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

6 months to
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 58 35
Rank change year-on-year +18 -23 +50
Contract jobs citing QA 105 60 108
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.59% 3.39% 4.90%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.36% 20.98% 28.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 40 84
10th Percentile £363 £400 £386
25th Percentile £478 £472 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £668 £734 £625
90th Percentile £813 £864 £697
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +0.36%

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 431 286 384
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 18.85% 16.17% 17.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 300 185 277
10th Percentile £348 £375 £363
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +3.64% -8.33%
75th Percentile £670 £700 £663
90th Percentile £775 £800 £760
Central London median daily rate £528 £557 £550
% change year-on-year -5.30% +1.27% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £19.23 - £17.18
25th Percentile £22.24 - £18.94
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £21.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +0.91% -
75th Percentile £52.25 - £36.44
90th Percentile £66.95 - £58.83
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £22.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +16.04% -5.46% +1.28%

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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 28 April 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 (3.81%) Confluence
2 1 (0.95%) Apache
2 1 (0.95%) nginx
Applications
1 7 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.95%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.95%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.81%) Workday HCM
2 3 (2.86%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.90%) Algo Collateral
4 1 (0.95%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.95%) Magento
4 1 (0.95%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.95%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.95%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.95%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 14 (13.33%) Azure
2 11 (10.48%) Power Platform
3 8 (7.62%) AWS
4 7 (6.67%) GitHub
5 5 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
6 4 (3.81%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (3.81%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.86%) Amazon Kinesis
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.86%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.86%) GCP
7 3 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (2.86%) GitHub Copilot
7 3 (2.86%) Snowflake
8 2 (1.90%) Amazon S3
8 2 (1.90%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (1.90%) OpenShift
8 2 (1.90%) Serverless
9 1 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.62%) WAN
1 8 (7.62%) Wi-Fi
2 7 (6.67%) LAN
3 1 (0.95%) Firewall
3 1 (0.95%) MPLS
3 1 (0.95%) Multicast
3 1 (0.95%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (0.95%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.57%) Power BI
2 5 (4.76%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.81%) DynamoDB
3 4 (3.81%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.81%) Tableau
4 3 (2.86%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.86%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.86%) Redis
5 2 (1.90%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.90%) Hazelcast
5 2 (1.90%) Metadata
5 2 (1.90%) Power Query
6 1 (0.95%) Amazon RDS
6 1 (0.95%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.95%) GIS
6 1 (0.95%) Metadata Repository
6 1 (0.95%) MySQL
6 1 (0.95%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.95%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 18 (17.14%) JIRA
2 9 (8.57%) Selenium
3 8 (7.62%) Git
4 7 (6.67%) Jenkins
5 6 (5.71%) GitLab
6 4 (3.81%) Cucumber
6 4 (3.81%) Maven
7 3 (2.86%) Cypress.io
7 3 (2.86%) Gradle
7 3 (2.86%) Postman
7 3 (2.86%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.90%) Gatling
8 2 (1.90%) TeamCity
9 1 (0.95%) Artifactory
9 1 (0.95%) Bitbucket
9 1 (0.95%) JMeter
9 1 (0.95%) PHPUnit
9 1 (0.95%) Sonatype Nexus
9 1 (0.95%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.95%) WinAutomation
General
1 42 (40.00%) Finance
2 29 (27.62%) Social Skills
3 17 (16.19%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (14.29%) Banking
5 10 (9.52%) Front Office
5 10 (9.52%) Military
5 10 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.81%) Publishing
7 3 (2.86%) Back Office
7 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.86%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.86%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.90%) Law
8 2 (1.90%) Legal
8 2 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.90%) Retail
9 1 (0.95%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.95%) Marketing
9 1 (0.95%) Police
9 1 (0.95%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 26 (24.76%) Analyst
