QA Specialist Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Specialist
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Specialist daily rate in London is £375 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 500 591
Rank change year-on-year +111 +91 -134
Contract jobs requiring a QA Specialist 6 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.034% 0.007% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.008% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £263 - £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £355 £445
Median % change year-on-year +5.63% -20.22% -
75th Percentile £534 - £468
90th Percentile £619 - -
England median daily rate £195 £550 £445
% change year-on-year -64.55% +23.60% -15.24%

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 16,599 25,655 37,115
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 95.29% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,001 18,582 27,076
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £677
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 289 450
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.48
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.34 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.83% +98.96% +0.36%

QA Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Specialist in London

QA Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Specialist in London

QA Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Specialist in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Specialist in London

QA Specialist
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 Specialist within the London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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 - 2 £475 -
QA Specialist
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, QA Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Software Quality Assurance
2 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
3 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
4 2 (33.33%) CMS
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
4 2 (33.33%) User Experience
4 2 (33.33%) Use Case
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) WCAG
4 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
4 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
5 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
5 1 (16.67%) Solar Panel
5 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (16.67%) Data Science

QA Specialist 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 2 (33.33%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (16.67%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 3 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Black-Box Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Use Case
3 2 (33.33%) User Experience
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Generative AI
4 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (33.33%) WCAG
4 1 (16.67%) Data Quality