Senior QA Analyst Contracts

Senior Quality Assurance Analyst
UK

The median Senior Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 699 855
Rank change year-on-year +129 +156 -185
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Analyst 9 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.002% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.002% 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 1 5
10th Percentile £453 - £452
25th Percentile £463 - £585
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -15.38% +102.97%
75th Percentile £500 - -
90th Percentile - - £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 -
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Senior QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Analyst in the UK

Senior QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior QA Analyst in the UK

Senior QA Analyst
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior QA Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +122 9 £475 -13.64% 3
UK excluding London +77 9 £475 -13.64% 3
North of England +34 8 £488 -11.36% 2
North West +27 8 £488 -11.36% 2
East of England - 1 £425 -

Senior QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior QA Analyst in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
1 9 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (100.00%) Power BI
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 9 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
2 7 (77.78%) Data Lake
2 7 (77.78%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (66.67%) SAS
3 6 (66.67%) Trillium
3 6 (66.67%) Python
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
3 6 (66.67%) Dataiku
3 6 (66.67%) Collibra
3 6 (66.67%) Ataccama
3 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
3 6 (66.67%) Alteryx
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 6 (66.67%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
4 5 (55.56%) Data Mining
4 5 (55.56%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
5 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management

Senior QA 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 6 (66.67%) SAS
Cloud Services
1 9 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 9 (100.00%) Snowflake
2 6 (66.67%) Collibra
2 6 (66.67%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Power BI
2 7 (77.78%) Data Lake
3 6 (66.67%) Ataccama
3 6 (66.67%) Qlik Sense
3 6 (66.67%) SQL Server
4 5 (55.56%) Data Mining
5 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (66.67%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 7 (77.78%) Pharmaceutical
2 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Business Intelligence
1 9 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 9 (100.00%) Data Management
2 7 (77.78%) Data Governance
3 6 (66.67%) Data Architecture
4 5 (55.56%) Data Cleansing
4 5 (55.56%) Visualisation
5 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (66.67%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) SAP
2 6 (66.67%) Alteryx
2 6 (66.67%) Dataiku
2 6 (66.67%) Trillium