Senior QA Tester Contracts in England

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Senior Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in England is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 544 640 771
Rank change year-on-year +96 +131 -144
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 5 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.012% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.013% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 5
10th Percentile £256 - -
25th Percentile £303 £513 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% +27.78% -
75th Percentile £440 £613 £550
90th Percentile £476 - £670
UK median daily rate £380 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -33.91% +27.78% +5.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,080 46,338 66,904
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 94.61% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,599 32,894 47,614
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,444 1,371 1,856
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.96 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +95.65% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.30 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.88
UK median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%

Senior QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Tester in England

Senior QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior QA Tester in England

Senior QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior QA Tester in England over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior QA Tester in England

Senior QA Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior QA Tester in England

Senior QA Tester
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 Senior QA Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 10 May 2024. 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 +96 5 £380 -33.91%
Senior QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Senior QA Tester 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 Senior QA Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) TestRail
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Front Office
4 2 (40.00%) Back Office

Senior QA Tester 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (40.00%) TestRail
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Back Office
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle