QA Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 377 412 470
Rank change year-on-year +35 +58 -73
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 9 44 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 34 25
10th Percentile £262 £300 £275
25th Percentile £334 £340 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +21.43% -15.15%
75th Percentile £477 £460 £388
90th Percentile £559 £534 £455
UK median daily rate £459 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -20.22% +43.75% -5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,847 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,464 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,241 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Tester in the UK excluding London

QA Tester
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 Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 7 May 2024. 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
South West +16 3 £533 +42.00% 1
Midlands +29 2 £285 -32.94% 1
Northern Ireland +8 2 - -
North of England +5 2 £363 -14.71%
Yorkshire +25 1 £325 -35.00%
West Midlands +22 1 £190 -58.92% 1
East Midlands +19 1 £380 +1.33%
North West +6 1 £400 +17.65%
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
3 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Azure
4 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (33.33%) Selenium
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 3 (33.33%) SQL
4 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
5 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
5 2 (22.22%) Maven
5 2 (22.22%) White-Box Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Postman
5 2 (22.22%) Situational Awareness
5 2 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
5 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) .NET
5 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
5 2 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (22.22%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) Java
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum

QA Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (11.11%) Azure Synapse Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) Google Workspace
2 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Data Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Delta Lake
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) Metadata
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) Maven
2 2 (22.22%) NUnit
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Visual Studio
3 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
3 1 (11.11%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) PySpark
2 1 (11.11%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) e-Learning
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 4 (44.44%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) Black-Box Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
4 2 (22.22%) Conflict Resolution
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Open Source
4 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Situational Awareness
4 2 (22.22%) System Testing
4 2 (22.22%) White-Box Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Data Quality
2 2 (22.22%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Cloudera
1 1 (11.11%) Databricks
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
1 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow