QA Consultant Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Consultant
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Consultant daily rate in London is £750 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 496 -
Rank change year-on-year +107 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Consultant 4 3 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.011% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.012% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £700 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £603 -
Median % change year-on-year +24.38% - -
75th Percentile £800 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £750 £603 -
% change year-on-year +24.38% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,650 25,900 36,972
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 95.31% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,044 18,722 26,970
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 341 298 455
10th Percentile £16.02 £17.99 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.63 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +12.90%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

QA Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Consultant in London

QA Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Consultant in London

QA Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Consultant in London

QA Consultant Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, QA Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
2 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Fiddler
2 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing

QA Consultant 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Fiddler
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Fintech
1 4 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 2 (50.00%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (50.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Python
1 4 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA