QA Tester Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in London is £380, 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 343 367 414
Rank change year-on-year +24 +47 +139
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 10 24 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.080% 0.13% 0.29%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.14% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 20 70
10th Percentile £326 £345 £397
25th Percentile £346 £373 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £471 £628
Median % change year-on-year -19.36% -24.90% +44.25%
75th Percentile £428 £575 £738
90th Percentile £456 £576 £823
England median daily rate £380 £459 £575
% change year-on-year -17.17% -20.22% +53.33%

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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Tester in London

QA Tester
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 Tester 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 £380 -
QA Tester
England

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

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

1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
4 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (50.00%) Agile
5 4 (40.00%) JIRA
5 4 (40.00%) Java
5 4 (40.00%) AWS
5 4 (40.00%) Postman
6 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (30.00%) SDLC
6 3 (30.00%) Git
6 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Selenium
7 2 (20.00%) Scrum
7 2 (20.00%) JMeter
7 2 (20.00%) Finance
7 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
7 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
7 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 2 (20.00%) Kafka
7 2 (20.00%) Confluence
7 2 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (20.00%) BDD
7 2 (20.00%) Gradle

QA Tester 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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) DB2
1 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 4 (40.00%) Postman
3 3 (30.00%) Git
3 3 (30.00%) Selenium
4 2 (20.00%) Cypress.io
4 2 (20.00%) Gradle
4 2 (20.00%) JMeter
5 1 (10.00%) Ant
5 1 (10.00%) Apache Ivy
5 1 (10.00%) Maven
5 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
5 1 (10.00%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Financial Institution
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) Nightwatchjs
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (10.00%) Hedge funds
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Unix
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (30.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (30.00%) SDLC
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Test Assurance
4 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (10.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) SAP
1 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk