QA Contracts in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA)
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 QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 37 91 56
Rank change year-on-year +54 -35 -4
Contract jobs citing QA 110 95 186
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.96% 2.59% 4.37%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 28.72% 20.39% 27.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 73 140
10th Percentile £363 £353 £350
25th Percentile £469 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -3.38%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £625
90th Percentile £694 £782 £739
Central London median daily rate £550 £546 £500
% change year-on-year +0.73% +9.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £59.50
Median hourly rate - - £61.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £42.50 - £61.00
% change year-on-year - - +258.82%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of London

QA 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 383 466 677
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.27% 12.70% 15.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 278 342 458
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £495 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +6.28%
75th Percentile £662 £725 £638
90th Percentile £758 £837 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 4
10th Percentile £17.18 - £19.13
25th Percentile £18.94 £58.25 £23.06
Median hourly rate £21.80 £59.50 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +36.78% +200.00%
75th Percentile £36.44 £60.75 £61.94
90th Percentile £58.83 - £62.28
Central London median hourly rate £23.80 £25.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -4.80% -42.53% +152.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for QA in the City of London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the City of London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in the City of London

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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 within the City of London region over the 6 months to 23 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 - 2 £500 -
QA
Central London

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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 18 (16.36%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle Workflow
3 3 (2.73%) Confluence
4 2 (1.82%) CMS
5 1 (0.91%) Jupyter
Applications
1 3 (2.73%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.82%) Endur
2 1 (0.91%) SAP QM
2 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.64%) Azure
2 9 (8.18%) GitHub
3 7 (6.36%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.36%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.45%) AWS
5 3 (2.73%) Azure API Management
5 3 (2.73%) Azure Functions
5 3 (2.73%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (2.73%) GCP
5 3 (2.73%) SaaS
5 3 (2.73%) Serverless
6 2 (1.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.82%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (1.82%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (1.82%) Mimecast
6 2 (1.82%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.91%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.91%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (0.91%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) WAN
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
2 1 (0.91%) LAN
2 1 (0.91%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 8 (7.27%) Relational Database
3 6 (5.45%) Oracle Database
3 6 (5.45%) RDBMS
4 4 (3.64%) DB2
4 4 (3.64%) MySQL
4 4 (3.64%) Siebel EIM
4 4 (3.64%) Sybase ASE
5 1 (0.91%) Amazon QuickSight
5 1 (0.91%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.91%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.91%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) JIRA
2 9 (8.18%) Selenium
3 7 (6.36%) Cucumber
3 7 (6.36%) Git
3 7 (6.36%) Jenkins
4 6 (5.45%) Postman
4 6 (5.45%) SpecFlow
5 5 (4.55%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.64%) Appium
6 4 (3.64%) GitLab
7 3 (2.73%) Gradle
8 2 (1.82%) Bitbucket
8 2 (1.82%) JMeter
8 2 (1.82%) JUnit
8 2 (1.82%) Subversion
8 2 (1.82%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (1.82%) TestComplete
8 2 (1.82%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.91%) MSI
9 1 (0.91%) TeamCity
General
1 43 (39.09%) Finance
2 35 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (8.18%) Banking
4 6 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.55%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.73%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.73%) Legal
6 3 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Retail
7 2 (1.82%) Back Office
7 2 (1.82%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.91%) Marketing
8 1 (0.91%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.91%) Publishing
8 1 (0.91%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 28 (25.45%) Analyst
