QA Engineer Contracts in Wiltshire

Quality Assurance Engineer
South West > Wiltshire

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Wiltshire is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 May 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.46% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £575 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
75th Percentile £625 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £550 £61 -
% change year-on-year +796.20% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 387 852 1,022
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.97% 90.54% 93.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 643 850
10th Percentile £258 £276 £350
25th Percentile £458 £460 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £669
90th Percentile £688 £725 £723
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 13
10th Percentile £18.69 - £29.00
25th Percentile £18.87 £14.25 £60.00
Median hourly rate £22.01 £25.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.96% -61.83% +20.18%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £42.58 - £85.50
South West median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £64.15
% change year-on-year +13.64% -14.26% +35.04%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Wiltshire

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Wiltshire

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, QA Engineer 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 across the Wiltshire region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Bash

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Snyk
2 1 (50.00%) SonarQube
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevSecOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Static Code Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bash
1 1 (50.00%) Groovy
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform