QA Contracts in Central London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 49 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 +17 +1
Contract jobs citing QA 73 102 119
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.73% 4.35% 3.21%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.98% 25.00% 23.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 79 92
10th Percentile £400 £363 £375
25th Percentile £408 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £550 £598
Median % change year-on-year -5.36% -7.95% +10.65%
75th Percentile £628 £625 £700
90th Percentile £823 £704 £750
London median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.88% +88.89% -21.05%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 348 408 509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 17.78% 17.39% 13.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 282 374
10th Percentile £361 £363 £375
25th Percentile £437 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £709
90th Percentile £800 £774 £824
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 6 1
10th Percentile £22.45 £17.96 -
25th Percentile £22.75 £20.44 -
Median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -50.98%
75th Percentile £45.62 £25.92 -
90th Percentile £69.55 £35.16 -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £23.80 £26.00
% change year-on-year +44.96% -8.46% -39.53%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for QA in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Central London

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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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 -11 70 £523 -4.95% 240
West End of London +3 2 £338 -28.95% 10
City of Westminster -1 1 £425 -10.53% 8
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London

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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 5 (6.85%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.37%) CMS
2 1 (1.37%) Drupal
2 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.37%) EViews
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) ION Anvil
2 3 (4.11%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.37%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) Azure
2 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 6 (8.22%) GitHub
5 5 (6.85%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.74%) Datadog
7 2 (2.74%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 1 (1.37%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.37%) GCP
8 1 (1.37%) IaaS
8 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
8 1 (1.37%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) LAN
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) SSL
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.48%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.74%) Data Hub
3 2 (2.74%) MySQL
3 2 (2.74%) Power Query
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.37%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.37%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.37%) PowerPivot
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) JIRA
2 8 (10.96%) Selenium
3 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) GitLab
4 5 (6.85%) Postman
5 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.11%) Git
5 3 (4.11%) JMeter
6 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.74%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.37%) eggPlant
7 1 (1.37%) Gatling
7 1 (1.37%) git-flow
7 1 (1.37%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.37%) Snyk
7 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 28 (38.36%) Finance
2 23 (31.51%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Front Office
6 6 (8.22%) Financial Institution
7 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.11%) Legal
9 2 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.74%) Law
10 1 (1.37%) Back Office
10 1 (1.37%) Billing
10 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.37%) International Banking
10 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.37%) Marketing
10 1 (1.37%) Retail
10 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) Analyst
1 14 (19.18%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Senior
3 9 (12.33%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) QA Engineer
4 7 (9.59%) DevOps Engineer
5 6 (8.22%) C# Developer
6 4 (5.48%) .NET Developer
6 4 (5.48%) C# .NET Developer
6 4 (5.48%) Product Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (5.48%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.11%) BPM Developer
7 3 (4.11%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Lead
7 3 (4.11%) Product Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.11%) QA Leader
7 3 (4.11%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) .NET
2 7 (9.59%) REST
3 5 (6.85%) CSS
3 5 (6.85%) HTML
3 5 (6.85%) WPF
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) React
5 3 (4.11%) jQuery
6 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.74%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) Middleware
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
6 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.74%) Vue
6 2 (2.74%) Web Services
7 1 (1.37%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.37%) RAML
7 1 (1.37%) Sass
7 1 (1.37%) Twig
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.96%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.85%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.74%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.37%) Derivative
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 4 (5.48%) Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Agile
2 22 (30.14%) CI/CD
2 22 (30.14%) Test Automation
3 20 (27.40%) DevOps
4 14 (19.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (17.81%) Scrum
6 12 (16.44%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (15.07%) Test Strategy
8 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.70%) Data Analysis
8 10 (13.70%) Unit Testing
9 9 (12.33%) Code Quality
9 9 (12.33%) SDLC
9 9 (12.33%) Test Scripting
10 8 (10.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.96%) Software Testing
10 8 (10.96%) Validation
11 7 (9.59%) Regression Testing
11 7 (9.59%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) C#
2 16 (21.92%) SQL
3 11 (15.07%) Python
4 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
5 7 (9.59%) Java
6 4 (5.48%) Bash
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.37%) ABAP
8 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.37%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.37%) R
8 1 (1.37%) Swift
8 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (15.07%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) GIAC
4 2 (2.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CEH
5 1 (1.37%) CFA
5 1 (1.37%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.37%) EnCE
5 1 (1.37%) GPEN
5 1 (1.37%) GXPN
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) OSCP
5 1 (1.37%) SANS
5 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 2 (2.74%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) GAAP
2 1 (1.37%) GxP
2 1 (1.37%) IFRS
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) MiFID
2 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.37%) UCITS
2 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (9.59%) Terraform
2 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
3 4 (5.48%) Ansible
4 1 (1.37%) Argo
4 1 (1.37%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.37%) EnCase
4 1 (1.37%) FTK
4 1 (1.37%) Grafana
4 1 (1.37%) Istio
4 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) ION Trading
4 3 (4.11%) OpenText
4 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) Databricks
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Workday
6 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.37%) Cellebrite
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Duck Creek
6 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.37%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) New Relic
6 1 (1.37%) Nuix
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.37%) Talend
6 1 (1.37%) UiPath