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

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 39 46
Rank change year-on-year -4 +7 +22
Contract jobs citing QA 91 97 121
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 5.17% 4.65% 4.40%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 24.73% 29.48% 27.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 57 101
10th Percentile £381 £349 £375
25th Percentile £405 £413 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.45% +0.09% -6.38%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £695
90th Percentile £771 £738 £750
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £551
% change year-on-year +4.55% -0.09% -4.26%
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 368 329 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 20.90% 15.76% 15.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 269 180 327
10th Percentile £325 £348 £400
25th Percentile £413 £459 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £561 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -2.39% -2.13%
75th Percentile £676 £656 £695
90th Percentile £825 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £584
% change year-on-year - -5.78% +0.65%
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 18 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
2 3 (3.30%) 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%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (16.48%) Azure
2 12 (13.19%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) 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
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 Key Vault
6 1 (1.10%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.10%) GCP
6 1 (1.10%) Kong
6 1 (1.10%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.10%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.10%) LAN
1 1 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
1 1 (1.10%) SSL
1 1 (1.10%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.49%) Power BI
3 4 (4.40%) MySQL
4 2 (2.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 2 (2.20%) Tableau
5 1 (1.10%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
5 1 (1.10%) Informix
5 1 (1.10%) Power Query
5 1 (1.10%) Snowflake Schema
5 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 48 (52.75%) Finance
2 31 (34.07%) Social Skills
3 18 (19.78%) Banking
4 14 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 11 (12.09%) Front Office
6 8 (8.79%) Public Sector
7 5 (5.49%) Investment Banking
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%) Financial Institution
8 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.30%) Law
10 2 (2.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
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 25 (27.47%) Analyst
2 18 (19.78%) Business Analyst
3 13 (14.29%) Developer
4 8 (8.79%) Senior
5 7 (7.69%) Lead
6 5 (5.49%) Consultant
6 5 (5.49%) Java Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Low Latency Java Developer
6 5 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
6 5 (5.49%) Test Engineer
7 4 (4.40%) Architect
7 4 (4.40%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.40%) Test Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.30%) Business Systems Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Payments Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.30%) Senior Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Technical Business Analyst
8 3 (3.30%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.89%) .NET
2 8 (8.79%) CSS
2 8 (8.79%) HTML
3 7 (7.69%) REST
4 6 (6.59%) AngularJS
4 6 (6.59%) React
5 4 (4.40%) Playwright
6 3 (3.30%) Gherkin
6 3 (3.30%) jQuery
6 3 (3.30%) JSON
6 3 (3.30%) RESTful
6 3 (3.30%) Web Services
7 2 (2.20%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.20%) CSS3
7 2 (2.20%) Entity Framework
7 2 (2.20%) FIX Protocol
7 2 (2.20%) HTML5
7 2 (2.20%) SOAP
7 2 (2.20%) Spring
7 2 (2.20%) WPF
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 7 (7.69%) Data Structures
3 5 (5.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.30%) Algorithms
4 3 (3.30%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.30%) CMDB
4 3 (3.30%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.30%) PMI
5 2 (2.20%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.20%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.20%) Derivative
5 2 (2.20%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.20%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.10%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.10%) PKI
6 1 (1.10%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.49%) Windows
2 2 (2.20%) Unix
2 2 (2.20%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (52.75%) Agile
2 25 (27.47%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (26.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 20 (21.98%) CI/CD
4 20 (21.98%) Scrum
4 20 (21.98%) Test Automation
5 18 (19.78%) DevOps
6 16 (17.58%) User Stories
6 16 (17.58%) Validation
7 14 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
8 13 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 13 (14.29%) Test Scripting
9 11 (12.09%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (12.09%) Migration
9 11 (12.09%) Scenario Testing
9 11 (12.09%) Test Strategy
10 10 (10.99%) Data Analysis
10 10 (10.99%) Performance Testing
11 9 (9.89%) Project Delivery
11 9 (9.89%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (19.78%) SQL
2 16 (17.58%) C#
3 13 (14.29%) Java
3 13 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 7 (7.69%) TypeScript
5 6 (6.59%) Python
6 3 (3.30%) VB.NET
7 2 (2.20%) Go
8 1 (1.10%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (1.10%) R
Qualifications
1 7 (7.69%) Degree
2 5 (5.49%) PMI Certification
3 4 (4.40%) ISTQB
3 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.40%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.30%) CBAP
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%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.10%) GIAC
6 1 (1.10%) IIBA
6 1 (1.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.10%) Postgraduate
6 1 (1.10%) SANS
6 1 (1.10%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.30%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.30%) PMO
1 3 (3.30%) PSD2
2 2 (2.20%) ISO 8583
2 2 (2.20%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.20%) WCAG
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%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.10%) SEPA
3 1 (1.10%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (5.49%) 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 11 (12.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.59%) Oracle
2 6 (6.59%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.30%) Databricks
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%) SAP
4 2 (2.20%) SmartStream
4 2 (2.20%) Talend
5 1 (1.10%) Adobe
5 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.10%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.10%) IBM
5 1 (1.10%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.10%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.10%) Workday