QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in Mayfair

Quality Assurance Engineer
City of Westminster > Mayfair

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Mayfair is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 November 2025.

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

6 months to
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Mayfair 9.09% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 9.09% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £488 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Mayfair

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Mayfair. 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 Mayfair with a recognized job title 11 5 30
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 30
10th Percentile £369 - £420
25th Percentile £431 £350 £541
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £788
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -34.92% +31.25%
75th Percentile £545 £600 £938
90th Percentile £600 £713 £1,088
City of Westminster median daily rate £510 £519 £600
% change year-on-year -1.69% -13.54% +14.29%

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 9 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Mayfair

For the 6 months to 20 November 2025, QA 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 Mayfair region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
1 1 (100.00%) Windows

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Mayfair 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) WebEx
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Desktop
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix