Software Quality Assurance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Software Quality Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 442 496
Rank change year-on-year +54 +54 -77
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 3 14 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.058% 0.042%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.096% 0.39% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 8
10th Percentile £379 £200 £381
25th Percentile £403 £297 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £438
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% - -20.45%
75th Percentile £528 £525 £519
90th Percentile £556 £556 £656
UK median daily rate £408 £450 £438
% change year-on-year -9.44% +2.86% -20.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.18
25th Percentile - - £47.65
Median hourly rate - - £50.10
75th Percentile - - £52.55
90th Percentile - - £54.02
UK median hourly rate - £50.00 £50.10
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -14.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 3,126 3,568 4,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 15.13% 14.82% 14.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,819 2,401 3,084
10th Percentile £252 £213 £203
25th Percentile £363 £363 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £567
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -2.86% +2.44% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 180 195
10th Percentile £10.95 £12.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.21 £15.00
Median hourly rate £18.00 £36.25 £21.05
Median % change year-on-year -50.34% +72.21% -
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £67.38 £77.50 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £20.61 £37.50 £28.50
% change year-on-year -45.05% +31.58% +35.39%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the UK excluding London

Software Quality Assurance
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 Software Quality Assurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South West +14 2 £463 +23.33%
Scotland +30 1 - - 1
Software Quality Assurance
UK

Software Quality Assurance
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle ERP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Black-Box Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Conflict Resolution
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Situational Awareness
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle