Software Quality Assurance Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Software Quality Assurance
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Midlands requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 130 141
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 -
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 1 4 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.038% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.21% 1.02% 1.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £436 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - £483
75th Percentile £439 - £564
90th Percentile - - £571
England median daily rate £500 £501 £533
% change year-on-year -0.12% -5.99% +6.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £71.75
% change year-on-year - - +38.17%

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 467 391 423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 17.62% 14.43% 14.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 240 279
10th Percentile £283 £249 £281
25th Percentile £363 £363 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £542 £600 £588
90th Percentile £647 £725 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £539
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.60% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 26 26
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.38 £13.10
25th Percentile £16.13 £12.86 £17.22
Median hourly rate £25.08 £15.90 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +57.70% -42.18% +39.84%
75th Percentile £32.91 £47.13 £31.32
90th Percentile £40.12 £55.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £30.56 £37.50
% change year-on-year +6.35% -18.51% +66.67%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Quality Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Quality Assurance

Software Quality Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Quality Assurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing Software Quality Assurance

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 17 September 2025. 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
East Midlands - 1 £438 -
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Reconciliation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle