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

6 months to
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 60 40
Rank change year-on-year +16 -20 +47
Contract jobs citing QA 96 62 107
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.20% 3.55% 4.91%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.59% 21.02% 28.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 42 81
10th Percentile £363 £400 £363
25th Percentile £456 £466 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £722 £625
90th Percentile £808 £870 £690
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550

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 425 295 375
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.58% 16.90% 17.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 190 269
10th Percentile £343 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £554 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% +0.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £660 £703 £650
90th Percentile £766 £801 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £19.23 - £16.78
25th Percentile £22.24 - £17.96
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.61
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +6.77% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £22.65
90th Percentile £66.95 - £23.46
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.40
% change year-on-year +16.04% -3.85% -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 12 May 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 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Apache
2 1 (1.04%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (7.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (4.17%) Workday HCM
2 1 (1.04%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.04%) Magento
2 1 (1.04%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.04%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.04%) SAP HCM
2 1 (1.04%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.04%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 14 (14.58%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) Power Platform
3 8 (8.33%) GitHub
4 7 (7.29%) AWS
5 6 (6.25%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (4.17%) Dynamics 365
6 4 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (3.13%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (3.13%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (3.13%) GCP
7 3 (3.13%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
8 2 (2.08%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.08%) Serverless
9 1 (1.04%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (8.33%) WAN
1 8 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (7.29%) LAN
3 1 (1.04%) Firewall
3 1 (1.04%) MPLS
3 1 (1.04%) Multicast
3 1 (1.04%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (7.29%) Power BI
2 5 (5.21%) NoSQL
3 4 (4.17%) DynamoDB
3 4 (4.17%) SQL Server
4 3 (3.13%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.13%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.13%) Redis
4 3 (3.13%) Tableau
5 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (2.08%) Hazelcast
5 2 (2.08%) Metadata
5 2 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (1.04%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (1.04%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (1.04%) GIS
6 1 (1.04%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (1.04%) MySQL
6 1 (1.04%) Oracle Database
6 1 (1.04%) Power Query
6 1 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) JIRA
2 9 (9.38%) Git
3 8 (8.33%) Jenkins
3 8 (8.33%) Selenium
4 6 (6.25%) GitLab
5 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 4 (4.17%) Maven
6 3 (3.13%) Gatling
6 3 (3.13%) Gradle
6 3 (3.13%) REST Assured
7 2 (2.08%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.08%) JMeter
7 2 (2.08%) Postman
7 2 (2.08%) TeamCity
8 1 (1.04%) Artifactory
8 1 (1.04%) PHPUnit
8 1 (1.04%) Robot Framework
8 1 (1.04%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.04%) webpack
General
1 35 (36.46%) Finance
2 26 (27.08%) Social Skills
3 15 (15.63%) Banking
4 13 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.42%) Military
6 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.21%) Front Office
8 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
8 4 (4.17%) Publishing
9 3 (3.13%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.13%) Retail
10 2 (2.08%) Back Office
10 2 (2.08%) Law
10 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
11 1 (1.04%) Legal
11 1 (1.04%) Marketing
11 1 (1.04%) Police
11 1 (1.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (22.92%) Analyst
2 15 (15.63%) Developer
3 13 (13.54%) Senior
4 10 (10.42%) Lead
5 9 (9.38%) Architect
6 7 (7.29%) Business Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) Java Developer
6 7 (7.29%) Network Architect
7 5 (5.21%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Full-Stack Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Lead Developer
7 5 (5.21%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (4.17%) QA Engineer
8 4 (4.17%) Report Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Senior Java Developer
8 4 (4.17%) Tester
8 4 (4.17%) Workday Analyst
9 3 (3.13%) Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.29%) Playwright
2 6 (6.25%) Kafka
3 5 (5.21%) OpenTelemetry
3 5 (5.21%) REST
3 5 (5.21%) Spring
3 5 (5.21%) Spring Boot
4 4 (4.17%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.13%) CSS
5 3 (3.13%) HTML
5 3 (3.13%) JSON
5 3 (3.13%) Middleware
5 3 (3.13%) RESTful
6 2 (2.08%) Apache Avro
6 2 (2.08%) Django
6 2 (2.08%) Micronaut
6 2 (2.08%) Node.js
6 2 (2.08%) OAuth
6 2 (2.08%) OAuth2
6 2 (2.08%) OpenID
6 2 (2.08%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.25%) Cloud Native
1 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
1 6 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
2 4 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 4 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.13%) Distributed Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
3 3 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 2 (2.08%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.08%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.04%) Derivative
5 1 (1.04%) DTCC
5 1 (1.04%) Equities
5 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.04%) PMI
5 1 (1.04%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
2 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
2 21 (21.88%) Validation
3 18 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 16 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (14.58%) Migration
6 13 (13.54%) Agile
6 13 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (12.50%) DevOps
7 12 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.50%) Roadmaps
8 10 (10.42%) Analytics
8 10 (10.42%) Data Analysis
8 10 (10.42%) Scrum
8 10 (10.42%) User Experience
9 9 (9.38%) Containerisation
9 9 (9.38%) Project Management
9 9 (9.38%) Risk Management
10 8 (8.33%) Change Control
10 8 (8.33%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) SQL
2 12 (12.50%) Python
3 10 (10.42%) Java
4 6 (6.25%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.21%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.08%) C#
6 2 (2.08%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 2 (2.08%) Kotlin
6 2 (2.08%) Scala
7 1 (1.04%) Bash
7 1 (1.04%) Go
7 1 (1.04%) PHP
7 1 (1.04%) PL/SQL
7 1 (1.04%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.04%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.71%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.63%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.17%) Degree
4 3 (3.13%) PMP
5 2 (2.08%) APMP
5 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.04%) CBAP
6 1 (1.04%) CFA
6 1 (1.04%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.04%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.04%) RIBA
6 1 (1.04%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.54%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 20022
3 2 (2.08%) ISO 8583
3 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 2 (2.08%) PSD2
3 2 (2.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.08%) SEPA
3 2 (2.08%) WCAG
4 1 (1.04%) Basel III
4 1 (1.04%) EMIR
4 1 (1.04%) IFRS
4 1 (1.04%) IFRS 17
4 1 (1.04%) MiFID
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) Solvency II
System Software
1 8 (8.33%) Docker
2 2 (2.08%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.04%) GridGain
3 1 (1.04%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
2 6 (6.25%) Grafana
2 6 (6.25%) Prometheus
3 5 (5.21%) Terraform
4 3 (3.13%) Ansible
5 2 (2.08%) Argo
6 1 (1.04%) HP ALM
6 1 (1.04%) Puppet
6 1 (1.04%) Salt
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.33%) SAP
3 6 (6.25%) Oracle
3 6 (6.25%) Workday
4 3 (3.13%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Bloomberg
5 2 (2.08%) Confluent
5 2 (2.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.04%) Citrix
6 1 (1.04%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.04%) Google
6 1 (1.04%) HP
6 1 (1.04%) Informatica
6 1 (1.04%) ION Trading
6 1 (1.04%) Murex
6 1 (1.04%) Reuters
6 1 (1.04%) Sybase