QA Manager Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Manager
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Manager daily rate in London is £575, 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 348 390 480
Rank change year-on-year +42 +90 +106
Contract jobs requiring a QA Manager 5 1 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.006% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.006% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 12
10th Percentile £525 - £451
25th Percentile £539 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £529
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.76%
75th Percentile £663 - £575
90th Percentile £708 - £620
England median daily rate £533 £425 £529
% change year-on-year +25.29% -19.66% +5.80%

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 Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Manager in London

QA Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Manager in London

QA Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Manager in London

QA Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Manager in London

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Test Management
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 2 (40.00%) Project Management
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (20.00%) SIEM
5 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
5 1 (20.00%) SOQL
5 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (20.00%) People Management
5 1 (20.00%) Security Patching
5 1 (20.00%) API Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Programme Governance
5 1 (20.00%) Cyber Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Threat Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery

QA Manager 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
2 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (40.00%) Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Threat
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Agile
1 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) SIEM
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) NIST
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (20.00%) Salesforce