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

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 42 40
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +32
Contract jobs citing QA 97 91 113
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.29% 4.49% 4.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.53% 29.26% 27.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 53 92
10th Percentile £363 £348 £363
25th Percentile £405 £413 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% +4.55% -5.17%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £675
90th Percentile £807 £795 £712
Central London median daily rate £591 £571 £550
% change year-on-year +3.50% +3.86% -
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 380 311 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.72% 15.34% 16.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 169 292
10th Percentile £325 £323 £400
25th Percentile £413 £450 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £685
90th Percentile £825 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £561 £575
% change year-on-year -6.46% -2.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £26.51 - -
25th Percentile £26.54 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £28.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £32.50 - £73.75
90th Percentile £34.30 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £28.75 £72.50
% change year-on-year -8.38% -60.34% +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 29 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 7 (7.22%) Confluence
2 3 (3.09%) CMS
3 2 (2.06%) Drupal
3 2 (2.06%) WordPress
4 1 (1.03%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.03%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.03%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.09%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.06%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (2.06%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.06%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.03%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.03%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.03%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 10 (10.31%) Azure
2 9 (9.28%) AWS
3 7 (7.22%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.19%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.09%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.09%) GitHub
5 3 (3.09%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.09%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.06%) Figma
6 2 (2.06%) GCP
6 2 (2.06%) Miro
6 2 (2.06%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.06%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.03%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.03%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.03%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.03%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.03%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.03%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.15%) LAN
1 5 (5.15%) WAN
1 5 (5.15%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.03%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.22%) Power BI
2 4 (4.12%) Tableau
3 3 (3.09%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.06%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.06%) MySQL
4 2 (2.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.03%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.03%) Hazelcast
5 1 (1.03%) Informix
5 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.03%) Power Query
5 1 (1.03%) Redis
5 1 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.03%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (18.56%) JIRA
2 7 (7.22%) Selenium
3 6 (6.19%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.15%) Cypress.io
5 3 (3.09%) Git
5 3 (3.09%) GitLab
5 3 (3.09%) Jenkins
5 3 (3.09%) JMeter
5 3 (3.09%) Postman
6 2 (2.06%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.06%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.06%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.06%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.06%) Storybook
6 2 (2.06%) WebDriver
7 1 (1.03%) Gatling
7 1 (1.03%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.03%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.03%) TestNG
General
1 53 (54.64%) Finance
2 33 (34.02%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.62%) Banking
4 17 (17.53%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.34%) Front Office
6 7 (7.22%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.15%) Military
7 5 (5.15%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.12%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.09%) Back Office
9 3 (3.09%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.09%) Legal
9 3 (3.09%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.06%) Law
10 2 (2.06%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.03%) Marketing
11 1 (1.03%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (23.71%) Analyst
2 16 (16.49%) Business Analyst
3 8 (8.25%) Architect
3 8 (8.25%) Developer
3 8 (8.25%) Lead
3 8 (8.25%) Senior
4 6 (6.19%) Consultant
4 6 (6.19%) Java Developer
5 5 (5.15%) Low Latency Java Developer
5 5 (5.15%) Network Architect
5 5 (5.15%) Programme Manager
6 4 (4.12%) Project Manager
6 4 (4.12%) Senior Manager
6 4 (4.12%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.12%) Test Engineer
6 4 (4.12%) Tester
7 3 (3.09%) Business Systems Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.09%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (3.09%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) Playwright
2 4 (4.12%) CSS
2 4 (4.12%) HTML
3 3 (3.09%) JSON
3 3 (3.09%) REST
4 2 (2.06%) .NET
4 2 (2.06%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.06%) CSS3
4 2 (2.06%) Express.js
4 2 (2.06%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.06%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.06%) HTML5
4 2 (2.06%) Jest
4 2 (2.06%) React
4 2 (2.06%) RESTful
4 2 (2.06%) SOAP
4 2 (2.06%) Web Services
4 2 (2.06%) WSE
5 1 (1.03%) LDAP
5 1 (1.03%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (11.34%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (6.19%) Data Structures
4 5 (5.15%) Onboarding
5 4 (4.12%) Data Centre
5 4 (4.12%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.09%) CMDB
6 3 (3.09%) Derivative
6 3 (3.09%) PMI
7 2 (2.06%) Algorithms
7 2 (2.06%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (2.06%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.03%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
8 1 (1.03%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.03%) Pricing Data
8 1 (1.03%) Reinsurance
8 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.15%) Windows
2 4 (4.12%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.06%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (44.33%) Agile
2 27 (27.84%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (21.65%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (20.62%) Scrum
4 20 (20.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (18.56%) Validation
6 17 (17.53%) CI/CD
6 17 (17.53%) Migration
6 17 (17.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (17.53%) Test Automation
7 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (15.46%) User Stories
8 13 (13.40%) DevOps
9 12 (12.37%) Project Delivery
9 12 (12.37%) Test Scripting
10 11 (11.34%) Scenario Testing
10 11 (11.34%) Test Strategy
11 10 (10.31%) Test Management
12 9 (9.28%) Data Governance
12 9 (9.28%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 17 (17.53%) SQL
2 11 (11.34%) Java
3 9 (9.28%) C#
4 7 (7.22%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.22%) Python
5 6 (6.19%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.09%) Go
7 2 (2.06%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.03%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.03%) R
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) SC Cleared
1 9 (9.28%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.22%) Degree
3 6 (6.19%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.12%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.12%) PMP
5 3 (3.09%) CBAP
6 2 (2.06%) CFA
6 2 (2.06%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.03%) APMG
7 1 (1.03%) APMP
7 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) IIBA
7 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.03%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.12%) Data Quality
1 4 (4.12%) PSD2
2 3 (3.09%) ISO 8583
2 3 (3.09%) PCI DSS
2 3 (3.09%) PMO
3 2 (2.06%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.06%) GDPR
3 2 (2.06%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.06%) SEPA
4 1 (1.03%) Basel III
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.03%) EMIR
4 1 (1.03%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS
4 1 (1.03%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.03%) MiFID
4 1 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.03%) SLA
4 1 (1.03%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.15%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Ansible
2 2 (2.06%) Grafana
2 2 (2.06%) Prometheus
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
3 1 (1.03%) Argo
3 1 (1.03%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.03%) Istio
3 1 (1.03%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.19%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.12%) SAP
3 4 (4.12%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.09%) Oracle
5 2 (2.06%) Databricks
5 2 (2.06%) Google
5 2 (2.06%) Informatica
5 2 (2.06%) Pega
5 2 (2.06%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.06%) Talend
5 2 (2.06%) UiPath
5 2 (2.06%) Workday
6 1 (1.03%) Adobe
6 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.03%) Confluent
6 1 (1.03%) HP
6 1 (1.03%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.03%) Murex
6 1 (1.03%) Tenable