QA Engineer Contracts in Manchester

Quality Assurance Engineer
North West > Manchester

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Manchester is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 110 126
Rank change year-on-year +19 +16 -26
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 6 2 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% 0.11% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.12% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 14
10th Percentile £456 - £418
25th Percentile - - £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £588
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -65.96% -
75th Percentile - - £615
90th Percentile - - £625
North West median daily rate £500 £200 £588
% change year-on-year +150.00% -65.96% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 1,380 1,717 2,574
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.57% 96.03% 97.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 1,279 2,005
10th Percentile £313 £313 £230
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% +2.56% +12.07%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £660
North West median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 47 61
10th Percentile £12.07 £14.49 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.31 £16.85 £14.25
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +12.50% +23.23%
75th Percentile £63.13 £39.80 £35.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £32.90 £29.65 £24.10
% change year-on-year +10.94% +23.03% +33.89%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Manchester

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 Manchester region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 4 (66.67%) Selenium
4 3 (50.00%) C#
4 3 (50.00%) SQL
4 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
4 3 (50.00%) Git
4 3 (50.00%) Azure
4 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
4 3 (50.00%) BDD
4 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
5 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
5 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
5 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (33.33%) GitHub
5 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (33.33%) Fintech
5 2 (33.33%) JIRA
5 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
5 2 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
5 2 (33.33%) Perfecto Mobile
5 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
5 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
5 2 (33.33%) Appium
5 2 (33.33%) GitLab

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) BrowserStack
2 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (33.33%) Sauce Labs
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (50.00%) Git
2 3 (50.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (33.33%) Appium
3 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 2 (33.33%) GitLab
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (16.67%) Artifactory
4 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
4 1 (16.67%) JMeter
4 1 (16.67%) Mercurial
4 1 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
4 1 (16.67%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) pytest
1 2 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (16.67%) Node.js
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) BDD
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (33.33%) Conversational AI
4 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
4 2 (33.33%) Fintech
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) QA Automation
4 2 (33.33%) SDET
4 2 (33.33%) TDD
4 2 (33.33%) Time Management
5 1 (16.67%) ATDD
5 1 (16.67%) OOP
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (16.67%) SOLID
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C#
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 2 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Perfecto Mobile
2 QA Engineer jobs in the North West