QA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 72 72 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 +10 -17
Contract jobs citing QA 58 70 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.71% 2.63% 2.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.72% 16.06% 19.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 41 75
10th Percentile £240 £304 £360
25th Percentile £353 £350 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% -17.39% +23.59%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £625
90th Percentile £638 £594 £650
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 5
10th Percentile - £23.30 £16.05
25th Percentile £60.85 £25.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £61.71 £50.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.41% +108.33% +26.32%
75th Percentile £62.56 - £67.36
90th Percentile - £65.22 £72.39
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
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 267 436 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 12.48% 16.41% 14.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 235 372
10th Percentile £254 £149 £213
25th Percentile £385 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -4.49%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £585
90th Percentile £651 £700 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 31 15
10th Percentile £15.22 £18.50 £11.36
25th Percentile £48.17 £24.42 £12.88
Median hourly rate £61.71 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.41% +138.10% -0.24%
75th Percentile £64.08 £71.25 £24.00
90th Percentile £64.73 £79.78 £60.42
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 the Thames Valley

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +4 46 £500 +5.26% 14
Oxfordshire +9 7 £400 +233.33% 11
Buckinghamshire +3 5 £375 +7.14% 7
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 1 (1.72%) Apache
1 1 (1.72%) Confluence
1 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
1 1 (1.72%) Tomcat
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Primavera
1 1 (1.72%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.07%) Azure
2 4 (6.90%) Azure Data Factory
2 4 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.45%) AWS
3 2 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (1.72%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.72%) Figma
4 1 (1.72%) GitHub
4 1 (1.72%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.07%) BGP
1 7 (12.07%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (12.07%) MPLS
1 7 (12.07%) VPN
2 2 (3.45%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.72%) Firewall
3 1 (1.72%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.07%) MongoDB
1 7 (12.07%) NoSQL
2 4 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (5.17%) Data Lake
3 3 (5.17%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.72%) MariaDB
4 1 (1.72%) MySQL
4 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.72%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) JIRA
2 9 (15.52%) GitLab
3 2 (3.45%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.45%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Selenium
4 1 (1.72%) Axure RP
4 1 (1.72%) Jenkins
4 1 (1.72%) JUnit
4 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.72%) Subversion
4 1 (1.72%) TestRail
General
1 27 (46.55%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Telecoms
3 14 (24.14%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (18.97%) Retail
5 8 (13.79%) Finance
6 3 (5.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Back Office
8 1 (1.72%) Games
8 1 (1.72%) Military
8 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (17.24%) Tester
2 8 (13.79%) Lead
3 7 (12.07%) Architect
3 7 (12.07%) Automation Tester
3 7 (12.07%) IT Manager
3 7 (12.07%) IT Operations Manager
3 7 (12.07%) Performance Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Operations Manager
4 6 (10.34%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Analyst
5 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
5 4 (6.90%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (6.90%) Telecoms Manager
6 3 (5.17%) Data Engineer
6 3 (5.17%) Lead Data Engineer
7 2 (3.45%) Mac Administrator
7 2 (3.45%) Sales Business Development Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Sales Manager
7 2 (3.45%) Supply Chain Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.79%) REST
2 7 (12.07%) Gherkin
2 7 (12.07%) NETCONF
2 7 (12.07%) RESTCONF
2 7 (12.07%) SOAP
2 7 (12.07%) YANG
3 6 (10.34%) JSON
3 6 (10.34%) Web Services
3 6 (10.34%) XML
4 5 (8.62%) Middleware
5 3 (5.17%) PySpark
6 2 (3.45%) RESTful
7 1 (1.72%) ADO
7 1 (1.72%) CSS
7 1 (1.72%) HTML
7 1 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.72%) Node.js
7 1 (1.72%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.62%) TM Forum
2 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.72%) LIMS
4 1 (1.72%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.72%) PlayStation
4 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (13.79%) Linux
1 8 (13.79%) Unix
2 7 (12.07%) CentOS
3 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.45%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (44.83%) Agile
2 15 (25.86%) CI/CD
3 11 (18.97%) Migration
3 11 (18.97%) Project Delivery
3 11 (18.97%) Scrum
3 11 (18.97%) Test Automation
4 9 (15.52%) Customer Experience
4 9 (15.52%) Infrastructure as Code
4 9 (15.52%) Project Management
4 9 (15.52%) Test Strategy
5 8 (13.79%) BDD
5 8 (13.79%) Data Migration
5 8 (13.79%) Microservices
5 8 (13.79%) Workflow
6 7 (12.07%) Containerisation
6 7 (12.07%) DevOps
6 7 (12.07%) Network Virtualisation
6 7 (12.07%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (12.07%) User Acceptance Testing
7 6 (10.34%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.41%) Python
2 12 (20.69%) SQL
3 3 (5.17%) T-SQL
4 2 (3.45%) R
5 1 (1.72%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.34%) Degree
2 3 (5.17%) DV Cleared
2 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.72%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (1.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.90%) PMO
2 3 (5.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) WCAG
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.45%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (3.45%) Terraform
2 1 (1.72%) Ansible
2 1 (1.72%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.72%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (12.07%) Cisco
2 5 (8.62%) Dynatrace
2 5 (8.62%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.62%) Splunk
3 4 (6.90%) Databricks
4 2 (3.45%) BT
4 2 (3.45%) Google
4 2 (3.45%) Planview
4 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.72%) CheckPoint
5 1 (1.72%) Sony
5 1 (1.72%) Virgin Media