Junior QA Tester Contract Job Trends

Junior Quality Assurance Tester
UK

The median Junior Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in the UK is £175, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 641 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Junior QA Tester 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.004% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £163 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £175 - -
75th Percentile £188 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 47,626 28,777 40,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 92.02% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,832 18,386 25,995
10th Percentile £325 £288 £285
25th Percentile £416 £401 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £494
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.85% -1.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,230 1,296 2,846
10th Percentile £15.70 £13.93 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.49 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.26% -29.33% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.31 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.50 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

Junior QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Junior QA Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Junior QA Tester job vacancy trend in the UK

Junior QA Tester
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Junior QA Tester job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Junior QA Tester job vacancies in the UK

Junior QA Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Junior QA Tester job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Junior QA Tester job vacancies in the UK

Junior QA Tester
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Junior QA Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 3 July 2026. 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
London - 2 £175 -
England - 2 £175 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £175 -

Junior QA Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 3 July 2026, Junior QA Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Junior QA Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (50.00%) New Relic
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Python

Junior QA Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Splunk