Software Quality Assurance Contracts in London

Software Quality Assurance
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Software Quality Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 383 478
Rank change year-on-year +32 +95 +112
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 2 8 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.016% 0.045% 0.055%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.10% 0.32% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - - £343
25th Percentile - £263 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £358 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -20.56% -
75th Percentile - £521 £488
90th Percentile - £614 £508
England median daily rate £195 £408 £419
% change year-on-year -52.15% -2.69% -6.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £45.00
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
75th Percentile - - £55.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -0.20%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

Software Quality Assurance falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 1,992 2,495 3,530
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 15.88% 13.99% 13.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,317 1,770 2,546
10th Percentile £313 £350 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £792
England median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 62 36
10th Percentile £19.44 £12.70 £20.25
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.85 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £86.37 £53.73 £81.25
England median hourly rate £34.75 £22.34 £41.50
% change year-on-year +55.55% -46.17% +50.91%

Software Quality Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Software Quality Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Quality Assurance in London

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in London

Software Quality Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Quality Assurance in London

Software Quality Assurance
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 Software Quality Assurance 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 - -
Software Quality Assurance
England

Software Quality Assurance
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 2 (100.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA