QA Engineer Contract Job Trends in South London

Quality Assurance Engineer
London > South London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in South London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 April 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -17 - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in South London 0.31% 1.01% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 1.09% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
London median daily rate £423 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -15.50% +14.29% -30.28%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 312 184 232
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.71% 92.93% 97.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 203 126 152
10th Percentile £311 £225 £188
25th Percentile £456 £430 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £745 £637
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 2 20
10th Percentile £54.44 £22.49 £16.62
25th Percentile £54.55 £24.41 £20.25
Median hourly rate £67.70 £27.61 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +145.25% +17.47% +0.17%
75th Percentile £76.58 £30.80 £77.06
90th Percentile - £32.72 £83.75
London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year +7.14% +25.85% -20.54%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

QA Engineer job vacancy trend in South London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for QA Engineer job vacancies in South London

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Engineer within the South London region over the 6 months to 18 April 2026. 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
Croydon -15 1 £600 -
QA Engineer
London

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 18 April 2026, 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 South London region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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 (100.00%) Amazon SageMaker
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Hugging Face
1 1 (100.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (100.00%) TensorFlow
1 1 (100.00%) XGBoost
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Anomaly Detection
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Data Science
1 1 (100.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Natural Language Processing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (100.00%) QA