Quality Engineer Contracts in England

Quality Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in England is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 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
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 472 539 589
Rank change year-on-year +67 +50 +156
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 14 20 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.053% 0.093%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.058% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 37
10th Percentile £325 £57 £350
25th Percentile £400 £107 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £308 £523
Median % change year-on-year +38.07% -41.14% -4.91%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £573
90th Percentile £610 £593 £580
UK median daily rate £425 £308 £500
% change year-on-year +38.07% -38.44% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.22 £28.48 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% - -
UK median hourly rate £18.22 £28.48 -
% change year-on-year -36.03% - -

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 23,170 34,772 44,476
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.87% 94.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,220 22,729 31,567
10th Percentile £293 £293 £313
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £634 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 2,631 1,333
10th Percentile £13.90 £12.86 £14.27
25th Percentile £17.95 £16.58 £19.51
Median hourly rate £28.75 £39.50 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% -9.47% +74.52%
75th Percentile £57.52 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Quality Engineer in England over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Engineer in England

Quality Engineer
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 Quality Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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
London +47 7 £525 -8.70% 76
South West +47 2 £425 +592.52% 18
East of England +25 2 - - 21
Midlands +12 2 £394 +54.03% 24
West Midlands - 2 £394 - 12
South East +42 1 £200 -44.44% 43
Quality Engineer
UK

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, Quality Engineer 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
2 8 (57.14%) QA
3 7 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (42.86%) Java
5 5 (35.71%) SQL
5 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
5 5 (35.71%) JIRA
5 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
5 5 (35.71%) Postman
5 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
6 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (28.57%) API Testing
6 4 (28.57%) Git
6 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
6 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
6 4 (28.57%) AWS
6 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 4 (28.57%) Selenium
6 4 (28.57%) Scrum
7 3 (21.43%) Validation
7 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
7 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
7 3 (21.43%) Web Services
7 3 (21.43%) Unix
7 3 (21.43%) Linux
7 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
8 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
8 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
8 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing

Quality Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) Confluence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Application Server
2 1 (7.14%) WebLogic
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
2 2 (14.29%) Snowflake
3 1 (7.14%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
3 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (7.14%) Firebase
3 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) LAN
1 1 (7.14%) SSH
1 1 (7.14%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 2 (14.29%) Star Schema
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle ODI
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (7.14%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Jenkins
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
1 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 4 (28.57%) Git
2 4 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Appium
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 2 (14.29%) REST Assured
3 2 (14.29%) TestRail
4 1 (7.14%) DBeaver
4 1 (7.14%) GitLab
4 1 (7.14%) Gradle
4 1 (7.14%) JBehave
4 1 (7.14%) JMeter
4 1 (7.14%) MSTest
4 1 (7.14%) NUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Ranorex
4 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
4 1 (7.14%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) Kafka
2 2 (14.29%) REST
2 2 (14.29%) SOAP
2 2 (14.29%) XML
3 1 (7.14%) .NET
3 1 (7.14%) Flutter
3 1 (7.14%) JSON
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle GoldenGate
3 1 (7.14%) Playwright
3 1 (7.14%) pytest
3 1 (7.14%) RESTful
3 1 (7.14%) RFC 2544
3 1 (7.14%) WebSockets
3 1 (7.14%) WireMock
3 1 (7.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) Data Centre
2 1 (7.14%) Data Structures
2 1 (7.14%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (7.14%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Replication
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Linux
1 3 (21.43%) Unix
2 1 (7.14%) Android
2 1 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Test Automation
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
4 4 (28.57%) API Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (21.43%) Manual Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Validation
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Dimensional Modelling
6 2 (14.29%) ETL
6 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Risk Management
6 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 2 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) Java
2 5 (35.71%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Python
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Scala
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) CCNA
2 1 (7.14%) CCNP
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
2 2 (14.29%) Accessibility
2 2 (14.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.14%) GDPR
3 1 (7.14%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco