Software Quality Engineer Contract Job Trends in London

Software Quality Engineer
England > London

The median Software Quality Engineer daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025.

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

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 367 379 436
Rank change year-on-year +12 +57 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Quality Engineer 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.006% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.007% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £625 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £675 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £650 - -

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 12,391 14,908 19,546
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.04% 93.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,239 9,668 14,245
10th Percentile £334 £345 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £664 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £512 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.57% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 214 165 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.18 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £38.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.17% -4.94% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.88 £58.75 £61.53
90th Percentile £66.92 £79.95 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.55
% change year-on-year -40.82% -6.69% +57.49%

Software Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Software Quality Engineer job vacancy trend in London

Software Quality Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Software Quality Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Software Quality Engineer job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Software Quality Engineer job vacancies in London

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

For the 6 months to 24 October 2025, Software 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 Software Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (50.00%) Big Data
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Databricks
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) ERP
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Firmware
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub

Software 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) QADirector
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing Execution System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Inventory Management
2 1 (50.00%) MLOps
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) 21 CFR Part 11
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow