QA Tester Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in London is £471 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 406 555
Rank change year-on-year +31 +149 -109
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 24 77 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.29% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.31% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 69 38
10th Percentile £345 £403 £300
25th Percentile £373 £538 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £628 £435
Median % change year-on-year -24.90% +44.25% +2.35%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £493
90th Percentile £576 £823 £583
England median daily rate £463 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -19.57% +53.33% -11.76%

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 16,343 24,896 37,051
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.38% 95.22% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,808 18,088 27,120
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 323 281 447
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £80.00 £67.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +4.03%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
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 Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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 - 3 £475 -
West London +21 1 £350 -
North London - 1 £385 -
South London - 1 £380 -
QA Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 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 London region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 24 (100.00%) QA
2 18 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 14 (58.33%) JIRA
3 14 (58.33%) Agile
4 12 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (45.83%) Test Management
5 11 (45.83%) BDD
5 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
6 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
7 8 (33.33%) Python
7 8 (33.33%) TDD
7 8 (33.33%) Cucumber
7 8 (33.33%) SpecFlow
7 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 7 (29.17%) Scenario Testing
8 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
8 7 (29.17%) JMeter
8 7 (29.17%) Finance
8 7 (29.17%) Scrum
9 6 (25.00%) Back Office
9 6 (25.00%) Performance Testing
9 6 (25.00%) FitNesse
9 6 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 6 (25.00%) AWS
9 6 (25.00%) Git
9 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (20.83%) Postman
10 5 (20.83%) TestRail
10 5 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Cypress.io

QA Tester 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 5 (20.83%) Confluence
2 2 (8.33%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Mingle
2 1 (4.17%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 4 (16.67%) Firebase
3 3 (12.50%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (12.50%) GCP
3 3 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 1 (4.17%) Azure
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.33%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) JIRA
2 8 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 8 (33.33%) SpecFlow
3 7 (29.17%) Jenkins
3 7 (29.17%) JMeter
4 6 (25.00%) FitNesse
4 6 (25.00%) Git
5 5 (20.83%) Cypress.io
5 5 (20.83%) Postman
5 5 (20.83%) TestRail
6 4 (16.67%) Appium
6 4 (16.67%) GitLab
7 3 (12.50%) LoadRunner
7 3 (12.50%) Selenium
7 3 (12.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (8.33%) Visual Studio
9 1 (4.17%) JUnit
9 1 (4.17%) Maven
9 1 (4.17%) SoapUI
9 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Finance
3 6 (25.00%) Back Office
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office
4 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) Middleware
1 4 (16.67%) Playwright
1 4 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (12.50%) JSON
2 3 (12.50%) REST
2 3 (12.50%) XML
3 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.17%) .NET
4 1 (4.17%) CSS
4 1 (4.17%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.17%) HTML
4 1 (4.17%) Node.js
4 1 (4.17%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (12.50%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.33%) Derivative
3 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.17%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.17%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 14 (58.33%) Agile
3 12 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (45.83%) BDD
4 11 (45.83%) CI/CD
4 11 (45.83%) Test Management
5 8 (33.33%) TDD
6 7 (29.17%) Scenario Testing
6 7 (29.17%) Scrum
7 6 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Integration Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Software Testing
8 5 (20.83%) Test Planning
8 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
8 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Analytics
9 4 (16.67%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 8 (33.33%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) TypeScript
4 3 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (4.17%) Bash
5 1 (4.17%) C#
5 1 (4.17%) Perl
5 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.17%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) ISTQB
1 5 (20.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle
2 3 (12.50%) Google
3 2 (8.33%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (8.33%) Splunk
4 1 (4.17%) Adobe
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.17%) PagerDuty
4 1 (4.17%) Qualtrics