QA Contracts in Warwickshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warwickshire requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 28 40
Rank change year-on-year -1 +12 +4
Contract jobs citing QA 13 17 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Warwickshire 4.21% 5.03% 1.52%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 15.66% 25.00% 6.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 6
10th Percentile £300 £563 £180
25th Percentile £345 £593 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £607 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.04% +15.62% +22.09%
75th Percentile £525 £688 £538
90th Percentile £548 - £556
West Midlands median daily rate £460 £525 £422
% change year-on-year -12.38% +24.41% -1.86%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Warwickshire

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 83 68 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 26.86% 20.12% 22.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 47 58
10th Percentile £234 £425 £325
25th Percentile £235 £441 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -26.09% +4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £538 £688 £680
90th Percentile £600 £750 £781
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +8.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 10 0
10th Percentile - £13.00 -
25th Percentile £14.70 £13.18 -
Median hourly rate £21.44 £14.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +53.14% - -
75th Percentile £28.18 £14.50 -
90th Percentile - £14.70 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £14.00 £16.10
% change year-on-year +101.29% -13.04% -5.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Warwickshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Warwickshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Warwickshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Warwickshire

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Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warwick -11 9 £400 -34.10% 6
Stratford-upon-Avon - 1 £425 - 3
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West Midlands

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Warwickshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.69%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) LAN
1 2 (15.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) SQL Server
2 2 (15.38%) Relational Database
3 1 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) Plastic SCM
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (23.08%) Games
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Games Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Administrator
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) Applications Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Architect
4 1 (7.69%) AS400 Analyst Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Programmer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) .NET
1 3 (23.08%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Apache Axis
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.69%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (7.69%) Django
2 1 (7.69%) Entity Framework
2 1 (7.69%) Flask
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Management Information System
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) AS400
3 1 (7.69%) CCTV
3 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
3 1 (7.69%) iSeries
3 1 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (38.46%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
2 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (53.85%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) CI/CD
2 6 (46.15%) ITIL
3 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 4 (30.77%) Architectural Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) Design Patterns
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
4 4 (30.77%) User Experience
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Deployment
5 3 (23.08%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (23.08%) Data Management
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Project Management
5 3 (23.08%) Project Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Roadmaps
5 3 (23.08%) Software Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) C#
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Ruby
2 1 (7.69%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) CompTIA Security+
2 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) CISSP
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
1 1 (7.69%) Siemens