QA Leader Contracts

Quality Assurance Lead
UK

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 554 679 762
Rank change year-on-year +125 +83 -97
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 32 43 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.073% 0.072% 0.078%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.076% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 29 47
10th Percentile £296 £412 £385
25th Percentile £459 £516 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £800 £666 £568
90th Percentile - £823 £643
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £423 £475
% change year-on-year +12.43% -11.05% +26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured QA Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Leader over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Leader.

Hourly rate trend for QA Leader in the UK

QA Leader
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the UK 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
England +109 28 £550 -8.33% 16
London +102 26 £600 -4.38% 6
Work from Home +124 13 £750 +57.89% 7
UK excluding London +65 3 £475 +12.43% 12
South East +11 1 - -
South West - 1 £475 - 2
Scotland - 1 - - 1

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, QA Leader 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 featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 32 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 12 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (37.50%) Data Protection
4 9 (28.13%) Python
4 9 (28.13%) Test Strategy
4 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
5 8 (25.00%) Git
6 7 (21.88%) Finance
7 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
7 6 (18.75%) 5G
8 5 (15.63%) Swift
8 5 (15.63%) Equities
8 5 (15.63%) Hedge funds
9 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
9 4 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
9 4 (12.50%) Agile
9 4 (12.50%) C++
9 4 (12.50%) Java
9 4 (12.50%) SDET
9 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
10 3 (9.38%) Bash
10 3 (9.38%) Test Planning
10 3 (9.38%) C
10 3 (9.38%) Banking
10 3 (9.38%) Selenium
11 2 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
11 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
11 2 (6.25%) Google
11 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.25%) Google Play
2 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (3.13%) GitHub
2 1 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.13%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) 5G
1 6 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (6.25%) VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (28.13%) Jenkins
2 8 (25.00%) Git
3 3 (9.38%) Selenium
4 2 (6.25%) Appium
4 2 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.13%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.13%) HP UFT
5 1 (3.13%) JIRA
5 1 (3.13%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 3 (9.38%) Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Billing
3 2 (6.25%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.25%) Social Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.13%) Local Government
4 1 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.13%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) Playwright
1 2 (6.25%) SwiftUI
2 1 (3.13%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.13%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 12 (37.50%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (15.63%) Equities
2 5 (15.63%) Hedge funds
3 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.13%) Derivative
4 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
4 1 (3.13%) Mobile Payment
4 1 (3.13%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.13%) Reinsurance
4 1 (3.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.25%) Android
1 2 (6.25%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.25%) Linux
1 2 (6.25%) Windows
2 1 (3.13%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (37.50%) Data Protection
3 9 (28.13%) Test Strategy
4 4 (12.50%) Agile
4 4 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (12.50%) SDET
5 3 (9.38%) Test Planning
6 2 (6.25%) BDD
6 2 (6.25%) Code Quality
6 2 (6.25%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (6.25%) E-Commerce
6 2 (6.25%) Migration
6 2 (6.25%) QA Automation
6 2 (6.25%) Risk Management
6 2 (6.25%) Software Testing
6 2 (6.25%) Test Scripting
6 2 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (6.25%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Python
2 5 (15.63%) Swift
3 4 (12.50%) C++
3 4 (12.50%) Java
4 3 (9.38%) Bash
4 3 (9.38%) C
5 2 (6.25%) R
6 1 (3.13%) C#
6 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.25%) ISEB
1 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.13%) PMP
2 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
2 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (6.25%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (6.25%) Apple
1 2 (6.25%) Google
2 1 (3.13%) Adobe
2 1 (3.13%) Citrix
2 1 (3.13%) HP
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft
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