QA Tester Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in London is £468 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 408 558
Rank change year-on-year +33 +150 -108
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 25 80 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.30% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.32% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 71 39
10th Percentile £350 £400 £300
25th Percentile £380 £538 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £628 £445
Median % change year-on-year -25.50% +41.01% -1.11%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £506
90th Percentile - £823 £600
England median daily rate £456 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -20.65% +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 16,495 25,012 36,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.24% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,143 26,715
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £684
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 328 281 442
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.00 £68.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

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 9 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 9 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 - 1
West London +22 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 9 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 25 (100.00%) QA
2 18 (72.00%) Test Automation
3 15 (60.00%) Agile
4 14 (56.00%) JIRA
5 12 (48.00%) Test Management
5 12 (48.00%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (44.00%) BDD
6 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
7 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
7 9 (36.00%) Python
8 8 (32.00%) TDD
8 8 (32.00%) SpecFlow
8 8 (32.00%) Cucumber
8 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
8 8 (32.00%) Scenario Testing
9 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
9 7 (28.00%) JMeter
9 7 (28.00%) Finance
9 7 (28.00%) Scrum
10 6 (24.00%) Back Office
10 6 (24.00%) Performance Testing
10 6 (24.00%) FitNesse
10 6 (24.00%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
10 6 (24.00%) AWS
10 6 (24.00%) Git
10 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (20.00%) Postman
11 5 (20.00%) TestRail
11 5 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing

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 (20.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Mingle
2 1 (4.00%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 6 (24.00%) AWS
2 4 (16.00%) BrowserStack
2 4 (16.00%) Firebase
3 3 (12.00%) BlazeMeter
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) Azure
4 2 (8.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 14 (56.00%) JIRA
2 8 (32.00%) Cucumber
2 8 (32.00%) SpecFlow
3 7 (28.00%) Jenkins
3 7 (28.00%) JMeter
4 6 (24.00%) FitNesse
4 6 (24.00%) Git
5 5 (20.00%) Cypress.io
5 5 (20.00%) Postman
5 5 (20.00%) TestRail
6 4 (16.00%) Appium
6 4 (16.00%) GitLab
7 3 (12.00%) LoadRunner
7 3 (12.00%) Selenium
7 3 (12.00%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (8.00%) Gatling
8 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio
9 1 (4.00%) JUnit
9 1 (4.00%) REST Assured
9 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 8 (32.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Back Office
4 4 (16.00%) Public Sector
5 3 (12.00%) Front Office
6 2 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (4.00%) Banking
7 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Middleware
1 4 (16.00%) Playwright
1 4 (16.00%) WebdriverIO
2 3 (12.00%) JSON
2 3 (12.00%) REST
2 3 (12.00%) XML
3 2 (8.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.00%) .NET
4 1 (4.00%) CSS
4 1 (4.00%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.00%) HTML
4 1 (4.00%) Node.js
4 1 (4.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (12.00%) Virtual Team
2 2 (8.00%) Derivative
2 2 (8.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (4.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (72.00%) Test Automation
2 15 (60.00%) Agile
3 12 (48.00%) Continuous Integration
3 12 (48.00%) Test Management
4 11 (44.00%) BDD
4 11 (44.00%) CI/CD
5 8 (32.00%) Scenario Testing
5 8 (32.00%) TDD
6 7 (28.00%) Scrum
7 6 (24.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Performance Testing
7 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (24.00%) Test Strategy
8 5 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Integration Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 5 (20.00%) Test Planning
8 5 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (16.00%) Analytics
9 4 (16.00%) Dependency Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (36.00%) JavaScript
1 9 (36.00%) Python
2 5 (20.00%) Java
2 5 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 3 (12.00%) SQL
4 1 (4.00%) Bash
4 1 (4.00%) C#
4 1 (4.00%) Perl
4 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 5 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (16.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (12.00%) Degree
3 3 (12.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (8.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle
2 3 (12.00%) Google
2 3 (12.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Adobe
3 2 (8.00%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (8.00%) Qualtrics
4 1 (4.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.00%) PagerDuty