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

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 42 46
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 +30
Contract jobs citing QA 91 98 116
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.08% 4.50% 4.33%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.66% 29.25% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 57 100
10th Percentile £380 £349 £374
25th Percentile £405 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £568 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% +3.18% -6.38%
75th Percentile £676 £688 £695
90th Percentile £780 £769 £751
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £550
% change year-on-year +1.77% +2.73% -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 369 335 426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.60% 15.39% 15.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 267 183 316
10th Percentile £325 £348 £388
25th Percentile £415 £463 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £568 £578
Median % change year-on-year -5.29% -1.73% -1.70%
75th Percentile £682 £675 £694
90th Percentile £825 £765 £788
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -2.27% -6.38% +2.17%
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 28 November 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 (7.69%) Confluence
2 3 (3.30%) CMS
3 2 (2.20%) Drupal
3 2 (2.20%) WordPress
4 1 (1.10%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 1 (1.10%) Anypoint
4 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.20%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (2.20%) OpenText MBPM
1 2 (2.20%) Oracle BPM
1 2 (2.20%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.20%) Unit4 Business World
2 1 (1.10%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.38%) Azure
2 10 (10.99%) AWS
3 8 (8.79%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.49%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.20%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.20%) Figma
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub
5 2 (2.20%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (2.20%) Miro
5 2 (2.20%) Snowflake
5 2 (2.20%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.10%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.10%) Azure AI
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.10%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) Kong
6 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) LAN
1 1 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) Power BI
3 2 (2.20%) MySQL
3 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (2.20%) Tableau
4 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.10%) Informix
4 1 (1.10%) Power Query
4 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
4 1 (1.10%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 14 (15.38%) JIRA
2 8 (8.79%) Cucumber
2 8 (8.79%) Selenium
3 5 (5.49%) Git
4 4 (4.40%) Cypress.io
4 4 (4.40%) GitLab
4 4 (4.40%) JMeter
4 4 (4.40%) Postman
5 3 (3.30%) Bitbucket
5 3 (3.30%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.20%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.20%) SoapUI
6 2 (2.20%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.20%) Storybook
7 1 (1.10%) git-flow
7 1 (1.10%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.10%) LoadRunner
7 1 (1.10%) SonarQube
7 1 (1.10%) TestNG
General
1 50 (54.95%) Finance
2 30 (32.97%) Social Skills
3 17 (18.68%) Banking
4 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (10.99%) Front Office
6 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.49%) Legal
7 5 (5.49%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Back Office
8 4 (4.40%) Documentation Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Investment Banking
9 3 (3.30%) Financial Institution
10 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.20%) Law
10 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.10%) Marketing
11 1 (1.10%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (26.37%) Analyst
2 17 (18.68%) Business Analyst
3 12 (13.19%) Developer
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 6 (6.59%) Consultant
5 6 (6.59%) Lead
6 5 (5.49%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Programme Manager
6 5 (5.49%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) DevOps Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Payments Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Test Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) .NET
2 7 (7.69%) CSS
2 7 (7.69%) HTML
3 5 (5.49%) REST
4 4 (4.40%) AngularJS
4 4 (4.40%) Playwright
4 4 (4.40%) React
5 3 (3.30%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.30%) JSON
5 3 (3.30%) RESTful
5 3 (3.30%) Web Services
6 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
6 2 (2.20%) CSS3
6 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.20%) Express.js
6 2 (2.20%) FIX Protocol
6 2 (2.20%) HTML5
6 2 (2.20%) jQuery
6 2 (2.20%) WPF
6 2 (2.20%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (4.40%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.30%) CMDB
5 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.30%) PMI
6 2 (2.20%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.20%) Derivative
6 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.10%) Cloud Native
7 1 (1.10%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.10%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.10%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.69%) Windows
2 4 (4.40%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.20%) Unix
4 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (49.45%) Agile
2 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (25.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (21.98%) Scrum
5 19 (20.88%) CI/CD
5 19 (20.88%) Test Automation
6 18 (19.78%) Validation
7 17 (18.68%) Stakeholder Management
8 16 (17.58%) DevOps
9 15 (16.48%) User Stories
10 14 (15.38%) Migration
10 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 13 (14.29%) Test Scripting
12 12 (13.19%) Continuous Improvement
12 12 (13.19%) Project Delivery
12 12 (13.19%) Test Strategy
13 11 (12.09%) Data Analysis
13 11 (12.09%) Scenario Testing
14 10 (10.99%) Performance Testing
15 9 (9.89%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) SQL
2 16 (17.58%) C#
3 12 (13.19%) JavaScript
4 11 (12.09%) Java
5 6 (6.59%) Python
5 6 (6.59%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.30%) Go
6 3 (3.30%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (6.59%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.40%) ISTQB
4 3 (3.30%) CBAP
4 3 (3.30%) SC Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.20%) PMP
6 1 (1.10%) APMG
6 1 (1.10%) CFA
6 1 (1.10%) IIBA
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.30%) PMO
1 3 (3.30%) PSD2
2 2 (2.20%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.10%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.10%) IFRS
3 1 (1.10%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.10%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.10%) SEPA
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
3 1 (1.10%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Docker
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.49%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.20%) Istio
2 2 (2.20%) Terraform
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Argo
3 1 (1.10%) Grafana
3 1 (1.10%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.10%) Puppet
Vendors
1 12 (13.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
2 6 (6.59%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.30%) Databricks
3 3 (3.30%) SAP
3 3 (3.30%) ServiceNow
3 3 (3.30%) UiPath
4 2 (2.20%) Google
4 2 (2.20%) Informatica
4 2 (2.20%) OpenText
4 2 (2.20%) Pega
4 2 (2.20%) SmartStream
4 2 (2.20%) Talend
5 1 (1.10%) Adobe
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.10%) Duck Creek
5 1 (1.10%) IBM
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) OpenAI
5 1 (1.10%) Tenable