QA Contracts in the North of England

Quality Assurance (QA)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 54 62 78
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -15
Contract jobs citing QA 164 179 209
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 3.38% 3.29% 2.94%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.67% 23.34% 21.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 120 172
10th Percentile £313 £361 £264
25th Percentile £413 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +4.59%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £523
90th Percentile £694 £577 £606
England median daily rate £513 £513 £520
% change year-on-year - -1.44% +9.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 2 4
10th Percentile - £20.80 £29.53
25th Percentile £10.86 £20.88 £41.59
Median hourly rate £11.88 £22.00 £57.27
Median % change year-on-year -46.00% -61.58% +129.06%
75th Percentile £13.31 £23.38 £65.00
90th Percentile £19.99 £23.60 -
England median hourly rate £14.00 £22.49 £42.60
% change year-on-year -37.74% -47.22% +130.27%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 693 767 968
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 14.30% 14.09% 13.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 467 703
10th Percentile £313 £295 £197
25th Percentile £413 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +2.86%
75th Percentile £593 £578 £575
90th Percentile £670 £650 £639
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 48 55
10th Percentile - £17.24 £11.36
25th Percentile £10.95 £26.84 £15.93
Median hourly rate £12.00 £35.00 £22.29
Median % change year-on-year -65.71% +57.02% +28.47%
75th Percentile £26.66 £47.25 £61.88
90th Percentile £48.75 £56.59 £77.50
England median hourly rate £24.18 £42.50 £27.50
% change year-on-year -43.11% +54.55% +33.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for QA in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the North of England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
North West +8 81 £500 +3.63% 129
Yorkshire +16 74 £550 +4.76% 65
North East -3 9 £410 -15.03% 48
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (7.93%) Confluence
2 9 (5.49%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.66%) SAS
4 2 (1.22%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.61%) Alfresco
5 1 (0.61%) GeoServer
Applications
1 14 (8.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.61%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.44%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (2.44%) TrackWise
2 3 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (1.22%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.22%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.22%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.61%) SAP Payroll
Cloud Services
1 34 (20.73%) AWS
1 34 (20.73%) Azure
2 18 (10.98%) GitHub
3 17 (10.37%) Power Platform
4 11 (6.71%) Snowflake
5 10 (6.10%) Amazon EC2
5 10 (6.10%) Amazon S3
6 9 (5.49%) Apigee
6 9 (5.49%) GCP
6 9 (5.49%) Kong
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (4.88%) Amazon SQS
7 8 (4.88%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.88%) Route 53
7 8 (4.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 7 (4.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 6 (3.66%) Collibra
9 6 (3.66%) Power Automate
9 6 (3.66%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (6.71%) DNS
2 9 (5.49%) Firewall
2 9 (5.49%) HTTP
2 9 (5.49%) TCP/IP
2 9 (5.49%) VPN
3 6 (3.66%) SSL
4 3 (1.83%) BIG-IP
4 3 (1.83%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
4 3 (1.83%) Reverse Proxy
5 2 (1.22%) DHCP
5 2 (1.22%) Remote Desktop
5 2 (1.22%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (0.61%) RFID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.37%) Elasticsearch
2 14 (8.54%) SQL Server
3 12 (7.32%) Power BI
4 10 (6.10%) Data Lake
5 8 (4.88%) MySQL
6 6 (3.66%) Ataccama
6 6 (3.66%) Qlik Sense
7 5 (3.05%) Data Mining
7 5 (3.05%) NoSQL
7 5 (3.05%) Relational Database
8 4 (2.44%) EDMS
8 4 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
9 3 (1.83%) Apache Cassandra
9 3 (1.83%) Data Warehouse
10 2 (1.22%) DynamoDB
11 1 (0.61%) Azkaban
11 1 (0.61%) Microsoft Analysis Services
11 1 (0.61%) QGIS
11 1 (0.61%) Spark SQL
11 1 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 24 (14.63%) GitLab
2 20 (12.20%) Git
2 20 (12.20%) Jenkins
3 18 (10.98%) JIRA
4 13 (7.93%) Selenium
5 9 (5.49%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 9 (5.49%) CircleCI
5 9 (5.49%) JUnit
5 9 (5.49%) Travis CI
6 8 (4.88%) webpack
7 7 (4.27%) Cucumber
8 6 (3.66%) SonarQube
8 6 (3.66%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
9 5 (3.05%) Postman
10 4 (2.44%) AppScan
10 4 (2.44%) Burp Suite
10 4 (2.44%) Cypress.io
10 4 (2.44%) JMeter
10 4 (2.44%) TeamCity
11 3 (1.83%) Maven
General
1 68 (41.46%) Social Skills
2 20 (12.20%) Finance
3 18 (10.98%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.76%) Pharmaceutical
5 12 (7.32%) Banking
6 6 (3.66%) Retail
7 5 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.83%) Law
9 3 (1.83%) Legal
9 3 (1.83%) Marketing
9 3 (1.83%) Public Sector
10 2 (1.22%) Automotive
10 2 (1.22%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.22%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.61%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.61%) Aviation
