QA Engineer Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in England 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 467 480 611
Rank change year-on-year +13 +131 -95
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 78 179 156
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.21% 0.35% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.37% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 160 133
10th Percentile £300 £298 £382
25th Percentile £363 £411 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +20.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £500 £707 £575
90th Percentile £538 £810 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile £24.98 - -
25th Percentile £31.75 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £44.61 £50.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -10.79% +10.62% +0.44%
75th Percentile £59.02 £55.00 -
90th Percentile £66.73 - -
UK median hourly rate £44.61 £50.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.79% +10.62% +0.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing QA Engineer in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for QA Engineer in England

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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 +36 57 £445 -29.08% 17
North of England +15 10 £500 -10.31% 15
North West +26 8 £500 +150.00% 10
South West +27 5 £61 - 6
South East +23 2 £275 -42.11% 14
East of England +12 2 £475 -5.00% 4
West Midlands +31 1 £375 -23.08% 5
Yorkshire +16 1 £425 -22.73% 4
Midlands +14 1 £375 +57.89% 6
North East +7 1 - - 1
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

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 England region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 78 (100.00%) QA
2 55 (70.51%) Test Automation
3 36 (46.15%) Agile
4 25 (32.05%) CI/CD
5 23 (29.49%) Python
6 18 (23.08%) Jenkins
7 17 (21.79%) Java
7 17 (21.79%) Cucumber
7 17 (21.79%) JIRA
8 15 (19.23%) Data Protection Act
8 15 (19.23%) Selenium
8 15 (19.23%) Data Protection
9 14 (17.95%) Test Scripting
9 14 (17.95%) Git
9 14 (17.95%) AWS
9 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
10 13 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
10 13 (16.67%) API Testing
10 13 (16.67%) BDD
10 13 (16.67%) Software Testing
11 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
11 12 (15.38%) Regression Testing
11 12 (15.38%) Postman
12 11 (14.10%) Scrum
13 10 (12.82%) SQL
13 10 (12.82%) Performance Testing
13 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
13 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
14 9 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
14 9 (11.54%) Appium

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (7.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Endur
2 1 (1.28%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) AWS
2 6 (7.69%) BrowserStack
3 5 (6.41%) Azure
3 5 (6.41%) GitHub
3 5 (6.41%) Serverless
4 4 (5.13%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (5.13%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (3.85%) SaaS
5 3 (3.85%) Sauce Labs
6 2 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.28%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.41%) Internet
2 4 (5.13%) 5G
2 4 (5.13%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (3.85%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.13%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.28%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (23.08%) Jenkins
2 17 (21.79%) Cucumber
2 17 (21.79%) JIRA
3 15 (19.23%) Selenium
4 14 (17.95%) Git
5 12 (15.38%) Postman
6 9 (11.54%) Appium
7 8 (10.26%) Cypress.io
8 7 (8.97%) SpecFlow
9 5 (6.41%) Bitbucket
9 5 (6.41%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (5.13%) JMeter
10 4 (5.13%) XCTest
11 3 (3.85%) Gatling
11 3 (3.85%) GitLab
11 3 (3.85%) REST Assured
11 3 (3.85%) TeamCity
12 2 (2.56%) Octopus Deploy
12 2 (2.56%) TestRail
12 2 (2.56%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (17.95%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
3 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.13%) Back Office
4 4 (5.13%) Banking
5 2 (2.56%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.28%) Automotive
6 1 (1.28%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.28%) Games
6 1 (1.28%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.28%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.97%) JSON
2 6 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 6 (7.69%) Playwright
2 6 (7.69%) XML
3 5 (6.41%) Jest
3 5 (6.41%) Node.js
3 5 (6.41%) React Native
4 4 (5.13%) REST
4 4 (5.13%) RESTful
5 3 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
6 2 (2.56%) .NET
6 2 (2.56%) AngularJS
6 2 (2.56%) Behat
6 2 (2.56%) CSS
6 2 (2.56%) HTML
6 2 (2.56%) Middleware
6 2 (2.56%) pytest
6 2 (2.56%) React
6 2 (2.56%) SwiftUI
7 1 (1.28%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 15 (19.23%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (6.41%) Product Ownership
3 4 (5.13%) Mobile App
3 4 (5.13%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.56%) Derivative
5 1 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.28%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.28%) Replication
5 1 (1.28%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.97%) Apple iOS
2 5 (6.41%) Android
3 2 (2.56%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.56%) Unix
4 1 (1.28%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (70.51%) Test Automation
2 36 (46.15%) Agile
3 25 (32.05%) CI/CD
4 15 (19.23%) Data Protection
5 14 (17.95%) Test Scripting
6 13 (16.67%) API Testing
6 13 (16.67%) BDD
6 13 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
6 13 (16.67%) Software Testing
7 12 (15.38%) Regression Testing
8 11 (14.10%) Scrum
9 10 (12.82%) Performance Testing
10 9 (11.54%) Non-Functional Testing
10 9 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
11 8 (10.26%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (10.26%) Fintech
11 8 (10.26%) Functional Testing
11 8 (10.26%) SDET
12 7 (8.97%) QA Automation
13 6 (7.69%) Code Quality
Programming Languages
1 23 (29.49%) Python
2 17 (21.79%) Java
3 12 (15.38%) JavaScript
4 10 (12.82%) SQL
5 6 (7.69%) Swift
5 6 (7.69%) TypeScript
6 5 (6.41%) C#
7 4 (5.13%) Bash
7 4 (5.13%) C++
8 3 (3.85%) C
9 2 (2.56%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.56%) Perl
9 2 (2.56%) PHP
9 2 (2.56%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) SC Cleared
1 10 (12.82%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.41%) Degree
3 3 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.56%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (7.69%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (3.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.85%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 2 (2.56%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.28%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (3.85%) Oracle
1 3 (3.85%) Perfecto Mobile
2 2 (2.56%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (2.56%) PagerDuty
3 1 (1.28%) Apple
3 1 (1.28%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft
3 1 (1.28%) OpenLink
3 1 (1.28%) Splunk
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