QA Contracts in Hampshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 77 89 88
Rank change year-on-year +12 -1 -10
Contract jobs citing QA 10 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.87% 1.05% 1.85%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 8.70% 8.00% 13.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 10 23
10th Percentile £329 £406 £415
25th Percentile £351 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% -7.14% +31.25%
75th Percentile £419 £597 £563
90th Percentile £471 £618 £573
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £15.00 - -
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
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 115 175 255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 10.03% 13.12% 13.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 95 138
10th Percentile £200 £300 £185
25th Percentile £363 £450 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +14.61%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £575
90th Percentile £690 £667 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 20
10th Percentile £21.75 £15.21 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £15.31 £18.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £49.50 £30.12
Median % change year-on-year +41.41% +64.37% -7.34%
75th Percentile - £59.69 £52.01
90th Percentile - £60.00 £67.59
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 Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hampshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Hampshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Hampshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Hampshire

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Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hampshire 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
Havant +6 1 - - 1
Southampton - 1 £413 - 4
Farnborough - 1 £340 - 1
Aldershot - 1 £550 -
Fareham - 1 £375 - 4
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (10.00%) PHPUnit
2 1 (10.00%) Postman
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) French Language
3 1 (10.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Banking Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Product Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Product Business Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
3 1 (10.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Security Officer
3 1 (10.00%) Statistical Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Jest
1 1 (10.00%) OpenAPI
1 1 (10.00%) Playwright
1 1 (10.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
2 3 (30.00%) QA Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) API Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Statistics
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (20.00%) User Stories
4 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (10.00%) API Design
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Image Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Machine Learning
4 1 (10.00%) Microservices
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) CISM
2 1 (10.00%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (10.00%) NCSC
1 1 (10.00%) NIST 800
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Databricks