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 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 42 39
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 +31
Contract jobs citing QA 90 95 123
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.01% 4.53% 4.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.06% 29.32% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 54 102
10th Percentile £359 £348 £366
25th Percentile £405 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +4.55% -6.38%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £685
90th Percentile £825 £793 £749
Central London median daily rate £591 £571 £550
% change year-on-year +3.50% +3.86% -4.35%
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 374 324 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.80% 15.47% 16.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 264 173 303
10th Percentile £316 £348 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £568 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.49% -1.30% -1.50%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £26.52 - -
25th Percentile £26.55 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £31.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £40.81 - £73.75
90th Percentile £50.38 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.86% -51.72% +271.79%

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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 14 December 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 8 (8.89%) Confluence
2 3 (3.33%) CMS
3 2 (2.22%) Drupal
3 2 (2.22%) WordPress
4 1 (1.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.11%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.44%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.22%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.22%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.11%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.11%) Azure
2 8 (8.89%) AWS
3 7 (7.78%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.67%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.33%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.22%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.22%) Figma
6 2 (2.22%) GitHub
6 2 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.22%) Miro
6 2 (2.22%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.22%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.11%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.11%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.11%) GCP
7 1 (1.11%) SaaS
7 1 (1.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.33%) LAN
1 3 (3.33%) WAN
1 3 (3.33%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.67%) Power BI
2 3 (3.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.33%) Tableau
3 2 (2.22%) MySQL
3 2 (2.22%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.11%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.11%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.11%) Informix
4 1 (1.11%) Power Query
4 1 (1.11%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.11%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 17 (18.89%) JIRA
2 8 (8.89%) Selenium
3 7 (7.78%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.44%) Git
5 4 (4.44%) Postman
6 3 (3.33%) Bitbucket
6 3 (3.33%) GitLab
6 3 (3.33%) JMeter
7 2 (2.22%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.22%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.22%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.22%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.22%) Storybook
7 2 (2.22%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.11%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 49 (54.44%) Finance
2 31 (34.44%) Social Skills
3 19 (21.11%) Banking
4 16 (17.78%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.22%) Front Office
6 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.44%) Back Office
8 4 (4.44%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.44%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.33%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.33%) Legal
9 3 (3.33%) Military
10 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.11%) Law
11 1 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.11%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (26.67%) Analyst
2 16 (17.78%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.89%) Lead
3 8 (8.89%) Senior
4 7 (7.78%) Developer
5 6 (6.67%) Architect
5 6 (6.67%) Consultant
6 5 (5.56%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (5.56%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.56%) Test Analyst
6 5 (5.56%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.44%) Tester
8 3 (3.33%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Network Architect
8 3 (3.33%) Payments Business Analyst
8 3 (3.33%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.33%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.56%) Playwright
2 4 (4.44%) CSS
2 4 (4.44%) HTML
3 3 (3.33%) .NET
3 3 (3.33%) REST
4 2 (2.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.22%) CSS3
4 2 (2.22%) Express.js
4 2 (2.22%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.22%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.22%) HTML5
4 2 (2.22%) Jest
4 2 (2.22%) JSON
4 2 (2.22%) React
4 2 (2.22%) RESTful
4 2 (2.22%) SOAP
4 2 (2.22%) Web Services
4 2 (2.22%) WSE
5 1 (1.11%) boto
5 1 (1.11%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.44%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.67%) Data Structures
2 6 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.44%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.44%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (4.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.33%) CMDB
4 3 (3.33%) Derivative
4 3 (3.33%) PMI
5 2 (2.22%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.22%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.11%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.11%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.11%) Pricing Data
6 1 (1.11%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 4 (4.44%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (50.00%) Agile
2 27 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (24.44%) User Acceptance Testing
4 21 (23.33%) Scrum
5 19 (21.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (21.11%) Test Automation
5 19 (21.11%) Validation
6 17 (18.89%) CI/CD
7 16 (17.78%) Migration
7 16 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 14 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
8 14 (15.56%) DevOps
8 14 (15.56%) User Stories
9 13 (14.44%) Test Scripting
10 12 (13.33%) Project Delivery
10 12 (13.33%) Scenario Testing
10 12 (13.33%) Test Strategy
11 10 (11.11%) Test Management
12 9 (10.00%) Data Governance
12 9 (10.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (17.78%) SQL
2 11 (12.22%) Java
3 10 (11.11%) C#
4 7 (7.78%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.78%) Python
5 6 (6.67%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.33%) Go
6 3 (3.33%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.11%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.11%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (6.67%) Degree
1 6 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 6 (6.67%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.44%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.33%) CBAP
5 2 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.22%) PMP
6 1 (1.11%) APMG
6 1 (1.11%) CFA
6 1 (1.11%) IIBA
6 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.11%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.11%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.33%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.33%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.33%) PMO
1 3 (3.33%) PSD2
2 2 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.22%) GDPR
2 2 (2.22%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.11%) EMIR
3 1 (1.11%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS
3 1 (1.11%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.11%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.11%) MiFID
3 1 (1.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.11%) SEPA
3 1 (1.11%) SLA
3 1 (1.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.11%) Ansible
2 1 (1.11%) Grafana
2 1 (1.11%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.11%) Istio
2 1 (1.11%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.11%) Puppet
2 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.67%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.44%) SAP
3 4 (4.44%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.33%) Oracle
4 3 (3.33%) UiPath
5 2 (2.22%) Databricks
5 2 (2.22%) Google
5 2 (2.22%) Informatica
5 2 (2.22%) Pega
5 2 (2.22%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.22%) Talend
5 2 (2.22%) Workday
6 1 (1.11%) Adobe
6 1 (1.11%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.11%) HP
6 1 (1.11%) IBM
6 1 (1.11%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.11%) Murex