QA Leader Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Lead
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Lead daily rate in London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 454 580
Rank change year-on-year +100 +126 -115
Contract jobs requiring a QA Leader 28 29 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.16% 0.11% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.12% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 21 22
10th Percentile £286 £516 £400
25th Percentile £418 £538 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £628 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.35% +19.52% +20.00%
75th Percentile £800 £738 £603
90th Percentile - £823 £683
England median daily rate £550 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -8.33% +26.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £68.75 - -

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 16,506 25,035 36,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,947 18,137 26,928
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £683
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 282 444
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.66 £22.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.75 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +2.14% +8.63%
75th Percentile £44.75 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £79.80 £67.94
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

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 8 May 2024.

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 8 May 2024. 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 - 3 £638 -
South London - 2 - -
QA Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 28 (100.00%) QA
2 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 13 (46.43%) Data Protection Act
3 13 (46.43%) Data Protection
4 10 (35.71%) Python
4 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
5 9 (32.14%) Git
6 7 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 7 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 7 (25.00%) 5G
7 6 (21.43%) Finance
8 5 (17.86%) Equities
8 5 (17.86%) C++
8 5 (17.86%) Hedge funds
8 5 (17.86%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (17.86%) Swift
9 4 (14.29%) SDET
9 4 (14.29%) Bash
9 4 (14.29%) C
10 3 (10.71%) Java
10 3 (10.71%) Agile
10 3 (10.71%) Banking
10 3 (10.71%) Selenium
10 3 (10.71%) Manual Testing
10 3 (10.71%) Test Planning
10 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
11 2 (7.14%) SwiftUI
11 2 (7.14%) Playwright
11 2 (7.14%) Appium
11 2 (7.14%) QA Automation

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.14%) Google Play
2 1 (3.57%) Azure
2 1 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (3.57%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 7 (25.00%) 5G
1 7 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (7.14%) VPN
3 1 (3.57%) 4G
Development Applications
1 10 (35.71%) Jenkins
2 9 (32.14%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) Selenium
4 2 (7.14%) Appium
4 2 (7.14%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.57%) HP UFT
5 1 (3.57%) JIRA
5 1 (3.57%) Katalon Studio
5 1 (3.57%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 3 (10.71%) Banking
3 2 (7.14%) Billing
3 2 (7.14%) Investment Banking
4 1 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Financial Institution
4 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (3.57%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) Playwright
1 2 (7.14%) SwiftUI
2 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.57%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 13 (46.43%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (17.86%) Equities
2 5 (17.86%) Hedge funds
3 1 (3.57%) Derivative
3 1 (3.57%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.57%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Android
1 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
1 2 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 13 (46.43%) Data Protection
3 7 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (17.86%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (14.29%) SDET
6 3 (10.71%) Agile
6 3 (10.71%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.71%) Manual Testing
6 3 (10.71%) Test Planning
7 2 (7.14%) QA Automation
7 2 (7.14%) Test Scripting
7 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (7.14%) Workflow
8 1 (3.57%) Agile Testing
8 1 (3.57%) Continuous Integration
8 1 (3.57%) DevOps
8 1 (3.57%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.57%) Migration
8 1 (3.57%) PRINCE2
8 1 (3.57%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Python
2 5 (17.86%) C++
2 5 (17.86%) Swift
3 4 (14.29%) Bash
3 4 (14.29%) C
4 3 (10.71%) Java
5 2 (7.14%) R
6 1 (3.57%) C#
6 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.57%) Kotlin
6 1 (3.57%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) ISEB
1 2 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (7.14%) Apple
1 2 (7.14%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) HP