QA Contracts in the Midlands

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 62 68
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +10
Contract jobs citing QA 90 91 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.31% 3.08% 3.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.11% 21.41% 23.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 64 124
10th Percentile £283 £316 £350
25th Percentile £327 £402 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £500 £448
Median % change year-on-year -8.25% +11.73% +8.81%
75th Percentile £588 £564 £550
90th Percentile £756 £634 £635
England median daily rate £488 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -7.14% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 3
10th Percentile £11.96 £18.75 £13.56
25th Percentile £12.00 £36.25 £14.10
Median hourly rate £13.95 £70.00 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.07% +366.67% -11.76%
75th Percentile £29.62 £75.63 £16.88
90th Percentile £54.47 £77.50 £18.00
England median hourly rate £13.26 £50.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -73.48% +40.85% +82.99%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 407 425 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 14.97% 14.39% 14.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 279 511
10th Percentile £248 £300 £213
25th Percentile £356 £407 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £560
90th Percentile £750 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 28 16
10th Percentile £12.08 £13.34 £12.93
25th Percentile £12.75 £17.41 £15.94
Median hourly rate £16.05 £27.50 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -41.65% +39.84% +66.94%
75th Percentile £48.06 £32.45 £20.75
90th Percentile £55.00 £70.00 £22.62
England median hourly rate £31.37 £36.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -12.86% +60.00% +11.47%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for QA in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 September 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
West Midlands +28 75 £513 -5.09% 56
East Midlands -17 13 £440 +4.76% 23
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (2.22%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.11%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (6.67%) NetSuite
2 2 (2.22%) Exstream
2 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.11%) SAP EWM
3 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.11%) SAP WM
Cloud Services
1 6 (6.67%) Azure
1 6 (6.67%) BlazeMeter
2 5 (5.56%) Boomi
3 4 (4.44%) AWS
3 4 (4.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 3 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.33%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.33%) Power Platform
4 3 (3.33%) SaaS
4 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.11%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.67%) VoIP
2 4 (4.44%) DHCP
2 4 (4.44%) DNS
2 4 (4.44%) INAP
2 4 (4.44%) RTP
3 2 (2.22%) HTTP
3 2 (2.22%) Intelligent Network
3 2 (2.22%) LAN
3 2 (2.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (2.22%) VPN
3 2 (2.22%) WAN
4 1 (1.11%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.33%) BusinessObjects
2 3 (3.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.22%) BusinessObjects Business Intelligence
3 2 (2.22%) Power BI
3 2 (2.22%) SAP BW
3 2 (2.22%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Analysis Services
4 1 (1.11%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.11%) OLAP
4 1 (1.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (11.11%) JIRA
1 10 (11.11%) Selenium
2 8 (8.89%) JMeter
3 6 (6.67%) Locust
3 6 (6.67%) Robot Framework
3 6 (6.67%) TestCafe
4 4 (4.44%) JUnit
4 4 (4.44%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.22%) Postman
6 1 (1.11%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.11%) Cypress.io
6 1 (1.11%) GitLab
6 1 (1.11%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.11%) TestNG
6 1 (1.11%) TestRail
6 1 (1.11%) Zephyr
General
1 30 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.78%) Finance
4 6 (6.67%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.56%) Aviation
5 5 (5.56%) Banking
5 5 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (5.56%) Legal
5 5 (5.56%) Military
6 4 (4.44%) Games
6 4 (4.44%) Retail
7 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.33%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.11%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.11%) Automotive
8 1 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Local Government
8 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 11 (12.22%) DevOps Engineer
2 10 (11.11%) Lead
2 10 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 10 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 10 (11.11%) Senior
3 8 (8.89%) Test Manager
4 7 (7.78%) Analyst
5 6 (6.67%) Senior Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Engineering Specialist
6 5 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
6 5 (5.56%) QA Specialist
6 5 (5.56%) Quality Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Software QA Engineer
6 5 (5.56%) Software Quality Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Architect
7 4 (4.44%) Senior Test Manager
7 4 (4.44%) Technical Leader
8 3 (3.33%) Consultant
8 3 (3.33%) Developer
8 3 (3.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) Qt
2 4 (4.44%) AngularJS
2 4 (4.44%) CSS
2 4 (4.44%) HTML
2 4 (4.44%) LDAP
2 4 (4.44%) RESTful
2 4 (4.44%) Taurus
2 4 (4.44%) Web Services
2 4 (4.44%) XML
3 3 (3.33%) .NET
3 3 (3.33%) .NET Framework
3 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (3.33%) ASP.NET Web API
3 3 (3.33%) Django
3 3 (3.33%) Entity Framework
3 3 (3.33%) Flask
4 2 (2.22%) JSON
4 2 (2.22%) Node.js
4 2 (2.22%) REST
4 2 (2.22%) Unity (Game Engine)
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 5 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (3.33%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.22%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.22%) EPoS
4 2 (2.22%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.11%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.11%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.11%) FMCG
5 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.11%) IVR
5 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.11%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.11%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 11 (12.22%) Linux
2 7 (7.78%) Windows
3 4 (4.44%) CentOS
3 4 (4.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (24.44%) DevOps
2 22 (24.44%) Test Automation
3 20 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 19 (21.11%) Risk Management
5 18 (20.00%) Software Engineering
6 17 (18.89%) Agile
7 16 (17.78%) Test Strategy
8 15 (16.67%) Decision-Making
8 15 (16.67%) Project Management
9 14 (15.56%) User Experience
10 12 (13.33%) Test Scripting
10 12 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (12.22%) CI/CD
11 11 (12.22%) Scrum
11 11 (12.22%) Workflow
12 10 (11.11%) Project Delivery
13 8 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (8.89%) SDLC
14 7 (7.78%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.22%) Python
2 5 (5.56%) C
2 5 (5.56%) C++
2 5 (5.56%) JavaScript
3 3 (3.33%) C#
3 3 (3.33%) SQL
4 2 (2.22%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.11%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 27 (30.00%) Degree
2 20 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
3 15 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 10 (11.11%) DV Cleared
5 4 (4.44%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 3 (3.33%) PMP
7 2 (2.22%) HNC
7 2 (2.22%) HND
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.11%) CCNA
8 1 (1.11%) CCNP
8 1 (1.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
2 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.33%) PMO
3 2 (2.22%) GDPR
4 1 (1.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.11%) COBIT
4 1 (1.11%) GRC
4 1 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.11%) ITGC
4 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (7.78%) Ansible
1 7 (7.78%) Terraform
2 2 (2.22%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.78%) SAP
3 6 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 5 (5.56%) Dell
4 5 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 4 (4.44%) Dialogic
5 4 (4.44%) Metaswitch
5 4 (4.44%) VMware
6 2 (2.22%) HP
6 2 (2.22%) OpenText
6 2 (2.22%) Oracle
6 2 (2.22%) Sony
7 1 (1.11%) OutSystems
7 1 (1.11%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.11%) UiPath