QA Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Quality Assurance (QA)
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 22 23
Rank change year-on-year -1 +1 +21
Contract jobs citing QA 7 4 13
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 8.43% 4.04% 9.15%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 36.84% 66.67% 54.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 11
10th Percentile £570 £359 -
25th Percentile £581 £373 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £582 £380 £525
Median % change year-on-year +53.09% -27.62% -22.34%
75th Percentile £638 £408 £539
90th Percentile £641 £457 £550
South London median daily rate £582 £450 £539
% change year-on-year +29.28% -16.51% -19.91%

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 19 6 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 22.89% 6.06% 16.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 19
10th Percentile £412 £365 £380
25th Percentile £463 £380 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £435 £528
Median % change year-on-year +20.69% -17.61% -21.78%
75th Percentile £588 £498 £539
90th Percentile £640 £520 £573
South London median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

QA job vacancy trend in Croydon

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Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing QA

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Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing QA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Croydon citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon S3
2 1 (14.29%) Amazon SQS
2 1 (14.29%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery Manager
1 4 (57.14%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Developer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) DevOps Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Principal Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Python Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Security Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Service Support Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) boto
1 1 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 1 (14.29%) LDAP
1 1 (14.29%) pytest
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Change Management
2 4 (57.14%) Commercial Awareness
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
2 4 (57.14%) People Management
2 4 (57.14%) Problem Management
2 4 (57.14%) Process Improvement
2 4 (57.14%) Resource Management
2 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
2 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 4 (57.14%) Service Management
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) API Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 1 (14.29%) SIEM
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (14.29%) CREST Certified
3 1 (14.29%) GIAC
3 1 (14.29%) SANS
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft