Senior QA Engineer Contracts in London

Senior Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 364 372 460
Rank change year-on-year +8 +88 +123
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Engineer 11 4 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.081% 0.025% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.026% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 4 13
10th Percentile £375 £297 £330
25th Percentile £417 £379 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% +5.56% -18.18%
75th Percentile £563 £525 £600
90th Percentile £592 £570 £650
England median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -7.69%

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 12,674 15,337 22,789
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.96% 94.20% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,579 10,876 16,694
10th Percentile £326 £346 £356
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 199 243
10th Percentile £17.98 £17.80 £18.55
25th Percentile £22.86 £22.00 £23.88
Median hourly rate £29.54 £33.07 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.69% -11.81% +12.78%
75th Percentile £50.50 £55.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £80.00
England median hourly rate £26.00 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -42.22% +4.65% +67.45%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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 4 August 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 11 (100.00%) QA
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) Python
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 7 (63.64%) Validation
4 6 (54.55%) ETL
4 6 (54.55%) Analytics
4 6 (54.55%) Azure
4 6 (54.55%) AWS
4 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
4 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
5 5 (45.45%) dbt
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
5 5 (45.45%) GCP
5 5 (45.45%) Fintech
5 5 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
5 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
5 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
5 5 (45.45%) Great Expectations
6 4 (36.36%) Apache
6 4 (36.36%) Monte Carlo Method
6 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
6 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
6 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
6 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Data Science

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (45.45%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (36.36%) Apache
2 4 (36.36%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) AWS
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) dbt
2 5 (45.45%) GCP
3 4 (36.36%) Snowflake
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub
4 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (9.09%) Cloud Composer
5 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
5 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (45.45%) BigQuery
1 5 (45.45%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (36.36%) Amazon Redshift
2 4 (36.36%) NoSQL
3 1 (9.09%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (9.09%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (9.09%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (9.09%) Delta Lake
3 1 (9.09%) Looker
3 1 (9.09%) Power BI
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (9.09%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
1 3 (27.27%) Postman
2 2 (18.18%) GitLab
2 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
2 2 (18.18%) Selenium
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) Eclipse
3 1 (9.09%) Gatling
3 1 (9.09%) Git
3 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
3 1 (9.09%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) JMeter
3 1 (9.09%) JUnit
3 1 (9.09%) Locust
3 1 (9.09%) Maven
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) Great Expectations
2 3 (27.27%) REST
3 2 (18.18%) Playwright
3 2 (18.18%) pytest
4 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Virtual Team
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 1 (9.09%) Educational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
3 7 (63.64%) Validation
4 6 (54.55%) Analytics
4 6 (54.55%) Data Pipeline
4 6 (54.55%) ETL
5 5 (45.45%) Data Governance
5 5 (45.45%) Fintech
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (36.36%) Data Science
6 4 (36.36%) Data Transformation
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Monte Carlo Method
7 3 (27.27%) Agile
7 3 (27.27%) Data Analysis
7 3 (27.27%) Data Validation
7 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Python
2 7 (63.64%) SQL
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) Java
3 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Ada
4 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
3 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (9.09%) GDPR
3 1 (9.09%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Databricks
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Informatica
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
26 Senior QA Engineer jobs in England