QA Contracts in Wiltshire

Quality Assurance (QA)
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 37 62 68
Rank change year-on-year +25 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing QA 24 12 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 4.15% 1.46% 2.18%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.37% 13.48% 15.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 7 14
10th Percentile £423 £337 £334
25th Percentile £452 £403 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £419
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% +31.34% -16.67%
75th Percentile £569 £591 £456
90th Percentile £582 £594 £645
South West median daily rate £488 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -11.36% +15.79% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.00
Median hourly rate - - £54.00
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £13.26 £50.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -73.48% -7.41% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 91 89 140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 15.72% 10.81% 13.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 66 106
10th Percentile £372 £431 £399
25th Percentile £463 £500 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £574
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -1.92% +9.24%
75th Percentile £665 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £728 £688
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 7
10th Percentile - - £20.80
25th Percentile - - £23.50
Median hourly rate - £86.66 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - +60.48% -25.52%
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £70.00 £73.31 £54.00
% change year-on-year -4.52% +35.76% +8.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Wiltshire

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Wiltshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Wiltshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Wiltshire

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Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Wiltshire 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
Corsham +16 11 £550 - 3
Swindon +6 2 £450 -23.40% 1
Salisbury +6 1 £425 - 1
Trowbridge - 1 £575 -
Chippenham - 1 - - 1
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South West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (4.17%) Mendix
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) AWS
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
1 1 (4.17%) Azure Functions
1 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
1 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
1 1 (4.17%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (41.67%) RDBMS
1 10 (41.67%) Relational Database
2 9 (37.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Power BI
3 1 (4.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) GitLab
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 17 (70.83%) Social Skills
2 13 (54.17%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Retail
6 1 (4.17%) Electronics
6 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Marketing
6 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Automation Tester
1 5 (20.83%) Tester
2 4 (16.67%) Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) CyberArk Consultant
2 4 (16.67%) CyberArk Specialist
2 4 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Active Directory Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) CyberArk Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) IT Manager
3 2 (8.33%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Deployment Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (4.17%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (37.50%) Middleware
2 2 (8.33%) pytest
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (4.17%) OAuth
3 1 (4.17%) OpenAPI
3 1 (4.17%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Onboarding
2 2 (8.33%) Algorithms
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.17%) Low-Code
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (45.83%) Windows
2 10 (41.67%) Linux
2 10 (41.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (50.00%) Time Management
3 9 (37.50%) Identity Management
4 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
6 5 (20.83%) Scrum
7 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 4 (16.67%) Code Quality
7 4 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
7 4 (16.67%) Performance Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Regression Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Test Planning
7 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
8 3 (12.50%) Project Management
9 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
9 2 (8.33%) Change Management
9 2 (8.33%) Data Analysis
9 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
9 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (41.67%) SQL
2 5 (20.83%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) Python
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 13 (54.17%) SC Cleared
3 5 (20.83%) DV Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Degree
5 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
5 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
System Software
1 10 (41.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (16.67%) Ansible
1 4 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
1 11 (45.83%) Oracle
2 10 (41.67%) CyberArk
3 2 (8.33%) SAP
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) OutSystems
4 1 (4.17%) UiPath
4 1 (4.17%) VMware