QA Contracts in Berkshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire 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 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 69 63
Rank change year-on-year +4 -6 -2
Contract jobs citing QA 46 51 72
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 2.87% 2.84% 3.08%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% 14.70% 20.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 30 38
10th Percentile £360 £350 £336
25th Percentile £465 £419 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -17.39% +29.94%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £625
90th Percentile £645 £594 £650
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 3
10th Percentile - £20.90 £21.40
25th Percentile £60.85 £24.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £61.71 £25.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +146.82% +4.17% +26.32%
75th Percentile £62.56 £62.50 £50.38
90th Percentile - £70.66 £65.60
South East median hourly rate £60.00 £50.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +20.00% +117.39% -54.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 184 347 355
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 11.49% 19.31% 15.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 176 193
10th Percentile £350 £153 £235
25th Percentile £450 £395 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.30%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £683 £675 £656
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 25 8
10th Percentile £60.75 £17.75 -
25th Percentile £60.80 £24.34 £21.00
Median hourly rate £61.80 £54.56 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.26% +153.77% +2.14%
75th Percentile £64.08 £73.59 £31.25
90th Percentile £64.73 £79.78 £57.73
South East median hourly rate £54.36 £50.53 £22.00
% change year-on-year +7.58% +129.67% -22.23%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Berkshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Berkshire over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Berkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Berkshire

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Reading +12 39 £500 -9.09% 7
Bracknell +4 1 - -
Slough +2 1 £450 - 1
Windsor -10 1 £625 +31.58%
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 (2.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (6.52%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Primavera
1 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
5 1 (2.17%) AWS
5 1 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (2.17%) GitHub
5 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.22%) BGP
1 7 (15.22%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (15.22%) MPLS
1 7 (15.22%) VPN
2 2 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) MongoDB
1 7 (15.22%) NoSQL
2 4 (8.70%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (6.52%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.52%) Delta Lake
4 1 (2.17%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (2.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) JIRA
2 8 (17.39%) GitLab
3 1 (2.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (2.17%) Git
3 1 (2.17%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (43.48%) Social Skills
2 17 (36.96%) Telecoms
3 12 (26.09%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (23.91%) Retail
5 5 (10.87%) Finance
6 2 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.17%) Games
7 1 (2.17%) Military
7 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (19.57%) Tester
2 7 (15.22%) Architect
2 7 (15.22%) Automation Tester
2 7 (15.22%) IT Manager
2 7 (15.22%) IT Operations Manager
2 7 (15.22%) Lead
2 7 (15.22%) Performance Manager
3 6 (13.04%) Operations Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
4 4 (8.70%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.70%) Telecoms Manager
5 3 (6.52%) Data Engineer
5 3 (6.52%) Lead Data Engineer
6 2 (4.35%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.35%) Sales Business Development Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Sales Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Supply Chain Manager
6 2 (4.35%) Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.22%) Gherkin
1 7 (15.22%) NETCONF
1 7 (15.22%) REST
1 7 (15.22%) RESTCONF
1 7 (15.22%) SOAP
1 7 (15.22%) YANG
2 5 (10.87%) JSON
2 5 (10.87%) Middleware
2 5 (10.87%) Web Services
2 5 (10.87%) XML
3 3 (6.52%) PySpark
4 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (2.17%) Node.js
4 1 (2.17%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) TM Forum
2 2 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.17%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.17%) PlayStation
3 1 (2.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.22%) CentOS
1 7 (15.22%) Linux
1 7 (15.22%) Unix
2 1 (2.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (45.65%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) CI/CD
3 10 (21.74%) Project Delivery
3 10 (21.74%) Scrum
4 9 (19.57%) Infrastructure as Code
5 8 (17.39%) Customer Experience
5 8 (17.39%) Migration
5 8 (17.39%) Test Automation
5 8 (17.39%) Workflow
6 7 (15.22%) BDD
6 7 (15.22%) Containerisation
6 7 (15.22%) Data Migration
6 7 (15.22%) Microservices
6 7 (15.22%) Network Virtualisation
6 7 (15.22%) Project Management
6 7 (15.22%) Test Strategy
7 6 (13.04%) Configuration Management
7 6 (13.04%) ITIL
8 5 (10.87%) Balanced Scorecard
8 5 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (28.26%) Python
2 11 (23.91%) SQL
3 3 (6.52%) T-SQL
4 2 (4.35%) R
5 1 (2.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.04%) Degree
2 3 (6.52%) DV Cleared
2 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) PMO
2 2 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.17%) Accessibility
System Software
1 7 (15.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (15.22%) Cisco
2 5 (10.87%) Dynatrace
2 5 (10.87%) Splunk
3 4 (8.70%) Databricks
3 4 (8.70%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.35%) BT
4 2 (4.35%) Google
4 2 (4.35%) Planview
4 2 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.17%) Sony
5 1 (2.17%) Virgin Media