2 19 (18.10%) Developer
3 13 (12.38%) Senior
4 10 (9.52%) Java Developer
5 9 (8.57%) Architect
5 9 (8.57%) Business Analyst
5 9 (8.57%) Lead
6 7 (6.67%) Network Architect
7 6 (5.71%) Data Analyst
8 5 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Lead Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Lead Full-Stack Developer
8 5 (4.76%) Tester
9 4 (3.81%) Consultant
9 4 (3.81%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Report Analyst
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Senior Java Developer
9 4 (3.81%) Test Manager
9 4 (3.81%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.71%) Playwright
2 5 (4.76%) Kafka
2 5 (4.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 5 (4.76%) Spring
2 5 (4.76%) Spring Boot
3 4 (3.81%) REST
4 3 (2.86%) CSS
4 3 (2.86%) Gherkin
4 3 (2.86%) HTML
4 3 (2.86%) JSON
4 3 (2.86%) RESTful
5 2 (1.90%) .NET
5 2 (1.90%) Apache Avro
5 2 (1.90%) Django
5 2 (1.90%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (1.90%) Middleware
5 2 (1.90%) OAuth
5 2 (1.90%) OpenID
5 2 (1.90%) SOAP
5 2 (1.90%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.62%) Onboarding
2 7 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 6 (5.71%) Cloud Native
4 4 (3.81%) Data Centre
4 4 (3.81%) Data Structures
4 4 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (3.81%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.86%) Derivative
5 3 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.86%) PMI
5 3 (2.86%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.90%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.90%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.90%) Freedom of Information
6 2 (1.90%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.90%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.95%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.95%) IoT
7 1 (0.95%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.71%) Windows
2 5 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.86%) Unix
4 1 (0.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
2 23 (21.90%) Validation
3 21 (20.00%) Agile
4 20 (19.05%) Test Automation
5 19 (18.10%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (16.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 16 (15.24%) CI/CD
7 16 (15.24%) Scrum
8 15 (14.29%) Migration
8 15 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 13 (12.38%) DevOps
10 12 (11.43%) Project Delivery
11 11 (10.48%) Analytics
11 11 (10.48%) Roadmaps
11 11 (10.48%) User Acceptance Testing
11 11 (10.48%) User Experience
12 10 (9.52%) Data Analysis
13 9 (8.57%) Business Intelligence
13 9 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
13 9 (8.57%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (19.05%) SQL
2 15 (14.29%) Java
3 11 (10.48%) Python
4 6 (5.71%) C#
5 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.76%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.86%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.90%) Go
7 2 (1.90%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.90%) Scala
8 1 (0.95%) Bash
8 1 (0.95%) PHP
8 1 (0.95%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.95%) R
8 1 (0.95%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.95%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.95%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 18 (17.14%) Security Cleared
2 16 (15.24%) SC Cleared
3 4 (3.81%) Degree
3 4 (3.81%) PMI Certification
4 3 (2.86%) CBAP
4 3 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.86%) PMP
5 2 (1.90%) APMP
6 1 (0.95%) CFA
6 1 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.95%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.95%) RIBA
6 1 (0.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (11.43%) Data Quality
2 4 (3.81%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.81%) ISO 8583
2 4 (3.81%) PCI DSS
2 4 (3.81%) PSD2
3 2 (1.90%) GDPR
3 2 (1.90%) ISO 20022
3 2 (1.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (1.90%) SEPA
4 1 (0.95%) Basel III
4 1 (0.95%) EMIR
4 1 (0.95%) IFRS
4 1 (0.95%) IFRS 17
4 1 (0.95%) MiFID
4 1 (0.95%) PMO
4 1 (0.95%) Solvency II
4 1 (0.95%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (8.57%) Docker
2 2 (1.90%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.95%) GridGain
3 1 (0.95%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 8 (7.62%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.71%) Grafana
2 6 (5.71%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.76%) Terraform
4 3 (2.86%) Ansible
5 2 (1.90%) Argo
6 1 (0.95%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.95%) Puppet
6 1 (0.95%) Salt
Vendors
1 13 (12.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.67%) SAP
3 6 (5.71%) Oracle
3 6 (5.71%) Workday
4 2 (1.90%) Bloomberg
4 2 (1.90%) Confluent
4 2 (1.90%) Databricks
4 2 (1.90%) Google
4 2 (1.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.90%) SmartStream
5 1 (0.95%) Adobe
5 1 (0.95%) Citrix
5 1 (0.95%) Fortinet
5 1 (0.95%) HP
5 1 (0.95%) IBM
5 1 (0.95%) Informatica
5 1 (0.95%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.95%) Murex
5 1 (0.95%) Reuters
5 1 (0.95%) Salesforce