QA Contracts in Manchester

Quality Assurance (QA)
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 48 73
Rank change year-on-year 0 +25 -13
Contract jobs citing QA 49 61 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 3.40% 3.42% 2.78%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.40% 23.83% 21.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 67
10th Percentile £413 £316 £313
25th Percentile £475 £388 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% - -3.41%
75th Percentile £694 £511 £550
90th Percentile - £575 £606
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £18.73 - -
25th Percentile £26.86 £21.25 -
Median hourly rate £41.66 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.14% - -
75th Percentile £57.70 £23.75 -
90th Percentile £66.58 - -
North West median hourly rate £19.29 £22.50 £57.27
% change year-on-year -14.29% -60.71% +43.07%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Manchester

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 229 256 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 15.88% 14.35% 13.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 180 279
10th Percentile £333 £340 £263
25th Percentile £425 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.27% +3.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £636 £600 £625
90th Percentile £694 £650 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £463
% change year-on-year +5.26% +2.70% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 17
10th Percentile £12.84 £18.47 £11.59
25th Percentile £13.19 £21.25 £11.75
Median hourly rate £37.13 £30.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.78% +9.09% +116.88%
75th Percentile £68.78 £39.60 £75.00
90th Percentile £72.14 £63.84 £81.00
North West median hourly rate £12.42 £38.55 £41.15
% change year-on-year -67.78% -6.32% +174.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Manchester

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in Manchester over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Oldham - 1 £450 -
Salford - 1 £425 - 3
Stockport - 1 - - 2
QA
North West

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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 4 (8.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Apache Spark
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
3 1 (2.04%) Alfresco
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.16%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (32.65%) AWS
1 16 (32.65%) Azure
2 10 (20.41%) Amazon EC2
2 10 (20.41%) Amazon S3
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon ECR
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon EKS
3 8 (16.33%) Amazon SQS
3 8 (16.33%) Route 53
3 8 (16.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 6 (12.24%) Power Platform
5 5 (10.20%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
6 4 (8.16%) OCI
7 3 (6.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 3 (6.12%) GitHub
8 2 (4.08%) Amazon ELB
8 2 (4.08%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (4.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (4.08%) BrowserStack
8 2 (4.08%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.33%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (10.20%) NoSQL
3 3 (6.12%) Data Lake
3 3 (6.12%) MySQL
3 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (4.08%) DynamoDB
4 2 (4.08%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.04%) Azkaban
5 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.04%) Delta Lake
5 1 (2.04%) Hadoop
5 1 (2.04%) Metadata
5 1 (2.04%) Power BI
5 1 (2.04%) Spark SQL
Development Applications
1 10 (20.41%) GitLab
2 8 (16.33%) webpack
3 6 (12.24%) Git
4 5 (10.20%) JIRA
5 4 (8.16%) Selenium
5 4 (8.16%) TeamCity
6 3 (6.12%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.12%) Mocha
6 3 (6.12%) Octopus Deploy
7 2 (4.08%) AdminStudio
7 2 (4.08%) Appium
7 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
7 2 (4.08%) InstallShield
7 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
7 2 (4.08%) MSI
7 2 (4.08%) Postman
7 2 (4.08%) SonarQube
7 2 (4.08%) Zephyr
8 1 (2.04%) JMeter
General
1 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.16%) Banking
2 4 (8.16%) Retail
3 3 (6.12%) Law
3 3 (6.12%) Legal
4 2 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (4.08%) Finance
4 2 (4.08%) Marketing
4 2 (4.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.04%) Aviation
5 1 (2.04%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Architect
3 6 (12.24%) Analyst
3 6 (12.24%) Lead
3 6 (12.24%) QA Engineer
4 4 (8.16%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Pega Architect
4 4 (8.16%) Security Analyst
4 4 (8.16%) Systems Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Technical Leader
5 3 (6.12%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) C# Developer
5 3 (6.12%) QA Automation Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Solutions Architect
5 3 (6.12%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Test Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Applications Packager
6 2 (4.08%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) QA Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (26.53%) React
2 11 (22.45%) Node.js
2 11 (22.45%) Redux
3 8 (16.33%) Express.js
4 5 (10.20%) SOAP
5 4 (8.16%) .NET
5 4 (8.16%) REST
5 4 (8.16%) SailPoint
6 3 (6.12%) Jest
7 2 (4.08%) pytest
7 2 (4.08%) WebdriverIO
8 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
8 1 (2.04%) Gherkin
8 1 (2.04%) HTML
8 1 (2.04%) Kafka
8 1 (2.04%) Playwright
8 1 (2.04%) Puppeteer
8 1 (2.04%) PySpark
8 1 (2.04%) Spring Boot
8 1 (2.04%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.08%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.04%) CCTV
3 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.04%) IoT
3 1 (2.04%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Windows
1 2 (4.08%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (46.94%) Test Automation
2 19 (38.78%) CI/CD
3 13 (26.53%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) API Development
4 11 (22.45%) Containerisation
4 11 (22.45%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (22.45%) QA Automation
5 10 (20.41%) DevOps
5 10 (20.41%) ETL
5 10 (20.41%) Full Stack Development
6 9 (18.37%) Design Patterns
6 9 (18.37%) Front End Development
7 8 (16.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 8 (16.33%) Customer Engagement
7 8 (16.33%) End-to-End Testing
8 7 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
8 7 (14.29%) Unit Testing
9 6 (12.24%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (12.24%) Cybersecurity
10 5 (10.20%) Identity Access Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (18.37%) C#
2 8 (16.33%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) Java
3 7 (14.29%) Python
4 6 (12.24%) PowerShell
5 3 (6.12%) Bash
6 2 (4.08%) Go
6 2 (4.08%) JavaScript
6 2 (4.08%) PHP
6 2 (4.08%) VB
7 1 (2.04%) Apex Code
7 1 (2.04%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (18.37%) SC Cleared
1 9 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (2.04%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.12%) GDPR
1 3 (6.12%) SLA
2 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
2 2 (4.08%) ISO 22301
2 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.04%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 17025
3 1 (2.04%) ISO17020
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Docker
2 4 (8.16%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.08%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (26.53%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) HP Fortify
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.08%) SCCM
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Pega
3 4 (8.16%) CyberArk
3 4 (8.16%) Oracle
4 3 (6.12%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) Perfecto Mobile
5 2 (4.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) Databricks
6 1 (2.04%) HubSpot