Software Quality Assurance Contracts in London

Software Quality Assurance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Software Quality Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Quality Assurance over the 6 months to 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 481 600
Rank change year-on-year +93 +119 -151
Contract jobs citing Software Quality Assurance 8 15 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.045% 0.056% 0.021%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 0.32% 0.43% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile - £343 £308
25th Percentile £263 £406 £317
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.56% - -2.70%
75th Percentile £521 £488 £585
90th Percentile £614 £508 £622
England median daily rate £408 £419 £450
% change year-on-year -2.69% -6.94% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £50.00 -
England median hourly rate - £50.00 £50.10
% change year-on-year - -0.20% -14.03%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
London

Software Quality Assurance is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 2,488 3,516 5,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 13.97% 13.04% 12.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,765 2,530 3,510
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £800 £788 £750
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 35 83
10th Percentile £13.09 £20.10 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.04 £21.24 £26.00
Median hourly rate £24.34 £26.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.15% -40.45% +122.50%
75th Percentile £43.75 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £53.68 £81.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £22.34 £41.25 £27.50
% change year-on-year -45.84% +50.00% +30.95%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Quality Assurance in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 2024. 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 +40 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) 5G
1 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (12.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) QA Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Software QA Specialist
2 2 (25.00%) Software Quality Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Code Quality
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
4 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
4 3 (37.50%) Scrum
4 3 (37.50%) Security Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Fintech
5 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Migration
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Use Case
5 2 (25.00%) User Experience
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) WCAG