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 £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 398 458
Rank change year-on-year +21 +60 -38
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 22 40 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.18% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 32 49
10th Percentile £57 £236 £360
25th Percentile £361 £365 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £436 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% -8.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £518
90th Percentile £505 £575 £608
UK median daily rate £450 £578 £500
% change year-on-year -22.08% +15.50% +25.00%
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 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

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 31 May 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 31 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
North of England +19 9 £500 -6.80% 8
North West +24 7 £500 +150.00% 4
South West +12 5 £61 -83.96% 11
Midlands +17 3 £363 +29.46% 4
South East +10 2 - - 13
Wales - 2 £499 - 1
West Midlands - 2 £328 - 3
Scotland +29 1 - -
Yorkshire +12 1 £425 -22.73% 3
East Midlands +8 1 £363 +29.46% 1
North East +3 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 31 May 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 14 (63.64%) Test Automation
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
5 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
5 5 (22.73%) GitHub
5 5 (22.73%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
5 5 (22.73%) Selenium
6 4 (18.18%) Azure
6 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Scrum
6 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (18.18%) API Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Postman
7 3 (13.64%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (13.64%) QA Automation
7 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
7 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
7 3 (13.64%) ISO 9001
7 3 (13.64%) C#
7 3 (13.64%) Java
7 3 (13.64%) JIRA
7 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
7 3 (13.64%) TeamCity

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%) SaaS
4 2 (9.09%) Sauce Labs
5 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Internet
1 1 (4.55%) Radio Access Network
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%) JIRA
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%) JMeter
4 2 (9.09%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
5 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.55%) Mercurial
5 1 (4.55%) SpecFlow
5 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.55%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.55%) Automotive
4 1 (4.55%) Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Playwright
1 2 (9.09%) pytest
1 2 (9.09%) SOAP
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%) Web Services
2 1 (4.55%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (4.55%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 5 (22.73%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (22.73%) CI/CD
3 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
4 4 (18.18%) API Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Scrum
4 4 (18.18%) Software Testing
5 3 (13.64%) BDD
5 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
5 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
5 3 (13.64%) QA Automation
6 2 (9.09%) Black-Box Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Conversational UI
6 2 (9.09%) Fintech
6 2 (9.09%) SDET
6 2 (9.09%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) C#
2 3 (13.64%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 2 (9.09%) Python
4 1 (4.55%) C++
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 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%) BT
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle