3 3 (2.65%) React Native
4 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.77%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (1.77%) jQuery
4 2 (1.77%) XML
5 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.88%) ADO
5 1 (0.88%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.88%) Django
5 1 (0.88%) JSON
5 1 (0.88%) OAuth
5 1 (0.88%) OpenID
5 1 (0.88%) Playwright
5 1 (0.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.31%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (4.42%) Product Ownership
3 3 (2.65%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.65%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (1.77%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.77%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.77%) SCADA
5 1 (0.88%) CCTV
5 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
5 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.88%) iPad
5 1 (0.88%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 28 (24.78%) Windows
2 26 (23.01%) Windows Server
3 22 (19.47%) Windows Server 2016
4 21 (18.58%) Windows 10
4 21 (18.58%) Windows NT
4 21 (18.58%) Windows Server 2012
4 21 (18.58%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.54%) Linux
6 2 (1.77%) Android
7 1 (0.88%) Apple iOS
7 1 (0.88%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (25.66%) User Acceptance Testing
2 26 (23.01%) Agile
3 25 (22.12%) Release Management
4 24 (21.24%) ITIL
5 22 (19.47%) Customer Service
5 22 (19.47%) Service Management
6 21 (18.58%) Deployment Automation
7 18 (15.93%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.93%) Project Management
7 18 (15.93%) Test Automation
8 17 (15.04%) Continuous Improvement
9 16 (14.16%) Project Delivery
10 15 (13.27%) DevOps
11 13 (11.50%) Mentoring
12 11 (9.73%) Change Management
13 10 (8.85%) Project Planning
13 10 (8.85%) Scrum
14 9 (7.96%) Coaching
14 9 (7.96%) Roadmaps
14 9 (7.96%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 9 (7.96%) SQL
2 8 (7.08%) JavaScript
3 6 (5.31%) C#
4 5 (4.42%) Java
4 5 (4.42%) Python
5 3 (2.65%) F#
5 3 (2.65%) PowerShell
6 1 (0.88%) Bash
Qualifications
1 25 (22.12%) Security Cleared
2 22 (19.47%) DV Cleared
3 16 (14.16%) Degree
4 5 (4.42%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (2.65%) PMI Certification
5 3 (2.65%) PMP
5 3 (2.65%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.88%) BICSI Certification
6 1 (0.88%) BICSI RCDD
6 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.88%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.88%) CSSLP
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.88%) MBCS
6 1 (0.88%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.77%) Accessibility
1 2 (1.77%) ISO 14001
1 2 (1.77%) ISO 9001
1 2 (1.77%) PMO
1 2 (1.77%) SLA
2 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
2 1 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (19.47%) Active Directory
2 21 (18.58%) Firmware
3 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (18.58%) SCCM
1 21 (18.58%) Sysprep
1 21 (18.58%) WSUS
2 3 (2.65%) Ansible
2 3 (2.65%) Grafana
2 3 (2.65%) Graylog
2 3 (2.65%) Nagios
2 3 (2.65%) Prometheus
2 3 (2.65%) Terraform
3 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.88%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.88%) Nessus
4 1 (0.88%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.88%) Puppet
4 1 (0.88%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 29 (25.66%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.04%) Oracle
3 4 (3.54%) Atlassian
4 3 (2.65%) Splunk
5 2 (1.77%) Adobe
5 2 (1.77%) BT
5 2 (1.77%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.88%) ADVA
6 1 (0.88%) Cisco
6 1 (0.88%) Ericsson
6 1 (0.88%) Juniper
6 1 (0.88%) Mavenir
6 1 (0.88%) NEC
6 1 (0.88%) Nokia
6 1 (0.88%) Nokia Networks
6 1 (0.88%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.88%) Remedy
6 1 (0.88%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.88%) Tellabs
6 1 (0.88%) Veracode