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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 79 61
Rank change year-on-year -4 -18 -7
Contract jobs citing QA 10 12 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.03% 1.13% 2.19%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 4.67% 11.65% 15.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 8
10th Percentile £519 £448 £404
25th Percentile £521 £487 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +14.29% +4.48%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £650
90th Percentile £588 £644 -
South West median daily rate £550 £475 £524
% change year-on-year +15.79% -9.35% +16.44%
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 £12.62 £34.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -62.88% -37.04% -

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 214 103 123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 22.02% 9.73% 14.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 77 86
10th Percentile £299 £400 £391
25th Percentile £410 £475 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £600 £539
Median % change year-on-year -13.13% +11.32% +4.66%
75th Percentile £600 £675 £625
90th Percentile £690 £715 £781
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £33.50
25th Percentile £10.63 - £52.00
Median hourly rate £11.25 - £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.00%
75th Percentile £11.88 - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £63.00
South West median hourly rate £45.00 £65.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -30.77% +18.18% +10.00%

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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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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 10 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
Corsham -13 3 £570 -15.56% 1
Devizes - 3 - - 1
Swindon +1 1 £520 +5.05% 10
Trowbridge - 1 £575 - 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 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
1 1 (10.00%) InVision
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (10.00%) Big Data
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (10.00%) Metadata
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Tester
2 4 (40.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Interaction Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Designer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Interaction Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Code Quality
3 3 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Time Management
5 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (10.00%) Data Cleansing
5 1 (10.00%) Data Validation
5 1 (10.00%) ETL
5 1 (10.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) UX Design
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) DV Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
1 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (10.00%) Cloudera
2 1 (10.00%) Databricks
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) VMware