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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 42 75
Rank change year-on-year -26 +33 -19
Contract jobs citing QA 62 114 106
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 3.10% 4.66% 2.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 19.75% 27.01% 21.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 88 78
10th Percentile £400 £371 £343
25th Percentile £457 £475 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.09% +0.36% +9.60%
75th Percentile £712 £625 £687
90th Percentile £825 £693 £791
London median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £42.50 -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £25.37 £22.49
% change year-on-year +37.96% +12.83% -36.66%

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 314 422 492
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 15.72% 17.25% 12.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 301 356
10th Percentile £360 £363 £375
25th Percentile £456 £463 £487
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £688 £663 £725
90th Percentile £800 £775 £838
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £19.36 £17.96 £21.40
25th Percentile £21.25 £20.44 £22.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.43% -45.98%
75th Percentile £24.25 £25.92 £24.50
90th Percentile - £35.16 £24.80
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%

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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 May 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 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 -25 59 £550 - 36
West End of London - 3 £425 - 4
City of Westminster +1 2 £450 -12.20% 1
Southwark -3 2 £425 -15.00%
QA
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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.61%) CMS
2 1 (1.61%) Umbraco
2 1 (1.61%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.23%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.61%) EViews
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (3.23%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.61%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.61%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.61%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.61%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.52%) Azure
2 7 (11.29%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.68%) GitHub
3 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.06%) AWS
4 5 (8.06%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.84%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (4.84%) GCP
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (3.23%) Datadog
6 2 (3.23%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.61%) Asana
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.61%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (1.61%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.61%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.61%) SonarCloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Firewall
1 1 (1.61%) HTTP
1 1 (1.61%) LAN
1 1 (1.61%) VPN
1 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.68%) Power BI
2 4 (6.45%) SQL Server
3 3 (4.84%) Tableau
4 2 (3.23%) Data Hub
4 2 (3.23%) Data Mining
4 2 (3.23%) Power Query
5 1 (1.61%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.61%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.61%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.61%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Delta Lake
5 1 (1.61%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (1.61%) GIS
5 1 (1.61%) Looker
5 1 (1.61%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.61%) PowerPivot
5 1 (1.61%) SAP Data Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Selenium
2 7 (11.29%) Jenkins
3 6 (9.68%) JIRA
4 4 (6.45%) GitLab
4 4 (6.45%) Postman
5 3 (4.84%) Cypress.io
5 3 (4.84%) JMeter
6 2 (3.23%) Bitbucket
6 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.23%) LoadRunner
6 2 (3.23%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.61%) eggPlant
7 1 (1.61%) Gatling
7 1 (1.61%) Git
7 1 (1.61%) PHPUnit
7 1 (1.61%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.61%) Snyk
7 1 (1.61%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.61%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.61%) Terragrunt
General
1 20 (32.26%) Finance
1 20 (32.26%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Front Office
4 5 (8.06%) Investment Banking
4 5 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.45%) Back Office
5 4 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.84%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.61%) Billing
7 1 (1.61%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.61%) Marketing
7 1 (1.61%) Military
7 1 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
7 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (17.74%) Senior
2 10 (16.13%) Analyst
3 9 (14.52%) QA Engineer
4 7 (11.29%) Business Analyst
4 7 (11.29%) Developer
5 6 (9.68%) DevOps Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) GCP Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Lead
7 3 (4.84%) Project Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Test Manager
7 3 (4.84%) Tester
8 2 (3.23%) Architect
8 2 (3.23%) C# .NET Developer
8 2 (3.23%) C# GUI Developer
8 2 (3.23%) C# WPF Developer
8 2 (3.23%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) .NET
2 3 (4.84%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (4.84%) FpML
2 3 (4.84%) REST
2 3 (4.84%) WPF
3 2 (3.23%) CSS
3 2 (3.23%) HTML
3 2 (3.23%) JSON
3 2 (3.23%) Kafka
3 2 (3.23%) Playwright
3 2 (3.23%) Web Services
4 1 (1.61%) FHIR
4 1 (1.61%) Jest
4 1 (1.61%) Lightning Web Components
4 1 (1.61%) MUnit
4 1 (1.61%) Pandas
4 1 (1.61%) PySpark
4 1 (1.61%) pytest
4 1 (1.61%) RAML
4 1 (1.61%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.29%) Product Ownership
2 5 (8.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (6.45%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.84%) Digital Media
4 3 (4.84%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.23%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.23%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.61%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.61%) Derivative
6 1 (1.61%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 1 (1.61%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.61%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.61%) Sports Betting
6 1 (1.61%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.45%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (35.48%) Test Automation
2 20 (32.26%) Agile
3 19 (30.65%) CI/CD
4 14 (22.58%) DevOps
5 11 (17.74%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.74%) Test Strategy
5 11 (17.74%) Validation
6 9 (14.52%) Software Testing
7 8 (12.90%) Business Intelligence
7 8 (12.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (12.90%) Scrum
7 8 (12.90%) Test Scripting
7 8 (12.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (11.29%) Data Analysis
8 7 (11.29%) SDLC
9 6 (9.68%) Migration
9 6 (9.68%) Project Management
9 6 (9.68%) Service Delivery
10 5 (8.06%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.81%) SQL
2 15 (24.19%) Python
3 11 (17.74%) C#
4 5 (8.06%) Java
4 5 (8.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (6.45%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) ABAP
6 1 (1.61%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.61%) PHP
6 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.61%) R
6 1 (1.61%) VBA
Qualifications
1 9 (14.52%) Degree
2 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.23%) EnCE
3 2 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (3.23%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.23%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.61%) CEH
4 1 (1.61%) CFA
4 1 (1.61%) GIAC
4 1 (1.61%) GPEN
4 1 (1.61%) GXPN
4 1 (1.61%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.61%) Master's Degree
4 1 (1.61%) OSCP
4 1 (1.61%) PgMP
4 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 2 (3.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.61%) GDPR
3 1 (1.61%) GxP
3 1 (1.61%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.61%) MiFID
3 1 (1.61%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.61%) UCITS
System Software
1 6 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (9.68%) Kubernetes
1 6 (9.68%) Terraform
2 5 (8.06%) Ansible
3 2 (3.23%) EnCase
3 2 (3.23%) FTK
4 1 (1.61%) Argo
4 1 (1.61%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.61%) Grafana
4 1 (1.61%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.84%) Oracle
2 3 (4.84%) Salesforce
2 3 (4.84%) Workday
3 2 (3.23%) Cellebrite
3 2 (3.23%) Google
3 2 (3.23%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.23%) Nuix
3 2 (3.23%) SAP
4 1 (1.61%) Advent
4 1 (1.61%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.61%) Cisco
4 1 (1.61%) Databricks
4 1 (1.61%) ESRI
4 1 (1.61%) Guidewire
4 1 (1.61%) Informatica
4 1 (1.61%) New Relic
4 1 (1.61%) SimCorp
4 1 (1.61%) Splunk
4 1 (1.61%) Talend