QA Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Quality Assurance (QA)
North East > Tyne and Wear

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 23 33 37
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing QA 7 23 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.88% 6.46% 3.05%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.56% 44.23% 24.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 10
10th Percentile £339 £431 £473
25th Percentile £383 £464 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £558 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.46% +11.50% +12.68%
75th Percentile £420 £588 £541
90th Percentile £461 - £552
North East median daily rate £415 £537 £500
% change year-on-year -22.65% +7.30% +12.68%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 45 52 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 18.52% 14.61% 12.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 38 36
10th Percentile £395 £275 £220
25th Percentile £440 £416 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £569 £588 £622
90th Percentile £620 £600 £714
North East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile £14.63 - -
25th Percentile £19.44 - £16.25
Median hourly rate £35.25 - £17.50
Median % change year-on-year - - -72.00%
75th Percentile £48.75 - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
North East median hourly rate £35.25 - £17.50
% change year-on-year - - -23.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in Tyne and Wear.

Hourly rate trend for QA in Tyne and Wear

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Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 25 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
Newcastle upon Tyne +7 6 £410 -26.46% 13
Sunderland - 1 - - 2
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North East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (14.29%) Adobe Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Google Analytics
1 1 (14.29%) Google Tag Manager
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Mixpanel
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) GitLab
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
1 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Automotive
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Test Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Telephony Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 1 (14.29%) Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
4 1 (14.29%) Governance Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Governance Manager
4 1 (14.29%) Lead
4 1 (14.29%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Portfolio Manager
4 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) Jest
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) BBC
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (42.86%) Functional Testing
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
1 3 (42.86%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Validation
2 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (14.29%) Agile
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics
3 1 (14.29%) API Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
3 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Product Management
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
3 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (14.29%) Web Analytics
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 3 (42.86%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Adobe
1 1 (14.29%) Google