QA Engineer Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 338 362
Rank change year-on-year +35 +24 +127
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 50 53 133
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.40% 0.30% 0.49%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.32% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 37 126
10th Percentile £374 £342 £350
25th Percentile £400 £375 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £628
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -30.28% +16.47%
75th Percentile £700 £500 £738
90th Percentile £798 £545 £810
England median daily rate £450 £438 £600
% change year-on-year +2.86% -27.08% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £65.63 £45.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £68.75 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.09% +37.50% -
75th Percentile - £71.88 £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £35.00 £44.61 £50.00
% change year-on-year -21.53% -10.79% +10.62%

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 9 £500 +11.11% 2
West London +14 4 £400 +6.67% 5
South London +8 2 - - 2
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA 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 London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) QA
2 35 (70.00%) Test Automation
3 28 (56.00%) Python
4 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
5 17 (34.00%) Java
6 16 (32.00%) Agile
7 14 (28.00%) Finance
7 14 (28.00%) Test Scripting
7 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
8 13 (26.00%) Manual Testing
9 12 (24.00%) Selenium
10 11 (22.00%) Azure
10 11 (22.00%) JMeter
10 11 (22.00%) SQL
10 11 (22.00%) Postman
11 10 (20.00%) Test Strategy
11 10 (20.00%) Linux
11 10 (20.00%) LoadRunner
11 10 (20.00%) Regression Testing
11 10 (20.00%) AWS
12 9 (18.00%) Bash
12 9 (18.00%) Banking
12 9 (18.00%) Windows
12 9 (18.00%) JUnit
12 9 (18.00%) DevOps
12 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (16.00%) Non-Functional Testing
13 8 (16.00%) VB
13 8 (16.00%) Software Testing

QA Engineer 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 (2.00%) CMS
1 1 (2.00%) Confluence
1 1 (2.00%) Umbraco
1 1 (2.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.00%) Azure
2 10 (20.00%) AWS
3 7 (14.00%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (8.00%) BrowserStack
4 4 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (8.00%) GitHub
4 4 (8.00%) Sauce Labs
4 4 (8.00%) Snowflake
5 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (4.00%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (2.00%) Amazon EventBridge
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (2.00%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.00%) Fivetran
7 1 (2.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
7 1 (2.00%) Power Automate
7 1 (2.00%) Power Platform
7 1 (2.00%) Serverless
7 1 (2.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (4.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (2.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (2.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
2 1 (2.00%) MS Access
2 1 (2.00%) MySQL
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) Power BI
2 1 (2.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (24.00%) Selenium
2 11 (22.00%) JMeter
2 11 (22.00%) Postman
3 10 (20.00%) LoadRunner
4 9 (18.00%) JUnit
5 7 (14.00%) JIRA
6 6 (12.00%) Appium
6 6 (12.00%) Cypress.io
6 6 (12.00%) Git
7 5 (10.00%) Jenkins
8 4 (8.00%) TestNG
9 3 (6.00%) Cucumber
9 3 (6.00%) GitLab
9 3 (6.00%) REST Assured
10 2 (4.00%) SpecFlow
10 2 (4.00%) Xcode
10 2 (4.00%) XCUITest
11 1 (2.00%) MSTest
11 1 (2.00%) NUnit
11 1 (2.00%) PHPUnit
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (18.00%) Banking
4 4 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Back Office
6 1 (2.00%) Electronics
6 1 (2.00%) Front Office
6 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing
6 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (16.00%) FIX Protocol
2 5 (10.00%) Playwright
3 4 (8.00%) pytest
4 3 (6.00%) Kafka
5 2 (4.00%) .NET
5 2 (4.00%) REST
5 2 (4.00%) RESTful
5 2 (4.00%) SOAP
5 2 (4.00%) Web Services
6 1 (2.00%) Jest
6 1 (2.00%) JSON
6 1 (2.00%) Pandas
6 1 (2.00%) PySpark
6 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
6 1 (2.00%) WebSockets
6 1 (2.00%) WireMock
6 1 (2.00%) XML
6 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 6 (12.00%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.00%) Mobile App
4 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Derivative
5 1 (2.00%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Linux
2 9 (18.00%) Windows
3 4 (8.00%) Android
3 4 (8.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (70.00%) Test Automation
2 21 (42.00%) CI/CD
3 16 (32.00%) Agile
4 14 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (28.00%) Test Scripting
5 13 (26.00%) Manual Testing
6 10 (20.00%) Regression Testing
6 10 (20.00%) Test Strategy
7 9 (18.00%) DevOps
8 8 (16.00%) Non-Functional Testing
8 8 (16.00%) Scrum
8 8 (16.00%) Software Testing
8 8 (16.00%) Stress Testing
9 7 (14.00%) Data Pipeline
9 7 (14.00%) QA Automation
9 7 (14.00%) Validation
10 6 (12.00%) API Testing
10 6 (12.00%) E-Commerce
10 6 (12.00%) Security Testing
11 5 (10.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (56.00%) Python
2 17 (34.00%) Java
3 11 (22.00%) SQL
4 9 (18.00%) Bash
5 8 (16.00%) VB
6 7 (14.00%) C#
6 7 (14.00%) JavaScript
7 3 (6.00%) TypeScript
8 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
8 2 (4.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
1 4 (8.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (8.00%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.00%) WCAG
4 1 (2.00%) GxP
4 1 (2.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Kibana
1 1 (2.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (8.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.00%) Databricks
2 2 (4.00%) Informatica
2 2 (4.00%) SAP
3 1 (2.00%) Google
3 1 (2.00%) Oracle
3 1 (2.00%) Talend