Quality Analyst Contracts

Quality Analyst
UK

The median Quality Analyst daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 552 647
Rank change year-on-year +11 +95 +174
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Analyst 12 18 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.036% 0.046% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.049% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 23
10th Percentile £275 £415 £207
25th Percentile £344 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% +2.50% +25.00%
75th Percentile £528 £600 £519
90th Percentile £621 - £645
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £438 £475
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +137.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 30,107 36,433 50,404
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.93% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,087 23,537 34,777
10th Percentile £282 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,495 2,061 1,513
10th Percentile £13.62 £14.16 £14.50
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.05 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
% change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%

Quality Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Analyst over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Analyst in the UK

Quality Analyst
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Quality Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 2025. 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 +8 11 £400 -23.81% 25
UK excluding London +13 8 £425 -2.86% 19
South East +31 4 £313 -37.50% 4
London -10 4 £400 -23.81% 9
Work from Home +23 2 £375 -16.67% 9
North of England - 2 £481 - 5
North East - 1 £613 -
North West - 1 £350 - 5
East of England - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 £600 - 1

Quality Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 4 August 2025, Quality 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 featuring Quality Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (41.67%) SQL
4 3 (25.00%) IBM Domino
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) Databricks
4 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 3 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
4 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Data Privacy
5 2 (16.67%) Case Management
5 2 (16.67%) Data Management
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
6 1 (8.33%) Validation
6 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (8.33%) Firewall
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Java
6 1 (8.33%) SAP

Quality Analyst 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 3 (25.00%) IBM Domino
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) LAN
1 1 (8.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Metadata
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Appium
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
1 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (8.33%) Data Fabric
1 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
1 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Android
1 1 (8.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 3 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 3 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (16.67%) Case Management
2 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 2 (16.67%) Data Management
2 2 (16.67%) Data Privacy
2 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
2 2 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (16.67%) Quality Management
2 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
3 1 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (8.33%) CRM
3 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (8.33%) Network Design
3 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (41.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) R
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CCNA
1 1 (8.33%) CCNP
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) GDPR
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Cisco
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) SAP
2 1 (8.33%) Talend