QA Tester Contract Job Trends in Canary Wharf

Quality Assurance Tester
Tower Hamlets > Canary Wharf

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in Canary Wharf is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Canary Wharf 2.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £400 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Canary Wharf

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Canary Wharf. 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 Canary Wharf with a recognized job title 50 49 45
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 85.96% 72.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 42
10th Percentile £369 £360 £273
25th Percentile £432 £495 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £585 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.71% +8.33% -6.09%
75th Percentile £775 £675 £595
90th Percentile - £1,000 £747
Tower Hamlets median daily rate £590 £585 £540
% change year-on-year +0.85% +8.33% -6.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
Tower Hamlets median hourly rate - £43.50 -

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Canary Wharf

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'QA Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Canary Wharf.

QA Tester job vacancy trend in Canary Wharf

QA Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Canary Wharf

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Tester job vacancies in Canary Wharf.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Tester job vacancies in Canary Wharf

QA Tester Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf

For the 6 months to 19 September 2026, QA Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Canary Wharf region featuring QA Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation

QA Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Canary Wharf by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Build Automation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP