QA Contracts in Hounslow

Quality Assurance (QA)
West London > Hounslow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hounslow 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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 5 19 25
Rank change year-on-year +14 +6 +2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing QA 13 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hounslow 18.31% 4.59% 0.75%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 59.09% 31.25% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 1
10th Percentile £351 - -
25th Percentile £374 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £375 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.93% -11.76% -8.60%
75th Percentile £404 £400 £463
90th Percentile £414 £453 -
West London median daily rate £392 £400 £513
% change year-on-year -2.00% -21.95% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £48.00 - -
West London median hourly rate £48.00 - £44.27
% change year-on-year - - +176.69%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Hounslow

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 Hounslow.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 22 16 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hounslow 30.99% 14.68% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 10 4
10th Percentile £225 £125 -
25th Percentile £256 £278 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £375 £413
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -9.09% -16.67%
75th Percentile £406 £414 £479
90th Percentile £504 £489 £510
West London median daily rate £394 £400 £563
% change year-on-year -1.63% -28.89% +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £34.50 - £78.75
25th Percentile £36.75 - £80.63
Median hourly rate £41.00 £18.13 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year +126.14% -78.67% +431.25%
75th Percentile £44.75 - £88.13
90th Percentile £46.70 - £89.25
West London median hourly rate £41.00 £23.80 £63.75
% change year-on-year +72.27% -62.67% +298.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hounslow

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

Job vacancy trend for QA in Hounslow

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Daily Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hounslow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Hounslow over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Hounslow

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hounslow

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hounslow citing QA

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DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hounslow

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Hounslow region over the 6 months to 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Chiswick - 1 £225 - 5
QA
West London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hounslow 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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
2 1 (7.69%) OpenShift
2 1 (7.69%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JUnit
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 4 (30.77%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) Appium
4 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.69%) Bitbucket
5 1 (7.69%) HP UFT
5 1 (7.69%) Postman
5 1 (7.69%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) C++ Developer
2 3 (23.08%) Developer
2 3 (23.08%) QA Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Angular Developer
3 2 (15.38%) C++ Software Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Content Editor
4 1 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Product Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Release Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Web Content Editor
4 1 (7.69%) Web Editor
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (23.08%) Angular 2
1 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
1 3 (23.08%) CSS
1 3 (23.08%) HTML
1 3 (23.08%) JSON
1 3 (23.08%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Legacy Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 6 (46.15%) Computer Science
3 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Regression Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Security Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
4 3 (23.08%) Full-Stack Development
4 3 (23.08%) Kanban
4 3 (23.08%) Memory Management
4 3 (23.08%) OOP
4 3 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 3 (23.08%) Scrum
4 3 (23.08%) Technical Debt
5 2 (15.38%) Clean Code
5 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (15.38%) SDLC
5 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
1 6 (46.15%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) C++
2 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Go
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Computer Science Degree
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 5 (38.46%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
3 1 (7.69%) OCA
3 1 (7.69%) OCP
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Grafana
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle
1 1 (7.69%) Splunk