QA Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

Quality Assurance (QA)
Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of Westminster requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 11
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing QA 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of Westminster 4.35% 3.64% 9.76%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 20.00% 22.22% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £254 £476 -
25th Percentile £290 £497 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £538 £875
Median % change year-on-year -33.26% -38.57% +105.88%
75th Percentile £437 £572 £981
90th Percentile £479 £589 £1,060
Central London median daily rate £583 £575 £550
% change year-on-year +1.30% +4.55% -4.35%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 10 9 9
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 21.74% 16.36% 21.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 9
10th Percentile £349 £394 £780
25th Percentile £473 £434 £813
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £494 £975
Median % change year-on-year +13.92% -49.36% +62.50%
75th Percentile £600 £543 £1,088
90th Percentile £650 £572 £1,093
Central London median daily rate £525 £561 £580
% change year-on-year -6.46% -3.23% +0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.11 - -
Central London median hourly rate £26.57 £35.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year -24.09% -51.72% +271.79%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster.

QA job vacancy trend in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in the City of Westminster

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

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 Westminster region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Mayfair -5 1 £488 -18.75%
Paddington - 1 £230 - 1
QA
Central London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) WebEx
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix