QA Contracts in Surrey

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 41 61 44
Rank change year-on-year +20 -17 +8
Contract jobs citing QA 16 19 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 3.43% 2.49% 3.73%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.33% 12.67% 23.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 26
10th Percentile - £247 £225
25th Percentile £350 £403 £283
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £515
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -17.48% +5.64%
75th Percentile £591 £675 £584
90th Percentile £750 £700 £641
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £35.83 -
25th Percentile £57.50 £38.19 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £42.25 -
Median % change year-on-year +42.01% - -
75th Percentile £62.50 £46.19 -
90th Percentile - £48.48 -
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
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 75 150 133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 16.09% 19.63% 16.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 117 104
10th Percentile £275 £162 £227
25th Percentile £359 £413 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £560 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% +6.67% +27.27%
75th Percentile £556 £658 £646
90th Percentile £715 £688 £784
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 0
10th Percentile £26.84 £43.85 -
25th Percentile £36.65 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £53.00 £73.31 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.70% - -
75th Percentile £57.75 £76.53 -
90th Percentile £60.60 £76.90 -
South East median hourly rate £54.36 £50.53 £22.00
% change year-on-year +7.58% +129.67% -22.23%

QA
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Surrey

QA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Surrey

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Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Surrey

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Surrey

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Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Surrey 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
Leatherhead +8 3 - - 1
Redhill - 3 £350 -
Guildford +8 1 £700 - 4
Egham 0 1 £475 -15.18% 1
Woking -4 1 £700 +3.70%
Camberley - 1 - - 2
Reigate - 1 - - 1
QA
South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 3 (18.75%) Confluence
2 2 (12.50%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Cosmos DB
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Service Bus
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) Firewall
2 3 (18.75%) TCP/IP
3 2 (12.50%) LAN
3 2 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (6.25%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) TestRail
3 1 (6.25%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Mocha
3 1 (6.25%) MSBuild
3 1 (6.25%) Octopus Deploy
3 1 (6.25%) Selenium
3 1 (6.25%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 6 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 5 (31.25%) Marketing
4 3 (18.75%) Automotive
5 2 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (6.25%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 4 (25.00%) Senior
2 4 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Senior QA Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Systems Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Technical Architect
3 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Unix Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Unix Systems Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Azure Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Writer
5 1 (6.25%) Business Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Desktop Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) QA Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (25.00%) ADO
2 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
3 1 (6.25%) .NET Core
3 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET
3 1 (6.25%) CSS
3 1 (6.25%) HTML
3 1 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) Web Services
3 1 (6.25%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.25%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) Unix
2 3 (18.75%) Windows
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) SDLC
4 6 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
6 4 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (25.00%) ERP
6 4 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Functional Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Project Planning
7 3 (18.75%) Scrum
7 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
7 3 (18.75%) TDD
7 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
8 2 (12.50%) Analytics
8 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Machine Learning
8 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) C
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) Python
1 4 (25.00%) VBScript
2 3 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) VB
4 1 (6.25%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 5 (31.25%) ISTQB
3 4 (25.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (18.75%) HNC
4 3 (18.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (6.25%) CBAP
5 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (6.25%) MBA
5 1 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.25%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
1 1 (6.25%) HL7
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.25%) NFS
1 1 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
1 1 (6.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (25.00%) Micro Focus
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Databricks
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) VMware