QA Contracts in the South West

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 97 106
Rank change year-on-year +36 +9 -26
Contract jobs citing QA 100 68 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.17% 1.96% 1.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 17.73% 17.62% 15.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 56 47
10th Percentile £161 £275 £313
25th Percentile £456 £363 £371
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £465 £480
Median % change year-on-year +18.28% -3.13% -4.00%
75th Percentile £706 £625 £619
90th Percentile £769 £714 £656
England median daily rate £525 £501 £500
% change year-on-year +4.79% +0.20% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 3
10th Percentile £12.43 £21.20 -
25th Percentile £12.43 £26.00 £52.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £34.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.82% -37.04% -
75th Percentile £72.83 £42.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £46.80 -
England median hourly rate £15.38 £22.49 £47.50
% change year-on-year -31.60% -52.66% +150.00%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 564 386 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 17.89% 11.12% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 272 296
10th Percentile £263 £250 £190
25th Percentile £410 £400 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £736 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 44 21
10th Percentile £12.43 £18.09 £47.41
25th Percentile £35.00 £51.34 £52.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +3.17% +26.00%
75th Percentile £70.00 £79.81 £69.83
90th Percentile £71.25 £83.40 £79.04
England median hourly rate £22.50 £37.50 £29.50
% change year-on-year -40.00% +27.12% +40.48%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the South West.

Daily rate trend for QA in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the South West

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in the South West over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Bristol +20 29 £600 +32.60% 33
Gloucestershire +3 20 £688 +150.00% 17
Somerset +14 12 £398 -24.29% 29
Dorset +5 8 £763 +22.00% 12
Wiltshire -5 6 £533 -11.25% 18
Devon +3 5 £61 - 15
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (5.00%) Apache
2 4 (4.00%) Apache Solr
2 4 (4.00%) nginx
2 4 (4.00%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.00%) Confluence
4 1 (1.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 15 (15.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (6.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (1.00%) InVision
4 1 (1.00%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 3 (3.00%) Adobe Campaign
2 2 (2.00%) Primavera
3 1 (1.00%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 33 (33.00%) Azure
2 16 (16.00%) Power Platform
3 13 (13.00%) Azure Data Factory
4 11 (11.00%) AWS
5 6 (6.00%) GCP
6 4 (4.00%) Entra ID
7 2 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.00%) PaaS
8 1 (1.00%) SaaS
8 1 (1.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.00%) LAN
1 6 (6.00%) WAN
2 4 (4.00%) DNS
2 4 (4.00%) HTTPS
2 4 (4.00%) IPsec
2 4 (4.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (14.00%) Power BI
1 14 (14.00%) SQL Server
2 13 (13.00%) Relational Database
2 13 (13.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 12 (12.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 12 (12.00%) Tableau
4 7 (7.00%) NoSQL
5 5 (5.00%) MySQL
6 4 (4.00%) Couchbase
7 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (1.00%) Apache Hive
8 1 (1.00%) Big Data
8 1 (1.00%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.00%) Delta Lake
8 1 (1.00%) Hadoop
8 1 (1.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) GitLab
2 3 (3.00%) Artifactory
2 3 (3.00%) JIRA
3 2 (2.00%) Selenium
4 1 (1.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.00%) Git
4 1 (1.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.00%) JUnit
4 1 (1.00%) Maven
4 1 (1.00%) TestRail
General
1 29 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.00%) Finance
3 13 (13.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (4.00%) Banking
4 4 (4.00%) Legal
4 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 4 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (3.00%) Marketing
6 2 (2.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 15 (15.00%) Architect
2 13 (13.00%) Data Engineer
2 13 (13.00%) Developer
3 11 (11.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 10 (10.00%) Administrator
5 8 (8.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 8 (8.00%) Senior
6 7 (7.00%) Analyst
7 6 (6.00%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.00%) QA Engineer
8 5 (5.00%) Test Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) QA Specialist
9 4 (4.00%) Quality Engineer
9 4 (4.00%) Security Analyst
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Senior Test Architect
9 4 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
10 3 (3.00%) Development Specialist
10 3 (3.00%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.00%) AngularJS
1 12 (12.00%) Spring
2 11 (11.00%) React
3 5 (5.00%) Apache NiFi
3 5 (5.00%) REST
4 4 (4.00%) JSON
4 4 (4.00%) LEMP Stack
4 4 (4.00%) Middleware
4 4 (4.00%) RabbitMQ
4 4 (4.00%) SailPoint
4 4 (4.00%) YAML
5 2 (2.00%) CSS
5 2 (2.00%) HTML
6 1 (1.00%) Laravel
6 1 (1.00%) Node.js
6 1 (1.00%) PySpark
6 1 (1.00%) RESTful
6 1 (1.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 6 (6.00%) Public Cloud
4 5 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 4 (4.00%) Cloud Native
5 4 (4.00%) Life Science
6 3 (3.00%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (15.00%) Windows
2 8 (8.00%) Linux
3 4 (4.00%) CentOS
3 4 (4.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Agile
2 25 (25.00%) DevOps
3 19 (19.00%) Project Management
4 18 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (17.00%) Translating Business Requirements
6 14 (14.00%) Performance Optimisation
6 14 (14.00%) Unit Testing
7 13 (13.00%) Business Intelligence
7 13 (13.00%) Change Management
7 13 (13.00%) ETL
7 13 (13.00%) Programme Management
8 12 (12.00%) Data Modelling
9 11 (11.00%) Full Stack Development
9 11 (11.00%) OO
9 11 (11.00%) OOP
9 11 (11.00%) SDLC
9 11 (11.00%) Secure Coding
9 11 (11.00%) Software Architecture
10 10 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (9.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.00%) SQL
2 16 (16.00%) Python
3 12 (12.00%) C
3 12 (12.00%) Java
3 12 (12.00%) T-SQL
4 8 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.00%) PHP
6 4 (4.00%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.00%) Fortran
7 1 (1.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 44 (44.00%) Security Cleared
2 27 (27.00%) SC Cleared
3 18 (18.00%) DV Cleared
4 12 (12.00%) Degree
5 7 (7.00%) ISTQB
6 6 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (4.00%) HND
8 3 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.00%) Accessibility
1 5 (5.00%) GDPR
2 4 (4.00%) GMP
2 4 (4.00%) HIPAA
2 4 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (4.00%) NIST
3 3 (3.00%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (1.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
5 1 (1.00%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 4 (4.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (8.00%) Ansible
1 8 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 8 (8.00%) Terraform
2 1 (1.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 14 (14.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.00%) Adobe
3 4 (4.00%) CyberArk
3 4 (4.00%) Google
3 4 (4.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (3.00%) Oracle
4 3 (3.00%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.00%) BT
5 1 (1.00%) Cloudera
5 1 (1.00%) Databricks
5 1 (1.00%) FIS
5 1 (1.00%) SAP