QA Test Analyst Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Test Analyst
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Test Analyst daily rate in London is £581 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 397 432 592
Rank change year-on-year +35 +160 -116
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Analyst 3 56 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.017% 0.21% 0.031%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.22% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 50 9
10th Percentile £481 £550 £339
25th Percentile £517 £589 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £675 £428
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% +57.71% -9.89%
75th Percentile £642 £738 £550
90th Percentile £677 £810 £638
England median daily rate £500 £628 £405
% change year-on-year -20.32% +54.94% +12.50%

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 16,495 25,012 36,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.24% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,143 26,715
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £684
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 328 281 442
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.00 £68.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

QA Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Analyst in London

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Test Analyst in London

QA Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Test Analyst in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Test Analyst in London

QA Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Analyst in London

QA Test Analyst
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 Test Analyst within the London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +45 1 £700 -
QA Test Analyst
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, QA Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Appium
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Firebase
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
3 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (33.33%) DTCC
3 1 (33.33%) JSON
3 1 (33.33%) MiFID
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) XML

QA Test Analyst 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 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Firebase
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) DTCC
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (33.33%) SDLC
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) MiFID