QA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 38 44
Rank change year-on-year -7 +6 +22
Contract jobs citing QA 87 96 125
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.05% 4.62% 4.49%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.37% 28.83% 28.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 57 104
10th Percentile £385 £349 £368
25th Percentile £405 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £551
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% - -6.30%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £695
90th Percentile £734 £756 £746
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +4.55% -1.79% -3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 357 333 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.71% 16.01% 15.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 185 330
10th Percentile £325 £349 £398
25th Percentile £414 £450 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £560 £580
Median % change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% -2.32%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £695
90th Percentile £826 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £591
% change year-on-year - -6.98% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £26.53 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -1.49% -51.72% +249.40%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

QA job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.05%) Confluence
2 3 (3.45%) CMS
2 3 (3.45%) Drupal
3 2 (2.30%) WordPress
4 1 (1.15%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.15%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.60%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.30%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (2.30%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.30%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.30%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.15%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.15%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (1.15%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (17.24%) Azure
2 12 (13.79%) AWS
3 9 (10.34%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.60%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.30%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.30%) Figma
5 2 (2.30%) GitHub
5 2 (2.30%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.30%) Miro
5 2 (2.30%) SaaS
5 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.15%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.15%) GCP
6 1 (1.15%) IaaS
6 1 (1.15%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.15%) LAN
1 1 (1.15%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (1.15%) SSL
1 1 (1.15%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.49%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.60%) MySQL
2 4 (4.60%) Power BI
3 2 (2.30%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.30%) Tableau
4 1 (1.15%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.15%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.15%) Informix
4 1 (1.15%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 13 (14.94%) JIRA
2 7 (8.05%) Cucumber
2 7 (8.05%) Selenium
3 5 (5.75%) Git
4 4 (4.60%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.60%) GitLab
4 4 (4.60%) Postman
5 3 (3.45%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.45%) JMeter
6 2 (2.30%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.30%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.30%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.30%) Storybook
6 2 (2.30%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.15%) Fiddler
7 1 (1.15%) git-flow
7 1 (1.15%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.15%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.15%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.15%) TestNG
General
1 46 (52.87%) Finance
2 31 (35.63%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.69%) Banking
4 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.64%) Front Office
6 7 (8.05%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.75%) Investment Banking
7 5 (5.75%) Legal
7 5 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Back Office
8 4 (4.60%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.60%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.45%) Law
10 2 (2.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.15%) General Ledger
11 1 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (26.44%) Analyst
2 17 (19.54%) Business Analyst
3 11 (12.64%) Developer
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Lead
6 5 (5.75%) Consultant
6 5 (5.75%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (5.75%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.60%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.45%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.45%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.34%) .NET
2 7 (8.05%) CSS
2 7 (8.05%) HTML
2 7 (8.05%) REST
3 6 (6.90%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.90%) React
4 3 (3.45%) jQuery
4 3 (3.45%) Playwright
4 3 (3.45%) RESTful
5 2 (2.30%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.30%) CSS3
5 2 (2.30%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.30%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.30%) HTML5
5 2 (2.30%) JSON
5 2 (2.30%) Middleware
5 2 (2.30%) SOAP
5 2 (2.30%) Spring
5 2 (2.30%) Web Services
5 2 (2.30%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.94%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.90%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.45%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.45%) CMDB
4 3 (3.45%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.45%) PMI
5 2 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.30%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.15%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.15%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.15%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.15%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 2 (2.30%) Unix
3 1 (1.15%) Android
3 1 (1.15%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.15%) Linux
3 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (55.17%) Agile
2 23 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (22.99%) Scrum
5 19 (21.84%) CI/CD
5 19 (21.84%) Test Automation
6 18 (20.69%) DevOps
7 16 (18.39%) User Stories
8 14 (16.09%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (14.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (14.94%) Validation
10 11 (12.64%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (12.64%) Test Scripting
10 11 (12.64%) Test Strategy
11 10 (11.49%) Migration
11 10 (11.49%) Scenario Testing
12 9 (10.34%) Data Analysis
12 9 (10.34%) Performance Testing
13 8 (9.20%) Data Mapping
13 8 (9.20%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 17 (19.54%) SQL
2 16 (18.39%) C#
3 13 (14.94%) Java
4 12 (13.79%) JavaScript
5 6 (6.90%) Python
5 6 (6.90%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.45%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.30%) Go
8 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.15%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) Degree
2 5 (5.75%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.45%) CBAP
4 3 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.45%) ISTQB
5 2 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.30%) PMP
6 1 (1.15%) APMG
6 1 (1.15%) CFA
6 1 (1.15%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.15%) GIAC
6 1 (1.15%) IIBA
6 1 (1.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.15%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.15%) SANS
6 1 (1.15%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.45%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.45%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.45%) PMO
1 3 (3.45%) PSD2
2 2 (2.30%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.30%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.30%) WCAG
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.15%) GAAP
3 1 (1.15%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.15%) IFRS
3 1 (1.15%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.15%) SEPA
3 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
2 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.30%) Istio
2 2 (2.30%) Terraform
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Argo
3 1 (1.15%) Grafana
3 1 (1.15%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.15%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (12.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (8.05%) Oracle
3 6 (6.90%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.45%) Databricks
4 3 (3.45%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.45%) UiPath
5 2 (2.30%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) Informatica
5 2 (2.30%) OpenText
5 2 (2.30%) Pega
5 2 (2.30%) Talend
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.15%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.15%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.15%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.15%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.15%) SAP
6 1 (1.15%) SmartStream
6 1 (1.15%) Workday