Senior QA Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in London is £425, 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 348 388 478
Rank change year-on-year +40 +90 +106
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 5 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.040% 0.017% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.043% 0.018% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile - £279 £333
25th Percentile £363 £334 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -12.20% +5.13%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £650
90th Percentile £543 £495 -
England median daily rate £431 £438 £500
% change year-on-year -1.43% -12.50% +4.17%

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%

Senior QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Engineer in London

Senior QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior QA Engineer in London

Senior QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Senior QA Engineer in London

Senior QA 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 Senior QA 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
Central London +4 1 £570 +14.00%
Senior QA Engineer
England

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

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

1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) Python
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Validation
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
5 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (20.00%) Informatica
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (20.00%) SAP
5 1 (20.00%) MS Access
5 1 (20.00%) CRM
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) ERP
5 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
5 1 (20.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database

Senior QA 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Snowflake
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (20.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (20.00%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Delta Lake
2 1 (20.00%) MS Access
2 1 (20.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Pandas
1 1 (20.00%) PySpark
1 1 (20.00%) pytest
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Validation
2 2 (40.00%) ETL
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (40.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Data Lineage
3 1 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Databricks
1 1 (20.00%) Informatica
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) SAP