QA Engineer Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in London is £440 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 362 495
Rank change year-on-year +23 +133 -97
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 55 133 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.49% 0.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.52% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 126 93
10th Percentile £347 £350 £401
25th Percentile £375 £500 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £628 £538
Median % change year-on-year -29.88% +16.74% +19.44%
75th Percentile £525 £738 £575
90th Percentile £545 £810 £588
England median daily rate £440 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -26.67% +20.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 £45.00 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.61 £50.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.79% +10.62% +0.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,503 25,805 37,110
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.30% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,697 27,064
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 292 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £17.98 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.99% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.83 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 27 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
Central London +40 9 £450 -17.58%
West London - 2 £375 -
South London +9 1 - -
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) QA
2 39 (70.91%) Test Automation
3 25 (45.45%) Agile
4 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
5 17 (30.91%) Python
6 16 (29.09%) Jenkins
7 15 (27.27%) Data Protection
7 15 (27.27%) JIRA
7 15 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
8 14 (25.45%) Cucumber
9 13 (23.64%) Scenario Testing
10 11 (20.00%) Git
10 11 (20.00%) AWS
10 11 (20.00%) Java
11 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
11 10 (18.18%) Selenium
11 10 (18.18%) Software Testing
11 10 (18.18%) Test Scripting
11 10 (18.18%) BDD
11 10 (18.18%) Postman
12 9 (16.36%) API Testing
12 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
12 9 (16.36%) Non-Functional Testing
12 9 (16.36%) Scrum
12 9 (16.36%) Regression Testing
13 8 (14.55%) Performance Testing
14 7 (12.73%) JSON
14 7 (12.73%) Cypress.io
14 7 (12.73%) Apple iOS
14 7 (12.73%) Appium

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (7.27%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 11 (20.00%) AWS
2 5 (9.09%) Serverless
3 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (7.27%) BrowserStack
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) Azure
5 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.64%) GCP
5 2 (3.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.82%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) 5G
1 4 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) Relational Database
1 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (29.09%) Jenkins
2 15 (27.27%) JIRA
3 14 (25.45%) Cucumber
4 11 (20.00%) Git
5 10 (18.18%) Postman
5 10 (18.18%) Selenium
6 7 (12.73%) Appium
6 7 (12.73%) Cypress.io
7 6 (10.91%) SpecFlow
8 4 (7.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (7.27%) XCTest
9 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.45%) Gatling
9 3 (5.45%) JMeter
9 3 (5.45%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.64%) FitNesse
10 2 (3.64%) TestRail
10 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
11 1 (1.82%) GitLab
11 1 (1.82%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 9 (16.36%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (7.27%) Back Office
2 4 (7.27%) Finance
3 3 (5.45%) Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.82%) Games
4 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) JSON
2 6 (10.91%) XML
3 5 (9.09%) Gherkin
3 5 (9.09%) Jest
3 5 (9.09%) Playwright
3 5 (9.09%) React Native
4 4 (7.27%) Node.js
4 4 (7.27%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) .NET
5 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.64%) Behat
5 2 (3.64%) CSS
5 2 (3.64%) HTML
5 2 (3.64%) Middleware
5 2 (3.64%) React
5 2 (3.64%) SwiftUI
6 1 (1.82%) Next.js
6 1 (1.82%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.82%) RESTful
6 1 (1.82%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.64%) Derivative
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Replication
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.73%) Apple iOS
2 5 (9.09%) Android
3 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.64%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (70.91%) Test Automation
2 25 (45.45%) Agile
3 18 (32.73%) CI/CD
4 15 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 13 (23.64%) Scenario Testing
6 10 (18.18%) BDD
6 10 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 10 (18.18%) Test Scripting
7 9 (16.36%) API Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Non-Functional Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Regression Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Scrum
8 8 (14.55%) Performance Testing
9 7 (12.73%) Functional Testing
10 6 (10.91%) Fintech
10 6 (10.91%) Integration Testing
10 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (9.09%) DevOps
11 5 (9.09%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 11 (20.00%) Java
3 10 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 6 (10.91%) Swift
4 6 (10.91%) TypeScript
5 5 (9.09%) SQL
6 4 (7.27%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) C++
7 3 (5.45%) C
8 2 (3.64%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 2 (3.64%) PHP
8 2 (3.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.82%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) SC Cleared
1 6 (10.91%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.27%) Degree
3 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (5.45%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.82%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle
1 2 (3.64%) PagerDuty
2 1 (1.82%) Apple
2 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.82%) OpenLink
2 1 (1.82%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (1.82%) Splunk