QA Leader Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Lead
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 502 610 730
Rank change year-on-year +108 +120 -119
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 29 36 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.080% 0.074% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.086% 0.079% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 34
10th Percentile £286 £433 £400
25th Percentile £418 £538 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £561
90th Percentile - £823 £634
UK median daily rate £575 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £68.75 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Leader in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Leader in England

QA Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +99 28 £550 -12.35% 6
South East +20 1 - - 1
QA Leader
UK

QA Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, QA Leader 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 England region featuring QA Leader in the job title.

1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (55.17%) Test Automation
3 13 (44.83%) Data Protection
3 13 (44.83%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (34.48%) Python
4 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
5 9 (31.03%) Git
6 7 (24.14%) Test Strategy
6 7 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (24.14%) 5G
7 6 (20.69%) Finance
8 5 (17.24%) Equities
8 5 (17.24%) C++
8 5 (17.24%) Hedge funds
8 5 (17.24%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (17.24%) Swift
9 4 (13.79%) SDET
9 4 (13.79%) Bash
9 4 (13.79%) C
10 3 (10.34%) Java
10 3 (10.34%) Agile
10 3 (10.34%) Banking
10 3 (10.34%) Manual Testing
10 3 (10.34%) Selenium
10 3 (10.34%) Test Planning
10 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
11 2 (6.90%) Appium
11 2 (6.90%) QA Automation
11 2 (6.90%) Playwright
11 2 (6.90%) R

QA Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) Google Play
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub
2 1 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.45%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (24.14%) 5G
1 7 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (6.90%) VPN
3 1 (3.45%) 4G
Development Applications
1 10 (34.48%) Jenkins
2 9 (31.03%) Git
3 3 (10.34%) Selenium
4 2 (6.90%) Appium
4 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) HP UFT
5 1 (3.45%) JIRA
5 1 (3.45%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (3.45%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (20.69%) Finance
2 3 (10.34%) Banking
3 2 (6.90%) Billing
3 2 (6.90%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.45%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) Playwright
1 2 (6.90%) SwiftUI
2 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (44.83%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (17.24%) Equities
2 5 (17.24%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.45%) Derivative
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.45%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Android
1 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
2 1 (3.45%) Linux
2 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) Test Automation
2 13 (44.83%) Data Protection
3 7 (24.14%) Test Strategy
4 5 (17.24%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (13.79%) SDET
6 3 (10.34%) Agile
6 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.34%) Manual Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Test Planning
7 2 (6.90%) Migration
7 2 (6.90%) QA Automation
7 2 (6.90%) Test Scripting
7 2 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (6.90%) Workflow
8 1 (3.45%) Coaching
8 1 (3.45%) Defect Management
8 1 (3.45%) Defect Tracking
8 1 (3.45%) DevOps
8 1 (3.45%) Mentoring
8 1 (3.45%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) Python
2 5 (17.24%) C++
2 5 (17.24%) Swift
3 4 (13.79%) Bash
3 4 (13.79%) C
4 3 (10.34%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) R
6 1 (3.45%) C#
6 1 (3.45%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.45%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (6.90%) ISEB
1 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Apple
1 2 (6.90%) Google
2 1 (3.45%) Citrix
2 1 (3.45%) HP