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

6 months to
24 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 53 40
Rank change year-on-year +9 -13 +39
Contract jobs citing QA 98 71 98
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.03% 4.10% 4.57%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.11% 22.61% 27.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 49 79
10th Percentile £385 £400 £373
25th Percentile £475 £404 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £521 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -5.36% -7.95%
75th Percentile £668 £619 £625
90th Percentile £795 £842 £704
Central London median daily rate £550 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -7.56%

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 424 314 363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.45% 18.13% 16.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 217 259
10th Percentile £363 £364 £363
25th Percentile £450 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.33%
75th Percentile £668 £713 £650
90th Percentile £763 £800 £753
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £19.23 £28.43 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 £38.06 £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £54.75 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year -49.77% +165.71% -
75th Percentile £52.25 £72.06 £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 £82.08 £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £23.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +17.02% +0.43% -6.40%

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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 24 June 2026.

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 4 (4.08%) Confluence
2 1 (1.02%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.02%) Apache
2 1 (1.02%) CMS
2 1 (1.02%) IIS
2 1 (1.02%) nginx
2 1 (1.02%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.02%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (8.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.02%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.08%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.02%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.02%) Magento
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.02%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.02%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.02%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.37%) Azure
2 11 (11.22%) AWS
3 10 (10.20%) GitHub
4 8 (8.16%) Power Platform
5 6 (6.12%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 4 (4.08%) GitHub Copilot
7 4 (4.08%) Serverless
7 4 (4.08%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (3.06%) Amazon Kinesis
8 3 (3.06%) Amazon S3
8 3 (3.06%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.06%) GCP
9 2 (2.04%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.04%) Azure API Management
9 2 (2.04%) OpenShift
9 2 (2.04%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.10%) WAN
1 5 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (4.08%) LAN
3 2 (2.04%) Firewall
3 2 (2.04%) Internet
4 1 (1.02%) DHCP
4 1 (1.02%) DNS
4 1 (1.02%) Intranet
4 1 (1.02%) MPLS
4 1 (1.02%) Multicast
4 1 (1.02%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.02%) SD-WAN
4 1 (1.02%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.02%) VPN
4 1 (1.02%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.22%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.14%) NoSQL
3 6 (6.12%) Oracle Database
4 5 (5.10%) Power BI
5 4 (4.08%) DynamoDB
6 3 (3.06%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (3.06%) Metadata
6 3 (3.06%) MongoDB
6 3 (3.06%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (3.06%) Redis
7 2 (2.04%) Hazelcast
7 2 (2.04%) Relational Database
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
8 1 (1.02%) Big Data
8 1 (1.02%) Data Lake
8 1 (1.02%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (14.29%) JIRA
2 11 (11.22%) Git
3 10 (10.20%) Jenkins
4 8 (8.16%) GitLab
5 7 (7.14%) Selenium
6 4 (4.08%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.08%) Maven
6 4 (4.08%) REST Assured
7 3 (3.06%) Gatling
7 3 (3.06%) Gradle
7 3 (3.06%) TeamCity
8 2 (2.04%) Appium
8 2 (2.04%) Artifactory
8 2 (2.04%) Postman
8 2 (2.04%) webpack
8 2 (2.04%) Zephyr
9 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
9 1 (1.02%) MonkeyTalk
9 1 (1.02%) Robot Framework
9 1 (1.02%) XCUITest
General
1 30 (30.61%) Finance
2 29 (29.59%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.41%) Banking
4 13 (13.27%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
6 7 (7.14%) Military
7 6 (6.12%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.08%) Publishing
9 3 (3.06%) Front Office
9 3 (3.06%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.06%) Retail
10 2 (2.04%) Back Office
10 2 (2.04%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.04%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.04%) Law
10 2 (2.04%) Marketing
10 2 (2.04%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (2.04%) Retail Banking
