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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 37 57
Rank change year-on-year -11 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing QA 77 107 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 4.37% 5.10% 3.79%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 22.38% 31.20% 24.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 64 91
10th Percentile £385 £363 £413
25th Percentile £404 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% -8.33% +2.13%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £698
90th Percentile £899 £735 £763
Central London median daily rate £560 £550 £605
% change year-on-year +1.82% -9.09% +5.22%
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 344 343 455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 19.51% 16.35% 15.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 201 344
10th Percentile £323 £363 £400
25th Percentile £415 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +1.05%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £700
90th Percentile £838 £751 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £551 £598
% change year-on-year -0.18% -7.78% +3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £23.83 £16.60 -
25th Percentile £26.57 £17.50 -
Median hourly rate £34.00 £20.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +70.00% - -
75th Percentile £56.75 £22.50 -
90th Percentile £75.95 £23.40 -
Central London median hourly rate £34.00 £25.18 -
% change year-on-year +35.03% - -

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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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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 18 September 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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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 18 September 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 +2 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 (6.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) CMS
2 3 (3.90%) Drupal
3 2 (2.60%) WordPress
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.30%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (3.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.30%) EViews
4 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (5.19%) ION Anvil
2 3 (3.90%) OpenText MBPM
2 3 (3.90%) Oracle BPM
3 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (2.60%) Unit4 Business World
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (1.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.30%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.18%) Azure
2 9 (11.69%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (5.19%) GitHub
3 4 (5.19%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (3.90%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.60%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.60%) Figma
5 2 (2.60%) Miro
6 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.30%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.30%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.30%) Kong
6 1 (1.30%) Serverless
6 1 (1.30%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) LAN
2 1 (1.30%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (1.30%) SSL
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
2 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.60%) MySQL
4 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.30%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.30%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.30%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) JIRA
2 5 (6.49%) GitLab
2 5 (6.49%) Selenium
3 4 (5.19%) Cypress.io
4 3 (3.90%) Git
4 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.90%) Postman
5 2 (2.60%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.60%) JMeter
5 2 (2.60%) Storybook
6 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.30%) eggPlant
6 1 (1.30%) Fiddler
6 1 (1.30%) LoadRunner
6 1 (1.30%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.30%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.30%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.30%) TestNG
6 1 (1.30%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.30%) Xcode
General
1 37 (48.05%) Finance
2 31 (40.26%) Social Skills
3 17 (22.08%) Banking
4 11 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Front Office
5 7 (9.09%) Investment Banking
6 6 (7.79%) Financial Institution
6 6 (7.79%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.19%) Legal
8 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.90%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.60%) Law
9 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.30%) General Ledger
10 1 (1.30%) International Banking
10 1 (1.30%) Marketing
10 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (24.68%) Analyst
2 14 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 11 (14.29%) Developer
4 8 (10.39%) Senior
5 6 (7.79%) Consultant
6 5 (6.49%) Lead
7 4 (5.19%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (5.19%) Product Analyst
7 4 (5.19%) Test Manager
8 3 (3.90%) .NET Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Architect
8 3 (3.90%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.90%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Product Owner
8 3 (3.90%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.90%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.90%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.69%) .NET
2 6 (7.79%) AngularJS
2 6 (7.79%) CSS
2 6 (7.79%) HTML
2 6 (7.79%) React
3 5 (6.49%) REST
4 3 (3.90%) jQuery
4 3 (3.90%) RESTful
4 3 (3.90%) WPF
5 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
5 2 (2.60%) CSS3
5 2 (2.60%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.60%) Express.js
5 2 (2.60%) HTML5
5 2 (2.60%) Jest
5 2 (2.60%) Middleware
5 2 (2.60%) Spring
5 2 (2.60%) Spring Boot
5 2 (2.60%) Vue
6 1 (1.30%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.69%) Product Ownership
2 5 (6.49%) Data Structures
3 4 (5.19%) Cloud Native
3 4 (5.19%) Fixed Income
4 3 (3.90%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.60%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.30%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.30%) CMDB
6 1 (1.30%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.30%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.30%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.30%) PKI
6 1 (1.30%) PMI
6 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.19%) Windows
2 2 (2.60%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Android
3 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (46.75%) Agile
2 20 (25.97%) User Acceptance Testing
3 17 (22.08%) CI/CD
3 17 (22.08%) DevOps
3 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (19.48%) Scrum
4 15 (19.48%) Test Automation
5 10 (12.99%) Data Analysis
5 10 (12.99%) User Stories
6 9 (11.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (11.69%) Data Mapping
6 9 (11.69%) Test Scripting
6 9 (11.69%) Test Strategy
7 8 (10.39%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (10.39%) SDLC
7 8 (10.39%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.09%) Code Quality
8 7 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
8 7 (9.09%) Unit Testing
8 7 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.88%) C#
1 13 (16.88%) SQL
2 12 (15.58%) JavaScript
3 7 (9.09%) Python
4 6 (7.79%) Java
5 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.30%) ABAP
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) Go
6 1 (1.30%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.30%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.30%) R
6 1 (1.30%) Swift
6 1 (1.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) Degree
2 4 (5.19%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (3.90%) PMI Certification
3 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.60%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (2.60%) PMP
5 1 (1.30%) APMG
5 1 (1.30%) CBAP
5 1 (1.30%) CREST Certified
5 1 (1.30%) GIAC
5 1 (1.30%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.30%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.90%) PMO
3 2 (2.60%) SLA
3 2 (2.60%) WCAG
4 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.30%) GAAP
4 1 (1.30%) IFRS
4 1 (1.30%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.30%) PSD2
4 1 (1.30%) SEPA
4 1 (1.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.90%) Terraform
3 2 (2.60%) Grafana
3 2 (2.60%) Istio
3 2 (2.60%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.30%) Ansible
4 1 (1.30%) Argo
4 1 (1.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.09%) Oracle
3 5 (6.49%) Salesforce
4 4 (5.19%) ION Trading
5 3 (3.90%) OpenText
6 2 (2.60%) Pega
6 2 (2.60%) SAP
7 1 (1.30%) Adobe
7 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco
7 1 (1.30%) Databricks
7 1 (1.30%) Duck Creek
7 1 (1.30%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.30%) Guidewire
7 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.30%) OpenAI
7 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.30%) Tenable
7 1 (1.30%) UiPath
7 1 (1.30%) Workday