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

6 months to
28 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 41 43
Rank change year-on-year +1 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing QA 96 89 112
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.09% 4.77% 4.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.24% 29.97% 28.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 51 93
10th Percentile £363 £348 £363
25th Percentile £426 £413 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.19% +2.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £681 £650
90th Percentile £825 £775 £700
Central London median daily rate £600 £560 £550
% change year-on-year +7.14% +1.82% -
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 396 297 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 21.01% 15.92% 16.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 162 293
10th Percentile £325 £313 £400
25th Percentile £417 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £564 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.87% +2.50% -8.33%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £825 £775 £750
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £560
% change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £20.01 - £25.05
25th Percentile £24.18 - £32.75
Median hourly rate £27.29 - £46.55
Median % change year-on-year - - +138.73%
75th Percentile £31.00 - £60.64
90th Percentile £33.70 - £68.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.75 £46.55
% change year-on-year -9.18% -38.24% +124.35%

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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 January 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 5 (5.21%) Confluence
2 1 (1.04%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.04%) CMS
2 1 (1.04%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.08%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.08%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (2.08%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (2.08%) Unit4 Business World
3 1 (1.04%) Aladdin
3 1 (1.04%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.04%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.50%) Azure
2 9 (9.38%) AWS
3 7 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (3.13%) GCP
5 3 (3.13%) GitHub
5 3 (3.13%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.13%) Snowflake
6 2 (2.08%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.08%) SuccessFactors
6 2 (2.08%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.04%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.04%) SaaS
7 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.04%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.29%) LAN
1 7 (7.29%) WAN
1 7 (7.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.25%) Power BI
2 4 (4.17%) Tableau
3 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
4 2 (2.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.08%) Hazelcast
4 2 (2.08%) MySQL
4 2 (2.08%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.08%) Redis
4 2 (2.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.04%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.04%) Informix
5 1 (1.04%) Power Query
5 1 (1.04%) Snowflake Schema
5 1 (1.04%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 16 (16.67%) JIRA
2 9 (9.38%) Selenium
3 6 (6.25%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
5 4 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.13%) Git
6 3 (3.13%) JMeter
6 3 (3.13%) Postman
6 3 (3.13%) REST Assured
6 3 (3.13%) SpecFlow
7 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.08%) Gatling
7 2 (2.08%) GitLab
7 2 (2.08%) SoapUI
7 2 (2.08%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.04%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.04%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.04%) Storybook
8 1 (1.04%) TestNG
8 1 (1.04%) WinAutomation
General
1 48 (50.00%) Finance
2 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
3 20 (20.83%) Banking
4 15 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (11.46%) Front Office
6 8 (8.33%) Public Sector
7 7 (7.29%) Military
8 5 (5.21%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (5.21%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (4.17%) Investment Banking
9 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
10 3 (3.13%) Back Office
10 3 (3.13%) Financial Institution
10 3 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (3.13%) Legal
11 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.08%) Law
11 2 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (1.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (23.96%) Analyst
2 14 (14.58%) Business Analyst
3 9 (9.38%) Architect
3 9 (9.38%) Developer
3 9 (9.38%) Senior
4 7 (7.29%) Java Developer
4 7 (7.29%) Lead
4 7 (7.29%) Network Architect
5 6 (6.25%) Consultant
6 5 (5.21%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (5.21%) Project Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Programme Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Senior Manager
7 4 (4.17%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.17%) Tester
8 3 (3.13%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
8 3 (3.13%) QA Engineer
8 3 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (3.13%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.25%) Playwright
2 4 (4.17%) JSON
3 3 (3.13%) CSS
3 3 (3.13%) HTML
3 3 (3.13%) REST
4 2 (2.08%) .NET
4 2 (2.08%) Apache Avro
4 2 (2.08%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (2.08%) Gherkin
4 2 (2.08%) Kafka
4 2 (2.08%) Micronaut
4 2 (2.08%) OAuth
4 2 (2.08%) OAuth2
4 2 (2.08%) OpenID
4 2 (2.08%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.08%) SOAP
4 2 (2.08%) Spring
4 2 (2.08%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.08%) Web Services
4 2 (2.08%) WSE
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.42%) Product Ownership
2 8 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (6.25%) Data Structures
3 6 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 4 (4.17%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) Derivative
5 3 (3.13%) PMI
6 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.08%) CMDB
6 2 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.04%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (1.04%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.04%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
7 1 (1.04%) Pricing Data
7 1 (1.04%) Reinsurance
7 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.21%) Windows
2 4 (4.17%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (38.54%) Agile
2 25 (26.04%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (19.79%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (19.79%) Validation
5 18 (18.75%) Migration
5 18 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 16 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 16 (16.67%) Scrum
6 16 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 14 (14.58%) Continuous Improvement
7 14 (14.58%) User Stories
8 13 (13.54%) Project Delivery
9 12 (12.50%) DevOps
9 12 (12.50%) Test Scripting
10 11 (11.46%) Business Analysis
10 11 (11.46%) Scenario Testing
11 10 (10.42%) Project Management
12 9 (9.38%) Kanban
12 9 (9.38%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.75%) SQL
2 13 (13.54%) Java
3 8 (8.33%) C#
4 7 (7.29%) Python
5 5 (5.21%) JavaScript
5 5 (5.21%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.08%) Go
6 2 (2.08%) VB.NET
7 1 (1.04%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 1 (1.04%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (13.54%) SC Cleared
1 13 (13.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (7.29%) Degree
3 5 (5.21%) PMI Certification
4 4 (4.17%) ISTQB
4 4 (4.17%) PMP
5 3 (3.13%) CBAP
6 2 (2.08%) APMP
6 2 (2.08%) CFA
6 2 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) APMG
7 1 (1.04%) IIBA
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Postgraduate
7 1 (1.04%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.21%) PSD2
2 4 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 4 (4.17%) ISO 8583
3 3 (3.13%) ISO 20022
3 3 (3.13%) PCI DSS
3 3 (3.13%) SEPA
4 2 (2.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.08%) GDPR
4 2 (2.08%) PMO
5 1 (1.04%) Basel III
5 1 (1.04%) EMIR
5 1 (1.04%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.04%) IFRS
5 1 (1.04%) IFRS 17
5 1 (1.04%) MiFID
5 1 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (5.21%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (5.21%) Kubernetes
2 3 (3.13%) Ansible
2 3 (3.13%) Grafana
2 3 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 3 (3.13%) Terraform
3 2 (2.08%) Argo
4 1 (1.04%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.04%) Istio
4 1 (1.04%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 7 (7.29%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.17%) ServiceNow
4 3 (3.13%) Oracle
4 3 (3.13%) SAP
5 2 (2.08%) Confluent
5 2 (2.08%) Databricks
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) Informatica
5 2 (2.08%) SmartStream
5 2 (2.08%) Talend
5 2 (2.08%) UiPath
6 1 (1.04%) Adobe
6 1 (1.04%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.04%) HP
6 1 (1.04%) IBM
6 1 (1.04%) Murex
6 1 (1.04%) Pega
6 1 (1.04%) Tenable
6 1 (1.04%) Workday