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 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 62 37
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 +41
Contract jobs citing QA 99 58 104
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.60% 3.33% 4.51%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.60% 21.09% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 38 84
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £431 £481 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £561 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +2.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £712 £625
90th Percentile £825 £823 £689
Central London median daily rate £575 £557 £550
% change year-on-year +3.23% +1.27% -

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 438 275 376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.37% 15.80% 16.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 177 276
10th Percentile £363 £375 £366
25th Percentile £443 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £681 £675
90th Percentile £800 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £25.05
25th Percentile £24.18 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.75 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.76%
75th Percentile £41.31 - £60.64
90th Percentile £62.58 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £20.35 £34.53
% change year-on-year +28.34% -41.08% +38.12%

QA
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

QA
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

QA
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 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the City of London

QA
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

QA
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 4 (4.04%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (4.04%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.04%) Workday HCM
2 2 (2.02%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (2.02%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (1.01%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.01%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.01%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.14%) Azure
2 11 (11.11%) Power Platform
3 9 (9.09%) AWS
4 7 (7.07%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (5.05%) GitHub
5 5 (5.05%) Snowflake
6 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.04%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (3.03%) GCP
7 3 (3.03%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.02%) OpenShift
9 1 (1.01%) Amazon Kinesis
9 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (1.01%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.01%) Boomi
9 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (1.01%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.08%) WAN
1 8 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.07%) LAN
3 1 (1.01%) MPLS
3 1 (1.01%) Multicast
3 1 (1.01%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) Power BI
2 5 (5.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.05%) Tableau
3 3 (3.03%) NoSQL
3 3 (3.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.02%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.02%) DynamoDB
4 2 (2.02%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.02%) MySQL
4 2 (2.02%) Redis
5 1 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
5 1 (1.01%) Big Data
5 1 (1.01%) Informix
5 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.01%) Oracle Database
5 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.01%) Power Query
5 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.01%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.16%) JIRA
2 9 (9.09%) Selenium
3 7 (7.07%) Jenkins
4 6 (6.06%) Cucumber
5 5 (5.05%) Git
6 4 (4.04%) GitLab
6 4 (4.04%) Postman
6 4 (4.04%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.03%) Cypress.io
8 2 (2.02%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.02%) Gatling
8 2 (2.02%) JMeter
8 2 (2.02%) Maven
8 2 (2.02%) SoapUI
8 2 (2.02%) SpecFlow
9 1 (1.01%) Gradle
9 1 (1.01%) LoadRunner
9 1 (1.01%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.01%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (1.01%) WinAutomation
General
1 44 (44.44%) Finance
2 29 (29.29%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.17%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (17.17%) Banking
4 10 (10.10%) Front Office
5 8 (8.08%) Military
6 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.04%) Investment Banking
7 4 (4.04%) Publishing
8 3 (3.03%) Back Office
8 3 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.03%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.02%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Retail
10 1 (1.01%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.01%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.01%) Law
10 1 (1.01%) Legal
10 1 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (27.27%) Analyst
2 12 (12.12%) Developer
3 11 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 10 (10.10%) Senior
5 9 (9.09%) Architect
6 8 (8.08%) Java Developer
7 7 (7.07%) Network Architect
8 5 (5.05%) Test Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Consultant
9 4 (4.04%) Data Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Lead
9 4 (4.04%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.04%) QA Engineer
9 4 (4.04%) Report Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Test Analyst
9 4 (4.04%) Test Manager
9 4 (4.04%) Workday Analyst
10 3 (3.03%) Low Latency Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) Playwright
2 4 (4.04%) REST
3 3 (3.03%) .NET
3 3 (3.03%) JSON
3 3 (3.03%) Kafka
3 3 (3.03%) OpenTelemetry
3 3 (3.03%) Spring
3 3 (3.03%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.02%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.02%) CSS
4 2 (2.02%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.02%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.02%) HTML
4 2 (2.02%) Micronaut
4 2 (2.02%) OAuth
4 2 (2.02%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.02%) pytest
4 2 (2.02%) Quarkus
4 2 (2.02%) SOAP
4 2 (2.02%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 7 (7.07%) Onboarding
1 7 (7.07%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.04%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.04%) Data Structures
3 4 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (3.03%) Derivative
4 3 (3.03%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.03%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.02%) Algorithms
5 2 (2.02%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.02%) PMI
5 2 (2.02%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.01%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.01%) Equities
6 1 (1.01%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.01%) IoT
6 1 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Windows
2 5 (5.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.03%) Unix
4 1 (1.01%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (27.27%) Agile
2 25 (25.25%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (24.24%) Validation
4 22 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 21 (21.21%) Test Automation
6 19 (19.19%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (19.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 17 (17.17%) Migration
8 16 (16.16%) Scrum
9 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.13%) Project Delivery
10 13 (13.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (11.11%) Analytics
11 11 (11.11%) DevOps
11 11 (11.11%) Roadmaps
11 11 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
12 10 (10.10%) Business Analysis
12 10 (10.10%) Project Management
12 10 (10.10%) Test Scripting
12 10 (10.10%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (21.21%) SQL
2 15 (15.15%) Java
3 9 (9.09%) Python
4 8 (8.08%) C#
5 6 (6.06%) TypeScript
6 5 (5.05%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.02%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (2.02%) Go
7 2 (2.02%) Scala
7 2 (2.02%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.01%) Kotlin
8 1 (1.01%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.01%) R
8 1 (1.01%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (14.14%) SC Cleared
1 14 (14.14%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.05%) Degree
3 4 (4.04%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.03%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.03%) PMP
5 2 (2.02%) APMP
5 2 (2.02%) CBAP
5 2 (2.02%) CFA
5 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.01%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.01%) RIBA
6 1 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.12%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.04%) ISO 8583
2 4 (4.04%) PCI DSS
2 4 (4.04%) PSD2
3 3 (3.03%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.02%) GDPR
4 2 (2.02%) ISO 20022
4 2 (2.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.02%) SEPA
5 1 (1.01%) Basel III
5 1 (1.01%) EMIR
5 1 (1.01%) IFRS
5 1 (1.01%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.01%) MiFID
5 1 (1.01%) PMO
5 1 (1.01%) Solvency II
5 1 (1.01%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.06%) Docker
2 1 (1.01%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.01%) GridGain
Systems Management
1 6 (6.06%) Kubernetes
2 4 (4.04%) Terraform
3 3 (3.03%) Grafana
3 3 (3.03%) Prometheus
4 2 (2.02%) Ansible
4 2 (2.02%) Argo
5 1 (1.01%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.07%) Oracle
3 6 (6.06%) SAP
3 6 (6.06%) Workday
4 3 (3.03%) Databricks
4 3 (3.03%) Informatica
4 3 (3.03%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.03%) Talend
5 2 (2.02%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.02%) Confluent
5 2 (2.02%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.02%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.02%) UiPath
6 1 (1.01%) Alteryx
6 1 (1.01%) Denodo
6 1 (1.01%) HP
6 1 (1.01%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.01%) Qualtrics
6 1 (1.01%) Solace