QA Contracts in South London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 37 50
Rank change year-on-year +2 +13 -29
Contract jobs citing QA 6 15 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.46% 3.81% 1.35%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 37.50% 30.61% 11.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 12 4
10th Percentile - £374 £296
25th Percentile - £535 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £569 £410
Median % change year-on-year -33.19% +38.72% -25.45%
75th Percentile - £703 £468
90th Percentile - £748 £472
London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £26.24 £22.49 £32.50
% change year-on-year +16.70% -30.82% +62.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in South London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 16 49 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 6.56% 12.44% 11.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 37 23
10th Percentile - £131 £264
25th Percentile £200 £313 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £428 £430 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.58% -14.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £533 £550 £619
90th Percentile £616 £708 £810
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £24.50 £30.75 £44.50
% change year-on-year -20.33% -30.90% +122.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for QA in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for QA in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South London region over the 6 months to 6 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
Croydon +4 3 £380 -29.63% 5
Bromley +4 2 - - 1
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Mimecast
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) 4G
1 1 (16.67%) 5G
1 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Git
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Information Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
2 1 (16.67%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Security Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Project Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Agile
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 2 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (16.67%) Data Modelling
2 1 (16.67%) Incident Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Management
2 1 (16.67%) Information Security
2 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Refactoring
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Service Management
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (16.67%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Bash
3 2 (33.33%) C
3 2 (33.33%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (16.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (16.67%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Darktrace
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Qualys
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk