QA Specialist Contracts in the City of London

Quality Assurance Specialist
Central London > City of London

The median Quality Assurance Specialist daily rate in the City of London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Specialist 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.090% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.095% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £475 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,102 3,480 3,996
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.98% 95.19% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,492 2,360 3,018
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 25 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.98 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

QA Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Specialist in the City of London

QA Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Specialist in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for QA Specialist in the City of London

QA Specialist Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA Specialist 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 City of London region featuring QA Specialist in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance

QA Specialist Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Deployment Automation
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance