QA Analyst Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in the UK excluding London is £513, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 374 432
Rank change year-on-year +28 +58 +53
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 7 27 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.052% 0.13% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.056% 0.14% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 7
10th Percentile £475 £400 £263
25th Percentile £477 £463 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £420
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +19.05% +10.82%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £447
90th Percentile - £517 £490
UK median daily rate £525 £475 £628
% change year-on-year +10.53% -24.30% +39.44%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 12,414 19,637 21,543
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.41% 92.44% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,770 11,718 14,908
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 960 2,494 1,118
10th Percentile £13.46 £12.60 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.59 £15.97 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% - +100.00%
75th Percentile £57.52 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.48 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £27.13 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -27.67% -12.79% +68.63%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in the UK excluding London

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Analyst within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
North of England +11 4 £513 +2.50% 4
Yorkshire +8 4 £513 -0.87% 3
Midlands +10 2 £483 +20.75% 4
West Midlands +5 2 £483 +20.75% 2
Wales +5 1 £525 -4.55%
QA Analyst
UK

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 June 2025, QA Analyst 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) TestRail
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
3 3 (42.86%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) SQL
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) Selenium
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
4 2 (28.57%) ETL
4 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) GCP
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
5 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (14.29%) Postman
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 1 (14.29%) JMeter
5 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) TestRail
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
3 1 (14.29%) Postman
3 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) ETL
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Microservices
4 1 (14.29%) QA Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) C#
2 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA