QA Engineer Contracts in Surrey

Quality Assurance Engineer
South East > Surrey

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in Surrey.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 1.01% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.05% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate - £275 £475
% change year-on-year - -42.11% +7.95%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Surrey

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Surrey. 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 Surrey with a recognized job title 285 545 646
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.64% 92.84% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 404 473
10th Percentile £188 £200 £199
25th Percentile £269 £367 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £543 £614 £600
90th Percentile £660 £692 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 56 38
10th Percentile £20.00 £12.38 £19.53
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.37 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% -36.97% +109.64%
75th Percentile £36.16 £57.63 £61.49
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £64.13
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

Job postings that featured QA Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Surrey.

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in Surrey

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Engineer in Surrey.

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in Surrey

QA Engineer
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Reigate - 3 - - 1
QA Engineer
South East

QA Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Surrey region featuring QA Engineer in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Software Quality Assurance
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) GCP
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing

QA Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Mocha
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Code Quality
2 2 (66.67%) Data Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Software Quality Assurance