Quality Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 384 427
Rank change year-on-year +54 +43 +68
Contract jobs requiring a Quality Engineer 6 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.047% 0.072% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.051% 0.078% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 28
10th Percentile - - £350
25th Percentile £413 £57 £365
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £256 £524
Median % change year-on-year +66.25% -51.21% -2.51%
75th Percentile £488 £450 £573
90th Percentile £518 £475 £578
UK median daily rate £425 £380 £525
% change year-on-year +11.84% -27.62% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Median hourly rate £18.22 £28.48 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.03% - -
UK median hourly rate £18.22 £28.48 -
% change year-on-year -36.03% - -

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 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Quality Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Quality Engineer in the UK excluding London

Quality Engineer
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 Quality Engineer within the UK excluding 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
East of England +31 2 - - 26
Scotland - 2 £525 - 10
South West +43 1 £425 +592.52% 21
Midlands +21 1 £425 +66.25% 29
West Midlands - 1 £425 - 17
Quality Engineer
UK

Quality Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Quality 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 UK excluding London region featuring Quality Engineer in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) QA
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) DevOps
2 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) SOAP
3 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Azure
3 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 2 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills

Quality Engineer 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 (16.67%) Confluence
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Application Server
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PaaS
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
1 1 (16.67%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) Git
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Postman
2 2 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (16.67%) JBehave
3 1 (16.67%) JUnit
3 1 (16.67%) MSTest
3 1 (16.67%) NUnit
3 1 (16.67%) Ranorex
3 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (16.67%) Subversion
3 1 (16.67%) TeamCity
3 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (16.67%) JSON
2 1 (16.67%) Playwright
2 1 (16.67%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) WebSockets
2 1 (16.67%) XML
2 1 (16.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Data Structures
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) DevOps
1 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 2 (33.33%) Kanban
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) User Stories
2 2 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Privacy
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (16.67%) Scala
4 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
4 1 (16.67%) VBA
4 1 (16.67%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle