QA Manager Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Manager
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Manager daily rate in England is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 548 615
Rank change year-on-year +52 +67 +145
Contract jobs requiring a QA Manager 7 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.026% 0.033% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.036% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 9
10th Percentile £311 - £452
25th Percentile £369 £263 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £413 £550
Median % change year-on-year +32.12% -25.00% +4.76%
75th Percentile £700 £438 £625
90th Percentile £738 £450 £655
UK median daily rate £575 £419 £575
% change year-on-year +37.31% -27.17% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,004 33,616 44,854
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.87% 92.94% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,265 22,076 31,771
10th Percentile £293 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,235 2,327 1,389
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.72 £19.40
Median hourly rate £27.64 £40.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.90% -6.98% +70.01%
75th Percentile £57.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -36.75% -5.88% +65.50%

QA Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured QA Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Manager in England over the 6 months to 17 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for QA Manager in England

QA Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 17 July 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
London +32 4 £650 +44.44% 7
South East +34 2 £313 - 5
East of England - 1 - - 2
QA Manager
UK

QA Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, QA Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring QA Manager in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) Test Management
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
3 3 (42.86%) Finance
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (42.86%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Banking
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
4 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
4 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (28.57%) Test Assurance
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
4 2 (28.57%) People Management
5 1 (14.29%) GCP
5 1 (14.29%) Security Patching
5 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
5 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
5 1 (14.29%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Line Management
5 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 1 (14.29%) SOQL
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (14.29%) Network Management

QA Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
1 4 (57.14%) Test Management
2 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (28.57%) People Management
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Allocation
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Assurance
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (14.29%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Technology Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) NIST
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Salesforce