QA Leader Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Lead
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in London is £515, 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 336 364 463
Rank change year-on-year +28 +99 +105
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 17 27 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.14% 0.15% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.16% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £415 £286 £518
25th Percentile £450 £418 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £628
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% -12.35% +19.52%
75th Percentile £538 £800 £801
90th Percentile £588 - £823
England median daily rate £500 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -9.09% -8.33% +26.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £68.75 -
England median hourly rate - £68.75 -

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 Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Leader in London

QA Leader
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 Leader 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
South London +8 2 £425 -
Central London +3 2 £525 -17.65% 1
East London - 1 £495 - 1
QA Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Leader 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 Leader in the job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
3 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
4 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) Selenium
5 4 (23.53%) Finance
5 4 (23.53%) C#
5 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (17.65%) DevOps
6 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Cyber Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
6 3 (17.65%) Postman
6 3 (17.65%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (17.65%) Security Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) JIRA
7 2 (11.76%) Kanban
7 2 (11.76%) Release Management

QA Leader 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
1 1 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.88%) Datadog
1 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (5.88%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) DB2
1 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) Selenium
2 3 (17.65%) Postman
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) GitLab
3 2 (11.76%) Jenkins
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
3 2 (11.76%) SpecFlow
4 1 (5.88%) Ant
4 1 (5.88%) Apache Ivy
4 1 (5.88%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) Gradle
4 1 (5.88%) JUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Maven
4 1 (5.88%) MSTest
4 1 (5.88%) NeoLoad
4 1 (5.88%) NUnit
4 1 (5.88%) Ranorex
4 1 (5.88%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Retail
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) JSON
2 1 (5.88%) REST
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) WebSockets
2 1 (5.88%) XML
2 1 (5.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.88%) Hedge funds
2 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (5.88%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
1 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
2 6 (35.29%) Manual Testing
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) Scrum
3 5 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Cyber Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Security Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (17.65%) Threat Intelligence
5 3 (17.65%) Validation
6 2 (11.76%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) Java
2 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.88%) SOQL
3 1 (5.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (5.88%) CEH
1 1 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.88%) Degree
1 1 (5.88%) GIAC
1 1 (5.88%) GPEN
1 1 (5.88%) GXPN
1 1 (5.88%) ISEB
1 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
1 1 (5.88%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) NIST
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle
1 1 (5.88%) Salesforce