11 1 (1.02%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (23.47%) Developer
2 20 (20.41%) Analyst
3 13 (13.27%) Senior
4 11 (11.22%) Lead
5 8 (8.16%) Java Developer
5 8 (8.16%) QA Engineer
6 6 (6.12%) Architect
6 6 (6.12%) C# Developer
6 6 (6.12%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Business Analyst
7 5 (5.10%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Developer
7 5 (5.10%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.08%) Report Analyst
8 4 (4.08%) Workday Analyst
9 3 (3.06%) Consultant
9 3 (3.06%) Test Manager
9 3 (3.06%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.18%) .NET
2 8 (8.16%) Kafka
3 7 (7.14%) Playwright
3 7 (7.14%) REST
4 6 (6.12%) .NET Framework
4 6 (6.12%) Spring
4 6 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 5 (5.10%) OpenTelemetry
6 4 (4.08%) RESTful
7 3 (3.06%) Gherkin
7 3 (3.06%) GraphQL
7 3 (3.06%) HTML
7 3 (3.06%) Middleware
7 3 (3.06%) Node.js
7 3 (3.06%) React
8 2 (2.04%) Apache Avro
8 2 (2.04%) ASP.NET Web Forms
8 2 (2.04%) OAuth2
8 2 (2.04%) OpenID
8 2 (2.04%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.12%) Cloud Native
3 4 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.06%) AI Agents
4 3 (3.06%) Data Structures
4 3 (3.06%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.04%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.04%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (2.04%) Life Science
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.04%) Replication
6 1 (1.02%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.02%) PKI
6 1 (1.02%) PMI
6 1 (1.02%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.12%) Windows
1 6 (6.12%) Windows Server
2 5 (5.10%) Linux
3 4 (4.08%) Unix
4 1 (1.02%) Android
4 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.45%) Test Automation
1 22 (22.45%) Validation
2 21 (21.43%) CI/CD
3 20 (20.41%) Agile
4 19 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
5 17 (17.35%) DevOps
6 15 (15.31%) AI
7 13 (13.27%) Roadmaps
8 11 (11.22%) Analytics
8 11 (11.22%) Containerisation
8 11 (11.22%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (11.22%) Data Analysis
8 11 (11.22%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (9.18%) Data Modelling
9 9 (9.18%) Decision-Making
9 9 (9.18%) Performance Tuning
9 9 (9.18%) Scrum
10 8 (8.16%) Migration
10 8 (8.16%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (25.51%) SQL
2 16 (16.33%) Python
3 12 (12.24%) Java
4 10 (10.20%) C#
5 7 (7.14%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.14%) PL/SQL
6 5 (5.10%) T-SQL
7 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.04%) Bash
8 2 (2.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 2 (2.04%) Korn
8 2 (2.04%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.04%) Scala
9 1 (1.02%) C
9 1 (1.02%) PHP
9 1 (1.02%) ProC
9 1 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.02%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 18 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 14 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.12%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) CSPO
4 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) APMP
5 1 (1.02%) CBAP
5 1 (1.02%) CCIE
5 1 (1.02%) CCNP
5 1 (1.02%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.02%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.02%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.02%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.02%) PMP
5 1 (1.02%) RIBA
5 1 (1.02%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.24%) Data Quality
2 6 (6.12%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.04%) 21 CFR Part 11
3 2 (2.04%) GDPR
3 2 (2.04%) GxP
3 2 (2.04%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.04%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.04%) PSD2
3 2 (2.04%) SEPA
3 2 (2.04%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.02%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.02%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.02%) PERC
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
4 1 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.02%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.02%) Solvency II
System Software
1 12 (12.24%) Docker
2 3 (3.06%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.02%) GridGain
3 1 (1.02%) Varnish
3 1 (1.02%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 11 (11.22%) Kubernetes
2 7 (7.14%) Grafana
2 7 (7.14%) Prometheus
2 7 (7.14%) Terraform
3 4 (4.08%) Ansible
4 2 (2.04%) Argo
5 1 (1.02%) Puppet
5 1 (1.02%) Salt
Vendors
1 12 (12.24%) Oracle
2 11 (11.22%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.10%) Citrix
3 5 (5.10%) Databricks
3 5 (5.10%) SAP
3 5 (5.10%) Workday
4 3 (3.06%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.04%) Adobe
5 2 (2.04%) Cisco
5 2 (2.04%) Confluent
5 2 (2.04%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.04%) Google
5 2 (2.04%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.02%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.02%) Denodo
6 1 (1.02%) Informatica
6 1 (1.02%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.02%) Reuters
6 1 (1.02%) Sybase