Software Quality Assurance Contracts in the City of London

Software Quality Assurance
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Software Quality Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 123 170 190
Rank change year-on-year +47 +20 -
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.046% 0.028% 0.024%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.27% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £350 £325
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile - - £338
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate - £350 £325
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

Software Quality Assurance is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 374 464 673
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.21% 12.85% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 271 337 450
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £500 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £674 £725 £638
90th Percentile £775 £838 £756
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £16.78 - £19.13
25th Percentile £17.96 - £23.06
Median hourly rate £20.61 - £43.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +200.00%
75th Percentile £22.65 - £61.94
90th Percentile £23.46 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.40 £23.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -0.43% -43.37% +186.21%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in the City of London

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the City of London

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in the City of London

Software Quality Assurance
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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) QA Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Software QA Specialist
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Specialist
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA