Senior Quality Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Senior Quality Engineer
England > London

The median Senior Quality Engineer daily rate in London is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 438 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Quality Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.010% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £434 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £484 - -
90th Percentile £494 - -
England median daily rate £463 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 18,620 12,668 15,338
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.08% 93.00% 94.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,167 8,582 10,875
10th Percentile £363 £326 £348
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year +0.92% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 347 202 200
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.98 £17.48
25th Percentile £21.93 £22.93 £22.00
Median hourly rate £39.00 £29.54 £33.07
Median % change year-on-year +32.05% -10.69% -11.81%
75th Percentile £59.36 £50.50 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.75 £72.19
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.32 £45.00
% change year-on-year +77.73% -43.73% +5.88%

Senior Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Quality Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Senior Quality Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Senior Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Quality Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Quality Engineer job vacancies in London

Senior Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 4 August 2026, Senior Quality Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Senior Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Android Development
2 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) Gradle
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) Ruby
2 1 (50.00%) RxJava
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC

Senior Quality Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) CircleCI
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Gradle
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Android Jetpack
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) RxJava
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Android Development
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Asynchronous Programming
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) People Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Kotlin
1 1 (50.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA