Software Quality Assurance Contracts in the Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Quality Assurance 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 130 138 -
Rank change year-on-year +8 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 5 7 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.18% 0.24% -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 1.23% 1.65% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £483 -
England median daily rate £501 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -5.99% +6.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £75.00 -
England median hourly rate - £71.75 £51.93
% change year-on-year - +38.17% -15.56%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Midlands

Software Quality Assurance 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%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in the Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
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 Software Quality Assurance 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 +11 5 - - 2
Software Quality Assurance
England

Software Quality Assurance
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:

General
1 5 (100.00%) Aviation
1 5 (100.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Software QA Engineer
1 5 (100.00%) Software Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (100.00%) Qt
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 5 (100.00%) Programme Management
1 5 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 5 (100.00%) Quality Management
1 5 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 5 (100.00%) SDLC
1 5 (100.00%) Six Sigma
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) C
1 5 (100.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA