QA Contracts in South London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA 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 29 37 42
Rank change year-on-year +8 +5 +5
Contract jobs citing QA 6 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.24% 2.07% 3.39%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.09% 33.33% 27.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 9
10th Percentile £383 - £488
25th Percentile £388 - £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £380 £693
Median % change year-on-year +5.92% -45.13% +53.89%
75th Percentile £423 - £725
90th Percentile £432 - £785
London median daily rate £500 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -1.82% -

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

QA 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 23 15 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 12.43% 6.20% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 34
10th Percentile £213 - £131
25th Percentile £240 £200 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £403 £428 £428
Median % change year-on-year -5.85% - -14.50%
75th Percentile £522 £533 £568
90th Percentile £624 £616 £716
London median daily rate £530 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -3.64% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £70.24 - -
25th Percentile £72.40 - -
Median hourly rate £78.40 - -
75th Percentile £82.00 - -
90th Percentile £82.72 - -
London median hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £30.75
% change year-on-year +40.40% -19.51% -30.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for QA in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA in South London.

Daily rate trend for QA in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA in South London.

Hourly rate trend for QA in South London

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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 within the South 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
Croydon +8 4 £380 - 2
Bromley -5 2 £425 - 2
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (33.33%) Drupal
2 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Copilot Studio
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (16.67%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) Git
3 1 (16.67%) GitLab
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) REST Assured
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Product Lead
2 2 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 2 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Integration Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) UAT Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) RESTful
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Case Management
2 2 (33.33%) Coaching
2 2 (33.33%) Conversational UI
2 2 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 2 (33.33%) Natural Language Processing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (33.33%) Product Management
2 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft