QA Tester Contracts in Central London

Quality Assurance Tester
London > Central London

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Central London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 - 185
Rank change year-on-year - - -29
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 3 0 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.12% - 0.24%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £275 - £385
25th Percentile £350 - £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £473
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £478
90th Percentile £495 - £514
London median daily rate £471 £628 £445
% change year-on-year -24.90% +41.01% -6.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central London. 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,323 3,673 4,299
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.23% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,655 2,515 3,271
10th Percentile £342 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £560
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
75th Percentile £682 £725 £675
90th Percentile £795 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 27 53
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £21.63 £19.36 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% +108.62%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £86.32 £65.10
London median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Tester in Central London.

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in Central London

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in Central London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Tester in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Tester in Central London

QA Tester
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Tester within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
City of London - 3 £475 - 1
Southwark - 1 £500 -
QA Tester
London

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, QA Tester 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 across the Central London region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Opsgenie
3 1 (33.33%) Ruby
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) Perl
3 1 (33.33%) CSS
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 (33.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) AngularJS
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) A/B Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Fintech
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Open Source
3 1 (33.33%) Personalization
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) Ruby
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) PagerDuty
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk