QA Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Quality Assurance (QA)
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring QA skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 14 11
Rank change year-on-year +4 -3 +7
Contract jobs citing QA 8 5 22
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 14.04% 7.69% 12.72%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 44.44% 38.46% 46.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 22
10th Percentile £385 - £356
25th Percentile £464 £192 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £450 £534
Median % change year-on-year +32.78% -15.73% +1.71%
75th Percentile £675 - £540
90th Percentile £720 £480 £589
East London median daily rate £598 £440 £534
% change year-on-year +35.80% -17.60% +1.71%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 18 13 47
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 31.58% 20.00% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 41
10th Percentile £373 £213 £450
25th Percentile £516 £438 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.16% -12.04% +27.06%
75th Percentile £653 £596 £594
90th Percentile £729 £671 £720
East London median daily rate £585 £450 £540
% change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +19.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate - - £15.52
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
East London median hourly rate - - £15.52
% change year-on-year - - -13.81%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing QA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets.

QA job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

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Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing QA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing QA

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Daily Rate Histogram in Tower Hamlets

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Tower Hamlets over the 6 months to 10 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Tower Hamlets

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Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 10 November 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
Canary Wharf +3 8 £598 +32.78% 1
QA
East London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP ERP
1 3 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (25.00%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (12.50%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) JMeter
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Automotive
3 2 (25.00%) Back Office
3 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Architect
1 3 (37.50%) ERP Architect
1 3 (37.50%) Solutions Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Back Office Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Endur Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Endur Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) OpenLink Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) OpenLink Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Principal Business Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Architect
2 2 (25.00%) SAP Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) JSON
1 1 (12.50%) Playwright
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
1 1 (12.50%) Sass
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) AI
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Business Case
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) ERP
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (37.50%) TOGAF
3 3 (37.50%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (25.00%) Budgeting
4 2 (25.00%) Change Control
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Engineering
4 2 (25.00%) Digital Innovation
4 2 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 2 (25.00%) Project Governance
4 2 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
1 2 (25.00%) Master's Degree
1 2 (25.00%) MBA
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
1 2 (25.00%) SAP Certification
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) SAP
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
3 2 (25.00%) Concur
3 2 (25.00%) Hitachi
3 2 (25.00%) ION Trading
3 2 (25.00%) OpenLink
4 1 (12.50%) Ariba
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft