QA Manager Contracts

Quality Assurance Manager
UK

The median Quality Assurance Manager daily rate in the UK is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 674 816
Rank change year-on-year +112 +142 -105
Contract jobs requiring a QA Manager 22 23 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.050% 0.041% 0.037%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.044% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 16 22
10th Percentile £263 £456 £414
25th Percentile £275 £508 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £529 £490
Median % change year-on-year -38.56% +7.96% +8.89%
75th Percentile £438 £601 £597
90th Percentile £450 £625 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £604 £456
% change year-on-year -46.15% +32.28% +8.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

QA Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured QA Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Manager over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Manager in the UK

QA Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the UK 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
UK excluding London +39 16 £325 -46.15% 27
England +77 13 £413 -21.43% 25
North of England +21 6 £275 - 7
London +73 5 £450 -14.93% 6
Yorkshire +16 4 £275 -
Northern Ireland - 4 £325 -
Wales - 4 - - 7
North West - 2 £425 - 7
South East +14 1 - - 5
South West +1 1 - - 3

QA Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, QA Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring QA Manager in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (18.18%) Agile
2 4 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 3 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (13.64%) Kanban
3 3 (13.64%) Scrum
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (9.09%) Test Management
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team Management
4 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
4 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (9.09%) Zephyr
4 2 (9.09%) Software Asset Management
4 2 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 1 (4.55%) Code Quality
5 1 (4.55%) Finsemble
5 1 (4.55%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.55%) Contentful
5 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
5 1 (4.55%) SDLC
5 1 (4.55%) Grafana
5 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
5 1 (4.55%) React

QA Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (4.55%) Contentful
1 1 (4.55%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) JIRA
1 2 (9.09%) Zephyr
2 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
2 1 (4.55%) Gatling
2 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.55%) JMeter
2 1 (4.55%) Selenium
2 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.55%) Electronics
3 1 (4.55%) Finance
3 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (4.55%) Node.js
1 1 (4.55%) Playwright
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) WebSockets
1 1 (4.55%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team
3 1 (4.55%) Blockchain
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Agile
2 3 (13.64%) Kanban
2 3 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (13.64%) Scrum
3 2 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 2 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
3 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 2 (9.09%) Software Asset Management
3 2 (9.09%) Test Management
3 2 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (9.09%) Virtual Team Management
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.55%) Data Analysis
4 1 (4.55%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.55%) Process Management
4 1 (4.55%) Project Management
4 1 (4.55%) SDLC
4 1 (4.55%) Software Testing
4 1 (4.55%) Statistics
4 1 (4.55%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) C++
1 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
1 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.55%) Citrix
2 1 (4.55%) Finsemble