QA Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £483 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 371 403 459
Rank change year-on-year +32 +56 -60
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 22 55 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.23% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 44 45
10th Percentile £57 £231 £363
25th Percentile £363 £278 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £439 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.97% -2.50% +5.88%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £505
90th Percentile £504 £585 £606
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -21.74% +15.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £20.46 - £45.20
UK median hourly rate £44.61 £50.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.79% +10.62% +0.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,140 22,709 29,694
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.65% 94.17% 95.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,706 15,914 20,771
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.93% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,220 1,177 1,493
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.06
25th Percentile £15.70 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.20
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in the UK excluding London

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England +21 10 £500 -10.31% 15
North West +22 8 £500 +150.00% 10
South West +26 5 £61 - 8
South East +24 2 £275 -42.11% 14
Wales - 2 £499 - 3
West Midlands +30 1 £375 -23.08% 5
Scotland +24 1 - - 3
Yorkshire +16 1 £425 -22.73% 4
East of England +15 1 £475 -5.00% 4
Midlands +9 1 £375 +57.89% 7
North East +6 1 - - 1
QA Engineer
UK

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 22 (100.00%) QA
2 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
3 8 (36.36%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
5 5 (22.73%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (22.73%) GitHub
5 5 (22.73%) API Testing
5 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 5 (22.73%) Selenium
6 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 4 (18.18%) Azure
6 4 (18.18%) C#
6 4 (18.18%) Java
6 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Scrum
6 4 (18.18%) QA Automation
6 4 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
6 4 (18.18%) Postman
6 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
7 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
7 3 (13.64%) BDD
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
7 3 (13.64%) Python
7 3 (13.64%) ISO 9001

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) GitHub
2 4 (18.18%) Azure
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (9.09%) BrowserStack
4 2 (9.09%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (4.55%) AWS
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Selenium
2 4 (18.18%) Postman
3 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
3 3 (13.64%) Git
3 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
3 3 (13.64%) TeamCity
4 2 (9.09%) Appium
4 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 2 (9.09%) Cypress.io
4 2 (9.09%) GitLab
4 2 (9.09%) JIRA
4 2 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.55%) JMeter
5 1 (4.55%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.55%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Finance
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Playwright
1 2 (9.09%) pytest
1 2 (9.09%) WebdriverIO
2 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) Jest
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) RESTful
2 1 (4.55%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.55%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Test Automation
2 8 (36.36%) Agile
3 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 5 (22.73%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (22.73%) API Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (18.18%) QA Automation
5 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Scrum
5 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 3 (13.64%) BDD
6 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (13.64%) Software Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
7 2 (9.09%) Black-Box Testing
7 2 (9.09%) DevOps
7 2 (9.09%) Fintech
7 2 (9.09%) SDET
7 2 (9.09%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) C#
2 4 (18.18%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) Python
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) ISO 9001
3 2 (9.09%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 2 (9.09%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle