QA Contracts in East London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 24 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 30 14
Rank change year-on-year +12 -16 +12
Contract jobs citing QA 4 6 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in East London 3.67% 2.94% 10.00%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.00% 13.33% 41.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 12
10th Percentile £376 £360 £425
25th Percentile £453 £376 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £443 £529
Median % change year-on-year +11.86% -16.35% -18.62%
75th Percentile - £452 £534
90th Percentile - £523 £539
London median daily rate £495 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -5.71% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.24
Median hourly rate - - £22.49
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.65% +88.89% -21.05%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 25 45 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 22.94% 22.06% 24.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 39 34
10th Percentile £405 £417 £425
25th Percentile £495 £420 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £568 £520 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.13% -3.70% -7.30%
75th Percentile £600 £591 £750
90th Percentile £630 £633 -
London median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 7
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £21.24
Median hourly rate - £11.95 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year - -46.85% +4.38%
75th Percentile - - £23.73
90th Percentile - £19.03 -
London median hourly rate £34.50 £23.99 £25.00
% change year-on-year +43.81% -4.04% -43.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in East London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in East London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in East London

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

Daily rate trend for QA in East London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in East London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in East London.

Hourly rate trend for QA in East London

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Contract Job Locations in East 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 East London region over the 6 months to 24 June 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
Tower Hamlets +5 4 £495 +10.00%
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in East 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Axure RP
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UI Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UI/UX Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Low-Fidelity Prototypes
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Service Design
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
2 2 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Issue Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Security Patching
3 1 (25.00%) SIEM
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft