Quality Engineer Contracts in London

Quality Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in London is £475, 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 347 387 473
Rank change year-on-year +40 +86 +116
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 6 4 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.048% 0.022% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.024% 0.078%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 17
10th Percentile £402 - £334
25th Percentile £404 £563 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £572 £613 £575
90th Percentile £634 £628 £615
England median daily rate £425 £405 £540
% change year-on-year +4.94% -25.00% -1.82%

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%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in London

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in London.

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in London

Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Quality Engineer in London

Quality Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Quality Engineer in London.

Hourly rate trend for Quality Engineer in London

Quality Engineer
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 Quality Engineer 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 - 1 - - 1
Quality Engineer
England

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Quality Engineer 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 Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) Java
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 4 (66.67%) QA
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
3 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (50.00%) API Testing
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
4 2 (33.33%) Appium
4 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
4 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (33.33%) REST
4 2 (33.33%) Kafka
4 2 (33.33%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (16.67%) Confluence
5 1 (16.67%) MSTest
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber

Quality Engineer 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Firebase
2 1 (16.67%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Postman
2 4 (66.67%) JIRA
3 3 (50.00%) Git
3 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (50.00%) Selenium
4 2 (33.33%) Appium
4 2 (33.33%) Cypress.io
4 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (16.67%) Gradle
5 1 (16.67%) JMeter
5 1 (16.67%) JUnit
5 1 (16.67%) MSTest
5 1 (16.67%) NUnit
5 1 (16.67%) Ranorex
5 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 1 (16.67%) Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Kafka
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Flutter
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) pytest
2 1 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (16.67%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (16.67%) WireMock
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) API Testing
2 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) SDLC
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 1 (16.67%) ETRM
4 1 (16.67%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Kanban
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft