QA Contracts in Croydon

Quality Assurance (QA)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 31 32
Rank change year-on-year +8 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing QA 4 3 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 4.40% 2.07% 2.84%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 57.14% 33.33% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £380 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -29.63% +29.19%
75th Percentile - - £569
90th Percentile - - £584
South London median daily rate £403 £380 £693
% change year-on-year +5.92% -45.13% +53.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 7 9 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 7.69% 6.21% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 9
10th Percentile £307 £405 £310
25th Percentile £354 £442 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £494 £430
Median % change year-on-year -15.95% +14.83% -7.73%
75th Percentile £565 £567 £545
90th Percentile £727 £654 £586
South London median daily rate £403 £428 £428
% change year-on-year -5.85% - -14.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Croydon

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for QA in Croydon

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (50.00%) Drupal
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Product Lead
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Integration Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Case Management
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Coaching
1 2 (50.00%) Conversational UI
1 2 (50.00%) Data Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 2 (50.00%) Product Management
1 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (25.00%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft