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 7 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 40 38
Rank change year-on-year -6 -2 +33
Contract jobs citing QA 86 99 123
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 4.79% 4.63% 4.66%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 23.50% 30.09% 28.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 58 104
10th Percentile £359 £349 £368
25th Percentile £405 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £591 £566 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.42% +2.95% -6.38%
75th Percentile £688 £684 £694
90th Percentile £825 £768 £746
Central London median daily rate £591 £563 £550
% change year-on-year +5.11% +2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £32.50 - -
Median hourly rate £34.00 - -
75th Percentile £35.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 - -

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 366 329 425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.37% 15.40% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 262 178 314
10th Percentile £315 £348 £400
25th Percentile £413 £457 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £566 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.08% -1.52% -0.86%
75th Percentile £685 £675 £692
90th Percentile £825 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £580
% change year-on-year -2.27% -5.17% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £26.53 - -
25th Percentile £26.57 - £71.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 - £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - - +271.79%
75th Percentile £56.75 - £73.75
90th Percentile £75.95 - -
Central London median hourly rate £34.24 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -2.17% -51.72% +249.40%

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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 7 December 2025.

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 7 (8.14%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) CMS
3 2 (2.33%) Drupal
3 2 (2.33%) WordPress
4 1 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.16%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.65%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.33%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.33%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.33%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.16%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.16%) NetSuite
2 1 (1.16%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.16%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (11.63%) Azure
2 8 (9.30%) AWS
3 7 (8.14%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.81%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.33%) Figma
5 2 (2.33%) GitHub
5 2 (2.33%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.33%) Miro
5 2 (2.33%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
5 2 (2.33%) WhatsApp
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.16%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.16%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.16%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.16%) GCP
6 1 (1.16%) SaaS
6 1 (1.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) OpenLDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Power BI
2 4 (4.65%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.33%) MySQL
3 2 (2.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.33%) Tableau
4 1 (1.16%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.16%) Informix
4 1 (1.16%) Power Query
4 1 (1.16%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.16%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (18.60%) JIRA
2 7 (8.14%) Cucumber
2 7 (8.14%) Selenium
3 4 (4.65%) Cypress.io
3 4 (4.65%) Git
3 4 (4.65%) Postman
4 3 (3.49%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.49%) GitLab
4 3 (3.49%) JMeter
5 2 (2.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.33%) SoapUI
5 2 (2.33%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.33%) Storybook
5 2 (2.33%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.16%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.16%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.16%) TestNG
General
1 49 (56.98%) Finance
2 30 (34.88%) Social Skills
3 18 (20.93%) Banking
4 15 (17.44%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.63%) Front Office
6 6 (6.98%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.81%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.65%) Back Office
8 4 (4.65%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.65%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.49%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.49%) Legal
10 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.16%) Law
11 1 (1.16%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.16%) Marketing
11 1 (1.16%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.16%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Analyst
2 16 (18.60%) Business Analyst
3 8 (9.30%) Developer
4 7 (8.14%) Lead
4 7 (8.14%) Senior
5 6 (6.98%) Consultant
6 5 (5.81%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (5.81%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.81%) Test Analyst
6 5 (5.81%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Test Automation Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Tester
8 3 (3.49%) Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Payments Business Analyst
8 3 (3.49%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.49%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Senior Manager
8 3 (3.49%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.65%) .NET
1 4 (4.65%) CSS
1 4 (4.65%) HTML
1 4 (4.65%) Playwright
2 3 (3.49%) REST
3 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (2.33%) CSS3
3 2 (2.33%) Express.js
3 2 (2.33%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (2.33%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.33%) HTML5
3 2 (2.33%) Jest
3 2 (2.33%) JSON
3 2 (2.33%) React
3 2 (2.33%) RESTful
3 2 (2.33%) SOAP
3 2 (2.33%) Web Services
3 2 (2.33%) WSE
4 1 (1.16%) boto
4 1 (1.16%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 13 (15.12%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.98%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.65%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.49%) CMDB
5 3 (3.49%) PMI
6 2 (2.33%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.33%) Derivative
6 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.16%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.16%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.16%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.16%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.16%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Windows
2 4 (4.65%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (51.16%) Agile
2 26 (30.23%) Problem-Solving
3 22 (25.58%) User Acceptance Testing
4 21 (24.42%) Scrum
5 18 (20.93%) Stakeholder Management
5 18 (20.93%) Validation
6 17 (19.77%) CI/CD
6 17 (19.77%) Test Automation
7 16 (18.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 15 (17.44%) Migration
9 14 (16.28%) DevOps
9 14 (16.28%) User Stories
10 13 (15.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (13.95%) Project Delivery
11 12 (13.95%) Test Scripting
11 12 (13.95%) Test Strategy
12 11 (12.79%) Scenario Testing
13 10 (11.63%) Test Management
14 9 (10.47%) Data Governance
14 9 (10.47%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.60%) SQL
2 11 (12.79%) C#
2 11 (12.79%) Java
3 8 (9.30%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.98%) Python
4 6 (6.98%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.49%) Go
5 3 (3.49%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.16%) Data Analysis Expressions
6 1 (1.16%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (6.98%) Degree
2 5 (5.81%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.65%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.49%) CBAP
4 3 (3.49%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) PMP
6 1 (1.16%) APMG
6 1 (1.16%) CFA
6 1 (1.16%) IIBA
6 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.16%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.49%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.49%) PMO
1 3 (3.49%) PSD2
2 2 (2.33%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.33%) GDPR
2 2 (2.33%) ISO 8583
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.16%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS
3 1 (1.16%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.16%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.16%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.16%) SEPA
3 1 (1.16%) SLA
3 1 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.16%) Ansible
2 1 (1.16%) Grafana
2 1 (1.16%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.16%) Istio
2 1 (1.16%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.16%) Puppet
2 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (13.95%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.98%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.65%) Oracle
3 4 (4.65%) SAP
3 4 (4.65%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.49%) UiPath
5 2 (2.33%) Databricks
5 2 (2.33%) Google
5 2 (2.33%) Informatica
5 2 (2.33%) Pega
5 2 (2.33%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.33%) Talend
5 2 (2.33%) Workday
6 1 (1.16%) Adobe
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.16%) Duck Creek
6 1 (1.16%) HP
6 1 (1.16%) IBM
6 1 (1.16%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.16%) OpenText