QA Contracts in West Sussex

Quality Assurance (QA)
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 23 17 15
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 0
Contract jobs citing QA 3 28 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.38% 10.22% 13.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 13.64% 65.12% 64.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 15 38
10th Percentile - £369 £385
25th Percentile - £463 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile - £498 £495
90th Percentile - £538 £538
South East median daily rate £438 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -7.89% -5.00% +5.26%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 43 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 17.46% 15.69% 21.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 60
10th Percentile £170 £334 £292
25th Percentile £179 £416 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% +6.67% -10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £538 £501
90th Percentile - £758 £603
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% +2.85%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in West Sussex

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for QA in West Sussex

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in West Sussex

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Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the West Sussex 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
Crawley +6 1 - - 1
Worthing -1 1 £450 -8.16%
Burgess Hill - 1 - -
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Trello
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) NoSQL
1 1 (33.33%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
1 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Go
1 1 (33.33%) Java
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce