QA Tester Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in England is £459 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 515 548 697
Rank change year-on-year +33 +149 -129
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 33 120 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.089% 0.24% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.096% 0.25% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 101 64
10th Percentile £309 £334 £300
25th Percentile £354 £413 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £575 £388
Median % change year-on-year -20.22% +48.39% -8.82%
75th Percentile £555 £666 £481
90th Percentile £575 £810 £550
UK median daily rate £459 £575 £415
% change year-on-year -20.22% +38.55% -2.81%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +54 24 £471 -24.90% 6
South West +22 3 £533 +42.00% 1
Midlands +23 2 £285 -32.94% 1
North of England +11 2 £363 -10.77% 3
West Midlands +26 1 £190 -55.29% 1
Yorkshire +26 1 £325 -35.00%
East Midlands +17 1 £380 +1.33%
North West -3 1 £400 +17.65% 3
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) QA
2 24 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 18 (54.55%) Agile
4 14 (42.42%) JIRA
5 12 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (36.36%) Test Management
6 11 (33.33%) BDD
6 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
7 10 (30.30%) Scenario Testing
7 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
7 10 (30.30%) Python
8 9 (27.27%) Scrum
8 9 (27.27%) Cucumber
9 8 (24.24%) SpecFlow
9 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
9 8 (24.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (24.24%) TDD
10 7 (21.21%) Software Testing
10 7 (21.21%) JMeter
10 7 (21.21%) Finance
10 7 (21.21%) Test Scripting
10 7 (21.21%) Test Strategy
10 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
10 7 (21.21%) Postman
11 6 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
11 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
11 6 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
11 6 (18.18%) Git
11 6 (18.18%) FitNesse

QA Tester 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 5 (15.15%) Confluence
2 2 (6.06%) CMS
3 1 (3.03%) Apache
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Mingle
2 1 (3.03%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (9.09%) Endur
2 1 (3.03%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.18%) AWS
2 4 (12.12%) Azure
2 4 (12.12%) BrowserStack
2 4 (12.12%) Firebase
3 3 (9.09%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (9.09%) GCP
3 3 (9.09%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (6.06%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (3.03%) GitHub
5 1 (3.03%) Google Workspace
5 1 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.03%) SaaS
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.06%) BigQuery
3 1 (3.03%) Apache Hive
3 1 (3.03%) Big Data
3 1 (3.03%) Data Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Delta Lake
3 1 (3.03%) Hadoop
3 1 (3.03%) Metadata
3 1 (3.03%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (3.03%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (42.42%) JIRA
2 9 (27.27%) Cucumber
3 8 (24.24%) Jenkins
3 8 (24.24%) SpecFlow
4 7 (21.21%) JMeter
4 7 (21.21%) Postman
5 6 (18.18%) Cypress.io
5 6 (18.18%) FitNesse
5 6 (18.18%) Git
6 5 (15.15%) TestRail
7 4 (12.12%) Appium
7 4 (12.12%) GitLab
7 4 (12.12%) Selenium
8 3 (9.09%) LoadRunner
8 3 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (6.06%) Gatling
9 2 (6.06%) SoapUI
9 2 (6.06%) Visual Studio
10 1 (3.03%) REST Assured
10 1 (3.03%) Serenity BDD
General
1 10 (30.30%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 6 (18.18%) Back Office
4 4 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Front Office
6 1 (3.03%) Banking
6 1 (3.03%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) Playwright
2 4 (12.12%) Middleware
2 4 (12.12%) WebdriverIO
3 3 (9.09%) JSON
3 3 (9.09%) REST
3 3 (9.09%) XML
4 2 (6.06%) AngularJS
5 1 (3.03%) .NET
5 1 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (3.03%) CSS
5 1 (3.03%) GraphQL
5 1 (3.03%) HTML
5 1 (3.03%) Node.js
5 1 (3.03%) PySpark
5 1 (3.03%) Vitest
5 1 (3.03%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (9.09%) Mobile App
1 3 (9.09%) Product Ownership
1 3 (9.09%) Virtual Team
2 2 (6.06%) Derivative
3 1 (3.03%) e-Learning
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.03%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.03%) Reference Data
3 1 (3.03%) Replication
3 1 (3.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Android
1 1 (3.03%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 18 (54.55%) Agile
3 12 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (36.36%) Test Management
4 11 (33.33%) BDD
4 11 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (30.30%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (27.27%) Scrum
7 8 (24.24%) TDD
7 8 (24.24%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (21.21%) Software Testing
8 7 (21.21%) Test Scripting
8 7 (21.21%) Test Strategy
9 6 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
9 6 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (18.18%) Performance Testing
10 5 (15.15%) API Testing
10 5 (15.15%) Integration Testing
10 5 (15.15%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 10 (30.30%) JavaScript
1 10 (30.30%) Python
2 6 (18.18%) SQL
2 6 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 5 (15.15%) Java
4 1 (3.03%) Bash
4 1 (3.03%) C#
4 1 (3.03%) Perl
4 1 (3.03%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.03%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (15.15%) ISTQB
1 5 (15.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (12.12%) Security Cleared
3 3 (9.09%) Degree
3 3 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (6.06%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.06%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (3.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (6.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.03%) Kibana
1 1 (3.03%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 6 (18.18%) Oracle
2 3 (9.09%) Google
2 3 (9.09%) Splunk
3 2 (6.06%) Adobe
3 2 (6.06%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft
3 2 (6.06%) Qualtrics
3 2 (6.06%) Salesforce
4 1 (3.03%) Cloudera
4 1 (3.03%) Databricks
4 1 (3.03%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.03%) PagerDuty
4 1 (3.03%) ServiceNow