QA Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 421 474
Rank change year-on-year +59 +53 -66
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 28 22 33
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.094% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.100% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 15 25
10th Percentile £400 £263 £268
25th Percentile £463 £276 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £422 £405
Median % change year-on-year +18.48% +4.20% +15.71%
75th Percentile £509 £438 £430
90th Percentile £518 £448 £488
UK median daily rate £479 £628 £428
% change year-on-year -23.63% +46.61% +18.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,948 22,031 29,122
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 94.29% 95.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,552 15,391 20,383
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,261 1,134 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +112.16% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.16
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
North of England +40 12 £500 +12.68% 2
South East +26 10 £505 - 4
North West +20 9 £488 +9.86%
Midlands +19 4 £400 +37.93%
West Midlands +7 3 £400 -4.76%
Yorkshire - 3 £517 - 2
East Midlands +19 1 £380 +31.03%
Scotland - 1 £550 -
East of England - 1 £425 -
Wales - 1 £550 -
QA Analyst
UK

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, QA Analyst 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
3 12 (42.86%) Azure
4 11 (39.29%) DevOps
4 11 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (39.29%) SAP
4 11 (39.29%) Agile
5 10 (35.71%) Data Management
5 10 (35.71%) Data Analysis
5 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
5 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
5 10 (35.71%) Power Platform
5 10 (35.71%) Snowflake
5 10 (35.71%) Power BI
5 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
5 10 (35.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
7 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (28.57%) Oracle
7 8 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
7 8 (28.57%) Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (28.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 8 (28.57%) Data Governance
7 8 (28.57%) Data Lake
8 7 (25.00%) Collibra
8 7 (25.00%) Ataccama
8 7 (25.00%) Power Automate
8 7 (25.00%) Dataiku
8 7 (25.00%) Alteryx

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 7 (25.00%) SAS
2 2 (7.14%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (42.86%) Azure
2 11 (39.29%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (35.71%) Power Platform
3 10 (35.71%) Snowflake
4 7 (25.00%) Collibra
4 7 (25.00%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (35.71%) Power BI
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server
2 8 (28.57%) Data Lake
3 7 (25.00%) Ataccama
3 7 (25.00%) Qlik Sense
4 6 (21.43%) Data Mining
5 3 (10.71%) Relational Database
6 2 (7.14%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
3 3 (10.71%) Postman
3 3 (10.71%) Selenium
3 3 (10.71%) Visual Studio
4 2 (7.14%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.57%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (46.43%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 6 (21.43%) Organisational Skills
4 3 (10.71%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.57%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (39.29%) Agile
1 11 (39.29%) DevOps
2 10 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (35.71%) Data Analysis
2 10 (35.71%) Data Management
3 9 (32.14%) Test Automation
4 8 (28.57%) Data Governance
4 8 (28.57%) Procure-to-Pay
4 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (25.00%) Data Architecture
6 6 (21.43%) Data Cleansing
6 6 (21.43%) Test Management
6 6 (21.43%) Visualisation
7 5 (17.86%) Scrum
8 4 (14.29%) Software Testing
8 4 (14.29%) Test Strategy
9 3 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (10.71%) Defect Tracking
9 3 (10.71%) Functional Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) Python
3 4 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (17.86%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 3 (10.71%) ISEB
4 1 (3.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (35.71%) Data Quality
3 2 (7.14%) Accessibility
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) SAP
2 8 (28.57%) Oracle
3 7 (25.00%) Alteryx
3 7 (25.00%) Dataiku
3 7 (25.00%) Trillium
4 4 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.14%) Adobe
6 1 (3.57%) Ariba
6 1 (3.57%) ServiceNow