QA Contracts in the City of London

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 38 80
Rank change year-on-year -18 +42 -21
Contract jobs citing QA 61 107 91
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.49% 4.95% 2.60%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.54% 28.84% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 82 70
10th Percentile £400 £364 £349
25th Percentile £472 £478 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +9.76%
75th Percentile £734 £625 £687
90th Percentile £880 £699 £754
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £548
% change year-on-year - +0.36% +6.93%

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 297 371 459
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 17.00% 17.15% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 269 333
10th Percentile £375 £369 £380
25th Percentile £463 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +0.64% -8.33% +6.67%
75th Percentile £713 £650 £725
90th Percentile £824 £755 £838
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £600
% change year-on-year - -8.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.61 -
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £23.40 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.85% -6.40% -39.76%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for QA in the City of London

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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 17 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for QA in the City of London

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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 17 May 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 - 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 3 (4.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) Anypoint
2 1 (1.64%) Apache
2 1 (1.64%) ArcGIS
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
2 1 (1.64%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (4.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.64%) EViews
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.92%) ION Anvil
2 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.64%) OpenText MBPM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle BPM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.64%) SAP CRM
2 1 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) Azure
2 8 (13.11%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.20%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) GitHub
3 5 (8.20%) Power Platform
4 4 (6.56%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (6.56%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (3.28%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (3.28%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (1.64%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.64%) Datadog
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) IaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) Firewall
1 1 (1.64%) HTTP
1 1 (1.64%) LAN
1 1 (1.64%) VPN
1 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (9.84%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.20%) Power BI
3 2 (3.28%) Data Hub
3 2 (3.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (3.28%) Tableau
4 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
4 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (1.64%) Crystal Reports
4 1 (1.64%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.64%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.64%) Delta Lake
4 1 (1.64%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (1.64%) GIS
4 1 (1.64%) Looker
4 1 (1.64%) Power Query
4 1 (1.64%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (1.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Jenkins
1 7 (11.48%) Selenium
2 6 (9.84%) JIRA
3 4 (6.56%) GitLab
3 4 (6.56%) Postman
4 3 (4.92%) JMeter
5 2 (3.28%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.28%) LoadRunner
5 2 (3.28%) REST Assured
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.64%) Fiddler
6 1 (1.64%) Git
6 1 (1.64%) Hamcrest
6 1 (1.64%) JUnit
6 1 (1.64%) Maven
6 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
6 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
6 1 (1.64%) Xcode
General
1 22 (36.07%) Finance
2 21 (34.43%) Social Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.39%) Banking
4 6 (9.84%) Front Office
4 6 (9.84%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.20%) Financial Institution
5 5 (8.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Back Office
7 2 (3.28%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (3.28%) Legal
8 1 (1.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.64%) International Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.64%) Marketing
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (18.03%) Analyst
2 9 (14.75%) Developer
2 9 (14.75%) Senior
3 8 (13.11%) Business Analyst
3 8 (13.11%) QA Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) DevOps Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) C# Developer
5 4 (6.56%) Test Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Data Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Product Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Project Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (4.92%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) .NET Developer
7 2 (3.28%) C# GUI Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Lead
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Senior Project Manager
7 2 (3.28%) WPF Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.20%) .NET
2 3 (4.92%) REST
2 3 (4.92%) WPF
3 2 (3.28%) CSS
3 2 (3.28%) FIX Protocol
3 2 (3.28%) FpML
3 2 (3.28%) HTML
3 2 (3.28%) JSON
4 1 (1.64%) Gherkin
4 1 (1.64%) iOS SDK
4 1 (1.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) Middleware
4 1 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.64%) Pandas
4 1 (1.64%) pytest
4 1 (1.64%) RAML
4 1 (1.64%) Visualforce
4 1 (1.64%) Web Services
4 1 (1.64%) WinForms
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.56%) Fixed Income
2 4 (6.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.92%) Digital Media
3 3 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
4 2 (3.28%) Data Structures
4 2 (3.28%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.64%) Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 1 (1.64%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.64%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.64%) Sports Betting
5 1 (1.64%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.92%) Linux
1 3 (4.92%) Windows
2 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.64%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (32.79%) Test Automation
2 19 (31.15%) Agile
2 19 (31.15%) CI/CD
3 14 (22.95%) DevOps
4 11 (18.03%) Continuous Integration
5 10 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (16.39%) Test Strategy
5 10 (16.39%) Validation
6 9 (14.75%) User Acceptance Testing
7 8 (13.11%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.11%) Data Analysis
7 8 (13.11%) Scrum
7 8 (13.11%) SDLC
7 8 (13.11%) Software Testing
7 8 (13.11%) Test Scripting
8 7 (11.48%) Business Intelligence
8 7 (11.48%) Migration
8 7 (11.48%) Regression Testing
9 6 (9.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (8.20%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.95%) SQL
2 12 (19.67%) C#
3 11 (18.03%) Python
4 5 (8.20%) Java
4 5 (8.20%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.92%) Bash
6 1 (1.64%) ABAP
6 1 (1.64%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.64%) Objective-C
6 1 (1.64%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.64%) R
6 1 (1.64%) Swift
Qualifications
1 10 (16.39%) Degree
2 4 (6.56%) Security Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (3.28%) EnCE
3 2 (3.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (3.28%) SC Cleared
3 2 (3.28%) TOGAF Certification
4 1 (1.64%) CEH
4 1 (1.64%) CFA
4 1 (1.64%) GIAC
4 1 (1.64%) GPEN
4 1 (1.64%) GXPN
4 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.64%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
1 3 (4.92%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 2 (3.28%) SLA
3 1 (1.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.64%) GAAP
3 1 (1.64%) GDPR
3 1 (1.64%) GxP
3 1 (1.64%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.64%) IFRS
3 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.64%) MiFID
3 1 (1.64%) SOC 2
3 1 (1.64%) UCITS
System Software
1 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (8.20%) Terraform
2 4 (6.56%) Ansible
2 4 (6.56%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.28%) EnCase
3 2 (3.28%) FTK
4 1 (1.64%) Argo
4 1 (1.64%) CloudHub
4 1 (1.64%) Grafana
4 1 (1.64%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.56%) Oracle
3 3 (4.92%) ION Trading
3 3 (4.92%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.92%) Workday
4 2 (3.28%) Cellebrite
4 2 (3.28%) Nuix
4 2 (3.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) Advent
5 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.64%) Cisco
5 1 (1.64%) ESRI
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.64%) Informatica
5 1 (1.64%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.64%) OpenText
5 1 (1.64%) SimCorp
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Talend