QA Engineer Contracts in the City of London

Quality Assurance Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £450 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 118 165 193
Rank change year-on-year +47 +28 -55
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 9 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.41% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.20% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 1
10th Percentile £360 £344 -
25th Percentile £413 £438 £688
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £536 £725
Median % change year-on-year -15.97% -26.14% +93.33%
75th Percentile £500 £605 £763
90th Percentile £508 £625 -
Central London median daily rate £450 £546 £725
% change year-on-year -17.58% -24.69% +75.76%

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 Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in the City of London

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the City of London region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London Bridge - 1 £500 -
QA Engineer
Central London

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, QA Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
3 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (44.44%) Postman
4 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
4 4 (44.44%) Selenium
4 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
4 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
4 4 (44.44%) API Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Fintech
5 3 (33.33%) React Native
5 3 (33.33%) QA Automation
5 3 (33.33%) Appium
5 3 (33.33%) GitHub
5 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 3 (33.33%) Agile
6 2 (22.22%) Finance
6 2 (22.22%) PHP
6 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (22.22%) REST
6 2 (22.22%) BDD
6 2 (22.22%) Java
6 2 (22.22%) JIRA
6 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
6 2 (22.22%) Behat
6 2 (22.22%) SDET
6 2 (22.22%) BrowserStack

QA Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (22.22%) BrowserStack
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
1 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
1 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
1 4 (44.44%) Postman
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Appium
3 2 (22.22%) Bitbucket
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Mocha
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
4 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) React Native
2 2 (22.22%) Behat
2 2 (22.22%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) Gherkin
3 1 (11.11%) Jest
3 1 (11.11%) Middleware
3 1 (11.11%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) API Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Fintech
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) QA Automation
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 2 (22.22%) SDET
5 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 1 (11.11%) Conversational UI
6 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
6 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
6 1 (11.11%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Perfecto Mobile