2 23 (20.91%) Business Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) Data Business Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) Data Migration Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) Data Migration Business Analyst
3 14 (12.73%) Migration Analyst
4 12 (10.91%) Developer
5 11 (10.00%) QA Engineer
5 11 (10.00%) SharePoint Analyst
5 11 (10.00%) SharePoint Business Analyst
6 8 (7.27%) Lead
7 5 (4.55%) Finance Business Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Financial Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Financial Business Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.55%) Test Engineer
7 5 (4.55%) Tester
8 4 (3.64%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (3.64%) Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.45%) .NET
1 6 (5.45%) REST
1 6 (5.45%) Web Services
1 6 (5.45%) XML
2 3 (2.73%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.73%) AngularJS
2 3 (2.73%) JSON
2 3 (2.73%) Middleware
2 3 (2.73%) React Native
3 2 (1.82%) Behat
3 2 (1.82%) Elastic Stack
3 2 (1.82%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.82%) Jest
3 2 (1.82%) Kafka
3 2 (1.82%) RAML
3 2 (1.82%) React
3 2 (1.82%) SailPoint
3 2 (1.82%) Twitter Bootstrap
4 1 (0.91%) Dagger
4 1 (0.91%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 4 (3.64%) Linux Command Line
2 4 (3.64%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.64%) Mobile App
2 4 (3.64%) Replication
3 3 (2.73%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (2.73%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.82%) Algorithms
4 2 (1.82%) BYOD
4 2 (1.82%) Legacy Code
4 2 (1.82%) Web 2.0
5 1 (0.91%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.91%) Data Structures
5 1 (0.91%) Derivative
5 1 (0.91%) DTCC
5 1 (0.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (0.91%) IoT
5 1 (0.91%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.91%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (0.91%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 12 (10.91%) Linux
1 12 (10.91%) Windows
2 9 (8.18%) Unix
3 4 (3.64%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.91%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (27.27%) Agile
2 29 (26.36%) Test Automation
3 28 (25.45%) Migration
4 24 (21.82%) User Acceptance Testing
4 24 (21.82%) User Stories
5 23 (20.91%) Root Cause Analysis
6 21 (19.09%) Validation
7 19 (17.27%) Data Management
7 19 (17.27%) Data Migration
8 18 (16.36%) CI/CD
8 18 (16.36%) GAP Analysis
8 18 (16.36%) Requirements Gathering
9 17 (15.45%) DevOps
10 14 (12.73%) Test Strategy
11 13 (11.82%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.00%) API Testing
12 11 (10.00%) Test Scripting
13 9 (8.18%) Continuous Improvement
13 9 (8.18%) Continuous Integration
14 8 (7.27%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 26 (23.64%) SQL
2 16 (14.55%) C#
3 12 (10.91%) Java
4 11 (10.00%) Python
5 9 (8.18%) JavaScript
6 6 (5.45%) Perl
6 6 (5.45%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.73%) PHP
7 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.82%) Bash
8 2 (1.82%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.82%) PL/SQL
8 2 (1.82%) Ruby
9 1 (0.91%) C++
9 1 (0.91%) Go
Qualifications
1 10 (9.09%) Degree
1 10 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.18%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.36%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.64%) ISEB
5 3 (2.73%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.73%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.91%) CISM
6 1 (0.91%) CISSP
6 1 (0.91%) CRISC
6 1 (0.91%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (0.91%) PMP
6 1 (0.91%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (20.00%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.91%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.91%) MiFID
3 1 (0.91%) SLA
3 1 (0.91%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (3.64%) Docker
1 4 (3.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 2 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.73%) Terraform
3 2 (1.82%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Grafana
3 2 (1.82%) Graylog
3 2 (1.82%) Nagios
3 2 (1.82%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.82%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.82%) Puppet
3 2 (1.82%) SCCM
4 1 (0.91%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.91%) Nessus
4 1 (0.91%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.91%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (12.73%) Oracle
2 13 (11.82%) Microsoft
3 7 (6.36%) ServiceNow
4 6 (5.45%) SAP
5 4 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
5 4 (3.64%) Citrix
5 4 (3.64%) IBM
5 4 (3.64%) Siebel
5 4 (3.64%) Sun
5 4 (3.64%) Sybase
5 4 (3.64%) Veritas
6 3 (2.73%) Splunk
7 2 (1.82%) Adobe
7 2 (1.82%) Google
7 2 (1.82%) OpenLink
7 2 (1.82%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.91%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.91%) Cisco
8 1 (0.91%) Omniture
8 1 (0.91%) Pega