QA Analyst Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Analyst
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in London is £715, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 353 379 392
Rank change year-on-year +26 +13 +174
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 16 18 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.12% 0.10% 0.33%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.11% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 69
10th Percentile £384 £296 £538
25th Percentile £425 £319 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £715 £450 £675
Median % change year-on-year +58.89% -33.33% +36.71%
75th Percentile £798 £497 £738
90th Percentile - £538 £800
England median daily rate £500 £475 £628
% change year-on-year +5.26% -24.30% +40.22%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 12,644 16,154 23,926
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.22% 94.09% 94.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,560 11,522 17,491
10th Percentile £331 £330 £360
25th Percentile £425 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £681 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 198 275 272
10th Percentile £17.98 £16.49 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.79 £20.98 £23.27
Median hourly rate £30.90 £30.16 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +2.46% -19.40% +6.91%
75th Percentile £50.38 £48.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £69.20 £82.50
England median hourly rate £27.59 £40.33 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.59% -6.22% +70.01%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in London

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in London.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in London

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Analyst in London over the 6 months to 18 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA Analyst in London

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in London

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 18 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
West London - 3 £392 -
Central London 0 1 - - 2
QA Analyst
England

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 18 July 2025, QA Analyst 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 London region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (75.00%) Java
2 12 (75.00%) Python
3 10 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 9 (56.25%) JMeter
4 9 (56.25%) Finance
4 9 (56.25%) Banking
5 8 (50.00%) Windows
5 8 (50.00%) Linux
5 8 (50.00%) LoadRunner
5 8 (50.00%) VB
5 8 (50.00%) Bash
5 8 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 8 (50.00%) Stress Testing
5 8 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
6 7 (43.75%) Agile
7 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
8 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
8 4 (25.00%) Selenium
8 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
8 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
9 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (18.75%) GCP
9 3 (18.75%) JUnit
9 3 (18.75%) Validation
9 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
9 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
10 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
10 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) GCP
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS Data Pipeline
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.25%) dbt
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
1 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.25%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.25%) Looker
1 1 (6.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (56.25%) JMeter
2 8 (50.00%) LoadRunner
3 4 (25.00%) Selenium
4 3 (18.75%) JUnit
5 2 (12.50%) Jenkins
5 2 (12.50%) JIRA
6 1 (6.25%) Appium
6 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
6 1 (6.25%) eggPlant
6 1 (6.25%) Gatling
6 1 (6.25%) Git
6 1 (6.25%) HP UFT
6 1 (6.25%) Postman
6 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
6 1 (6.25%) Robot Framework
6 1 (6.25%) TeamCity
6 1 (6.25%) TestCafe
General
1 9 (56.25%) Banking
1 9 (56.25%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (50.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.25%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Online Banking
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Stress Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 4 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (25.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Data Pipeline
6 3 (18.75%) Security Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Validation
7 2 (12.50%) API Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
7 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 2 (12.50%) Functional Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Generative AI
7 2 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) SDLC
7 2 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) Java
1 12 (75.00%) Python
2 8 (50.00%) Bash
2 8 (50.00%) VB
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) RPG
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) ISTQB
2 2 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (12.50%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Cisco
1 1 (6.25%) Google