11 1 (0.61%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 30 (18.29%) Analyst
2 20 (12.20%) Developer
3 13 (7.93%) Lead
4 12 (7.32%) Automation Engineer
4 12 (7.32%) QA Analyst
5 11 (6.71%) QA Engineer
5 11 (6.71%) Senior
5 11 (6.71%) Test Engineer
6 10 (6.10%) Architect
6 10 (6.10%) Data Analyst
7 9 (5.49%) Data Quality Analyst
7 9 (5.49%) Quality Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Security Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Senior Data Quality Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Senior QA Analyst
8 8 (4.88%) Senior Quality Analyst
9 7 (4.27%) Project Manager
10 6 (3.66%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (9.15%) React
2 14 (8.54%) Node.js
3 13 (7.93%) Elastic Stack
4 12 (7.32%) Gherkin
5 11 (6.71%) Redux
6 10 (6.10%) XML
7 9 (5.49%) JSON
7 9 (5.49%) YAML
8 8 (4.88%) .NET
8 8 (4.88%) Express.js
8 8 (4.88%) SailPoint
9 5 (3.05%) CSS
9 5 (3.05%) HTML
9 5 (3.05%) REST
9 5 (3.05%) SOAP
10 4 (2.44%) AngularJS
10 4 (2.44%) Jest
10 4 (2.44%) OAuth
10 4 (2.44%) OpenID
10 4 (2.44%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.32%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.49%) Data Structures
3 6 (3.66%) Life Science
3 6 (3.66%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.05%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.05%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.44%) CMDB
5 4 (2.44%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.44%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.83%) IoT
6 3 (1.83%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.83%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.22%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.61%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.61%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.61%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.61%) Private Cloud
8 1 (0.61%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.05%) Android
1 5 (3.05%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.44%) Linux
2 4 (2.44%) Windows
2 4 (2.44%) Windows 10
3 2 (1.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (37.80%) Agile
2 53 (32.32%) Test Automation
3 40 (24.39%) CI/CD
3 40 (24.39%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (18.90%) Scrum
5 29 (17.68%) DevOps
6 27 (16.46%) Project Management
7 24 (14.63%) Containerisation
8 21 (12.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (10.98%) Continuous Integration
10 17 (10.37%) API Development
10 17 (10.37%) Test Strategy
11 15 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (9.15%) Kanban
12 14 (8.54%) Unit Testing
12 14 (8.54%) User Stories
13 13 (7.93%) Analytics
13 13 (7.93%) Collaborative Working
13 13 (7.93%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (7.93%) Full Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 34 (20.73%) Python
2 27 (16.46%) Java
3 22 (13.41%) PowerShell
4 19 (11.59%) SQL
5 16 (9.76%) Bash
6 14 (8.54%) C#
7 12 (7.32%) JavaScript
8 4 (2.44%) TypeScript
9 3 (1.83%) ActionScript
10 2 (1.22%) Go
10 2 (1.22%) PHP
10 2 (1.22%) Scala
10 2 (1.22%) VB
11 1 (0.61%) Apex Code
11 1 (0.61%) Kotlin
11 1 (0.61%) R
Qualifications
1 16 (9.76%) Security Cleared
2 15 (9.15%) SC Cleared
3 10 (6.10%) Degree
4 5 (3.05%) ISTQB
5 4 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.83%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (1.83%) PMI Certification
6 3 (1.83%) PMP
7 2 (1.22%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.22%) CCNA
7 2 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (1.22%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (0.61%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (9.15%) Data Quality
2 4 (2.44%) GDPR
3 3 (1.83%) SLA
4 2 (1.22%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.22%) ISO 22301
4 2 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (0.61%) GAMP
5 1 (0.61%) GMP
5 1 (0.61%) GRC
5 1 (0.61%) HL7
System Software
1 19 (11.59%) Docker
2 10 (6.10%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.22%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.22%) KVM
3 2 (1.22%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (1.22%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (1.22%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.22%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 26 (15.85%) Kubernetes
2 18 (10.98%) Ansible
3 15 (9.15%) Terraform
4 13 (7.93%) Grafana
4 13 (7.93%) Progress Chef
4 13 (7.93%) Prometheus
4 13 (7.93%) Puppet
5 10 (6.10%) Kibana
6 9 (5.49%) Docker Swarm
6 9 (5.49%) logstash
7 6 (3.66%) HP Fortify
8 4 (2.44%) Graylog
8 4 (2.44%) Nessus
8 4 (2.44%) WebInspect
9 3 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (1.22%) Microsoft Intune
10 2 (1.22%) SCCM
10 2 (1.22%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (14.63%) Microsoft
2 15 (9.15%) SAP
2 15 (9.15%) Splunk
3 8 (4.88%) CyberArk
4 6 (3.66%) Alteryx
4 6 (3.66%) Dataiku
4 6 (3.66%) Salesforce
4 6 (3.66%) Trillium
5 5 (3.05%) Oracle
5 5 (3.05%) Pega
6 4 (2.44%) Checkmarx
6 4 (2.44%) ServiceNow
6 4 (2.44%) Veracode
7 3 (1.83%) F5
7 3 (1.83%) Google
8 2 (1.22%) Ariba
8 2 (1.22%) Perfecto Mobile
8 2 (1.22%) VMware
9 1 (0.61%) Databricks
9 1 (0.61%) Liquidlogic