QA Contracts in the Thames Valley

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 40 89 51
Rank change year-on-year +49 -38 +27
Contract jobs citing QA 105 57 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 3.98% 1.99% 3.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.49% 13.97% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 39 108
10th Percentile £321 £353 £350
25th Percentile £409 £400 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £445
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +9.55% +7.88%
75th Percentile £575 £534 £538
90th Percentile - £589 £588
South East median daily rate £488 £463 £450
% change year-on-year +5.41% +2.78% +6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - - £17.81
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £22.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £46.68
Median % change year-on-year - -59.30% +119.67%
75th Percentile £19.50 £47.63 £67.58
90th Percentile - £64.50 £67.98
South East median hourly rate £10.82 £19.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -43.05% -60.00% +143.59%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 412 408 531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 15.62% 14.26% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 236 333
10th Percentile £198 £306 £220
25th Percentile £316 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £564 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £675 £638
South East median daily rate £475 £490 £475
% change year-on-year -3.06% +3.16% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 19 16
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.80 £10.26
25th Percentile £22.50 £18.50 £11.93
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.00 £17.76
Median % change year-on-year +19.57% +29.54% -15.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £53.45 £22.00
90th Percentile £69.11 £73.72 £46.93
South East median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -5.17% +38.10% -23.11%

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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 May 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 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
Berkshire +37 86 £509 +11.56% 37
Buckinghamshire +19 11 £475 -5.00% 28
Oxfordshire +13 8 £488 +8.33% 35
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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 2 (1.90%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (1.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.62%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 6 (5.71%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.95%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.95%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (0.95%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.29%) Azure
2 11 (10.48%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.76%) GitHub
4 3 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.95%) AWS
6 1 (0.95%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.95%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.95%) GCP
6 1 (0.95%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.81%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (2.86%) Firewall
3 2 (1.90%) MPLS
3 2 (1.90%) TCP/IP
3 2 (1.90%) VPN
4 1 (0.95%) 3G
4 1 (0.95%) ADSL
4 1 (0.95%) BGP
4 1 (0.95%) DNS
4 1 (0.95%) Ethernet
4 1 (0.95%) Internet
4 1 (0.95%) LAN
4 1 (0.95%) OSPF
4 1 (0.95%) PPP
4 1 (0.95%) RIP
4 1 (0.95%) SMS
4 1 (0.95%) SNMP
4 1 (0.95%) TACACS
4 1 (0.95%) VoIP
4 1 (0.95%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.71%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.86%) MySQL
3 2 (1.90%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (1.90%) Metadata
3 2 (1.90%) RDBMS
3 2 (1.90%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.95%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.95%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (12.38%) JIRA
2 3 (2.86%) SpecFlow
2 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (1.90%) Selenium
4 1 (0.95%) Android Studio
4 1 (0.95%) Cucumber
4 1 (0.95%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.95%) Postman
4 1 (0.95%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (0.95%) SoapUI
4 1 (0.95%) TestRail
4 1 (0.95%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
4 1 (0.95%) Xcode
General
1 53 (50.48%) Social Skills
2 28 (26.67%) Telecoms
3 24 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.29%) Finance
5 7 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.76%) Retail
7 3 (2.86%) Automotive
7 3 (2.86%) Billing
7 3 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.90%) Public Sector
8 2 (1.90%) Publishing
9 1 (0.95%) Aviation
9 1 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.95%) Games
9 1 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (17.14%) Build Engineer
2 17 (16.19%) Windows Build Engineer
2 17 (16.19%) Windows Engineer
3 13 (12.38%) Analyst
4 11 (10.48%) Project Manager
5 10 (9.52%) QA Analyst
5 10 (9.52%) Test Analyst
6 9 (8.57%) Developer
7 8 (7.62%) QA Test Analyst
8 7 (6.67%) Architect
8 7 (6.67%) IT Manager
8 7 (6.67%) IT Operations Manager
8 7 (6.67%) Performance Manager
8 7 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
8 7 (6.67%) Tester
9 6 (5.71%) Lead
9 6 (5.71%) Operations Manager
10 5 (4.76%) Quality Engineer
11 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Manager
11 4 (3.81%) Site Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) HTML
2 4 (3.81%) .NET
2 4 (3.81%) Node.js
2 4 (3.81%) React
3 3 (2.86%) CSS
3 3 (2.86%) React Native
4 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.90%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (1.90%) Playwright
4 2 (1.90%) XML
5 1 (0.95%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.95%) ADO
5 1 (0.95%) AngularJS
5 1 (0.95%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.95%) jQuery
5 1 (0.95%) JSON
5 1 (0.95%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.81%) Data Protection Act
1 4 (3.81%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.86%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.90%) SCADA
4 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.95%) CCTV
4 1 (0.95%) Driving Licence
4 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.95%) IoT
4 1 (0.95%) LIMS
4 1 (0.95%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.95%) PlayStation
4 1 (0.95%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (22.86%) Windows
2 21 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 18 (17.14%) Windows Server 2016
4 17 (16.19%) Windows 10
4 17 (16.19%) Windows NT
4 17 (16.19%) Windows Server 2012
4 17 (16.19%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.95%) Android
5 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.81%) ITIL
2 24 (22.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 22 (20.95%) Agile
4 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (17.14%) Customer Service
5 18 (17.14%) Service Management
6 17 (16.19%) Deployment Automation
6 17 (16.19%) Release Management
7 15 (14.29%) DevOps
7 15 (14.29%) Project Management
8 13 (12.38%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (10.48%) Project Delivery
9 11 (10.48%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (10.48%) Test Automation
10 10 (9.52%) Customer Experience
10 10 (9.52%) Mentoring
11 9 (8.57%) Change Management
11 9 (8.57%) Scrum
12 8 (7.62%) Coaching
12 8 (7.62%) Procure-to-Pay
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.62%) SQL
2 6 (5.71%) C#
2 6 (5.71%) JavaScript
3 5 (4.76%) Python
4 4 (3.81%) Java
5 3 (2.86%) F#
6 2 (1.90%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.95%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 21 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.14%) DV Cleared
3 12 (11.43%) Degree
4 4 (3.81%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 3 (2.86%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) BC Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.95%) CCDP
6 1 (0.95%) CCIP
6 1 (0.95%) CCNA
6 1 (0.95%) CCNP
6 1 (0.95%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.95%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.95%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.95%) MBCS
6 1 (0.95%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (2.86%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.90%) ISO 14001
2 2 (1.90%) ISO 9001
2 2 (1.90%) PMO
2 2 (1.90%) SLA
3 1 (0.95%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 18 (17.14%) Active Directory
2 17 (16.19%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 17 (16.19%) SCCM
1 17 (16.19%) Sysprep
1 17 (16.19%) WSUS
2 2 (1.90%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.95%) Ansible
3 1 (0.95%) Grafana
3 1 (0.95%) Graylog
3 1 (0.95%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.95%) Nagios
3 1 (0.95%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.95%) Terraform
Vendors
1 25 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 16 (15.24%) Oracle
3 6 (5.71%) Splunk
4 5 (4.76%) Dynatrace
5 4 (3.81%) BT
6 2 (1.90%) Adobe
6 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
6 2 (1.90%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.95%) ADVA
7 1 (0.95%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (0.95%) Cisco
7 1 (0.95%) Citrix
7 1 (0.95%) Databricks
7 1 (0.95%) Ericsson
7 1 (0.95%) Juniper
7 1 (0.95%) Mavenir
7 1 (0.95%) NEC
7 1 (0.95%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (0.95%) Remedy
7 1 (0.95%) Sony