QA Contract Job Trends in Kingston Upon Thames

Quality Assurance (QA)
South London > Kingston Upon Thames

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 - 9
Rank change year-on-year - - +5
Contract jobs citing QA 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Kingston Upon Thames 4.00% - 7.50%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 16.67% - 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
South London median daily rate £581 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +29.19% -14.29% -22.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £83.25
South London median hourly rate - - £83.25

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Kingston Upon Thames

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 Kingston Upon Thames.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 6 16 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames 24.00% 66.67% 20.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 4
10th Percentile £249 - £402
25th Percentile £370 - £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £200 £525
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -61.90% +132.04%
75th Percentile £525 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £64.58
25th Percentile - £68.80 £67.69
Median hourly rate - £73.60 £74.13
Median % change year-on-year - -0.71% -
75th Percentile - £78.40 £79.31
90th Percentile - - £81.68
South London median hourly rate - £73.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year - +13.23% -

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Job Vacancy Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Kingston Upon Thames.

QA job vacancy trend in Kingston Upon Thames

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Daily Rate Trend in Kingston Upon Thames

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kingston Upon Thames citing QA

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kingston Upon Thames by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (100.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Vue
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Clean Code
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Issue Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Project Management
1 1 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared