QA Engineer Contracts in Central London

Quality Assurance Engineer
London > Central London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Central London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 125 164
Rank change year-on-year +5 +39 +30
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 9 8 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.45% 0.33% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.49% 0.34% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £355 £358
25th Percentile £400 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £546
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -17.58% -24.69%
75th Percentile £580 £488 £613
90th Percentile £585 £500 £625
London median daily rate £475 £438 £628
% change year-on-year +8.57% -30.28% +16.47%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 1,852 2,329 3,676
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 95.22% 95.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,192 1,658 2,523
10th Percentile £350 £350 £325
25th Percentile £454 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
75th Percentile £675 £682 £725
90th Percentile £775 £794 £813
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 32 26
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.95 £15.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £21.81 £18.93
Median hourly rate £29.07 £25.78 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.76% -26.34% -6.04%
75th Percentile £35.00 £27.81 £58.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £43.38 £86.65
London median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in Central London

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Central 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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
City of London +9 9 £500 +11.11% 2
QA Engineer
London

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Central London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 4 (44.44%) Selenium
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) SQL
4 4 (44.44%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Postman
5 3 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
5 3 (33.33%) C#
5 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) GitHub
6 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
6 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
1 4 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub
2 3 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Tricentis Tosca
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) GCP
4 1 (11.11%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (11.11%) Power Automate
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
4 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (11.11%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SAP Data Services
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) LoadRunner
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Pandas
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) pytest
1 1 (11.11%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (55.56%) Test Strategy
4 4 (44.44%) Agile
4 4 (44.44%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (44.44%) DevOps
4 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (22.22%) Machine Learning
6 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Migration
6 2 (22.22%) Natural Language Processing
6 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Scrum
6 2 (22.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Python
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 3 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
3 1 (11.11%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) SAP