QA Contracts in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 4 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 44 71
Rank change year-on-year -10 +27 -2
Contract jobs citing QA 73 94 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.03% 4.40% 3.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 21.79% 25.82% 22.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 73 88
10th Percentile £400 £365 £375
25th Percentile £404 £475 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £700
90th Percentile £823 £715 £750
Central London median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +11.11%

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 335 364 487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.49% 17.04% 13.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 255 360
10th Percentile £366 £363 £398
25th Percentile £436 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £702 £650 £713
90th Percentile £800 £771 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £28.05 £16.78 -
25th Percentile £37.13 £17.96 -
Median hourly rate £54.50 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +164.50% - -
75th Percentile £72.75 £22.65 -
90th Percentile £82.35 £23.46 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year +47.35% -6.40% -39.76%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for QA in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for QA in the City of London

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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 4 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the City of London

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Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 4 July 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
Moorgate - 1 £300 -
QA
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 5 (6.85%) Confluence
2 3 (4.11%) CMS
2 3 (4.11%) Drupal
3 2 (2.74%) WordPress
4 1 (1.37%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.37%) Umbraco
Applications
1 5 (6.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Chatbot
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.37%) EViews
3 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (5.48%) ION Anvil
2 3 (4.11%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (4.11%) Oracle BPM
3 1 (1.37%) Bloomberg AIM
3 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.37%) SAP CRM
3 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.55%) Azure
2 11 (15.07%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (12.33%) AWS
4 5 (6.85%) GitHub
4 5 (6.85%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.48%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (5.48%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.74%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.74%) Figma
6 2 (2.74%) Miro
6 2 (2.74%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.37%) Azure AI
7 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.37%) Kong
7 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) LAN
2 1 (1.37%) Firewall
2 1 (1.37%) HTTP
2 1 (1.37%) SSL
2 1 (1.37%) VPN
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
2 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (16.44%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.85%) Power BI
3 2 (2.74%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.74%) Data Hub
3 2 (2.74%) MySQL
3 2 (2.74%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (1.37%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.37%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.37%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.37%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.37%) Power Query
4 1 (1.37%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (13.70%) JIRA
2 8 (10.96%) Selenium
3 6 (8.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (6.85%) GitLab
4 5 (6.85%) Postman
5 3 (4.11%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.11%) Git
5 3 (4.11%) JMeter
6 2 (2.74%) Bitbucket
6 2 (2.74%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.74%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.74%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.37%) eggPlant
7 1 (1.37%) Gatling
7 1 (1.37%) git-flow
7 1 (1.37%) Hamcrest
7 1 (1.37%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (1.37%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (41.10%) Finance
2 22 (30.14%) Social Skills
3 12 (16.44%) Banking
4 8 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.96%) Investment Banking
5 7 (9.59%) Front Office
6 6 (8.22%) Financial Institution
7 5 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
8 3 (4.11%) Legal
9 2 (2.74%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.74%) Law
9 2 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.37%) Back Office
10 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.37%) International Banking
10 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.37%) Marketing
10 1 (1.37%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (19.18%) Analyst
1 14 (19.18%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) Senior
3 9 (12.33%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) QA Engineer
4 6 (8.22%) C# Developer
4 6 (8.22%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (5.48%) .NET Developer
5 4 (5.48%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (5.48%) Product Analyst
5 4 (5.48%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (5.48%) Test Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Lead
6 3 (4.11%) Product Business Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Product Owner
6 3 (4.11%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.11%) QA Leader
6 3 (4.11%) Senior Business Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) .NET
2 7 (9.59%) REST
3 5 (6.85%) CSS
3 5 (6.85%) HTML
3 5 (6.85%) WPF
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 4 (5.48%) React
5 3 (4.11%) jQuery
6 2 (2.74%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.74%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.74%) JSON
6 2 (2.74%) Middleware
6 2 (2.74%) Spring
6 2 (2.74%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.74%) Vue
7 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
7 1 (1.37%) MUnit
7 1 (1.37%) PySpark
7 1 (1.37%) Twig
7 1 (1.37%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.85%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.11%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.11%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.11%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.74%) Digital Media
4 2 (2.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.74%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.37%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.37%) Derivative
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.37%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.37%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Windows
2 4 (5.48%) Linux
3 2 (2.74%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.37%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.10%) Agile
2 22 (30.14%) Test Automation
3 21 (28.77%) CI/CD
4 19 (26.03%) DevOps
5 14 (19.18%) Scrum
5 14 (19.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 12 (16.44%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (15.07%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (15.07%) Data Analysis
7 11 (15.07%) Test Strategy
8 10 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 10 (13.70%) Unit Testing
9 9 (12.33%) SDLC
9 9 (12.33%) Test Scripting
10 8 (10.96%) Code Quality
10 8 (10.96%) Disaster Recovery
10 8 (10.96%) Software Testing
10 8 (10.96%) User Stories
10 8 (10.96%) Validation
11 7 (9.59%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (24.66%) C#
2 15 (20.55%) SQL
3 10 (13.70%) JavaScript
4 9 (12.33%) Python
5 7 (9.59%) Java
6 3 (4.11%) Bash
7 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.37%) ABAP
8 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
8 1 (1.37%) Objective-C
8 1 (1.37%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.37%) R
8 1 (1.37%) Swift
8 1 (1.37%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (13.70%) Degree
2 4 (5.48%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.11%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (4.11%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.74%) GIAC
4 2 (2.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CEH
5 1 (1.37%) CFA
5 1 (1.37%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.37%) EnCE
5 1 (1.37%) GPEN
5 1 (1.37%) GXPN
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) OSCP
5 1 (1.37%) SANS
5 1 (1.37%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
1 2 (2.74%) Data Quality
1 2 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 2 (2.74%) SLA
2 1 (1.37%) GAAP
2 1 (1.37%) GxP
2 1 (1.37%) IFRS
2 1 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.37%) MiFID
2 1 (1.37%) SOC 2
2 1 (1.37%) UCITS
2 1 (1.37%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.22%) Terraform
2 4 (5.48%) Ansible
2 4 (5.48%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) Argo
3 1 (1.37%) CloudHub
3 1 (1.37%) EnCase
3 1 (1.37%) FTK
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) Istio
3 1 (1.37%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 10 (13.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.96%) Oracle
3 4 (5.48%) ION Trading
4 3 (4.11%) OpenText
4 3 (4.11%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) Databricks
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Workday
6 1 (1.37%) Advent
6 1 (1.37%) Cellebrite
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.37%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.37%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.37%) Nuix
6 1 (1.37%) OpenAI
6 1 (1.37%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.37%) Splunk
6 1 (1.37%) Talend
6 1 (1.37%) UiPath