QA Analyst Contracts

Quality Assurance Analyst
UK

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 524 532 583
Rank change year-on-year +8 +51 +197
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 26 42 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.082% 0.097% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.10% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 34 80
10th Percentile £387 £333 £473
25th Percentile £463 £400 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £628
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -24.30% +39.44%
75th Percentile £798 £500 £738
90th Percentile - £525 £799
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £479 £420
% change year-on-year +4.33% +14.11% +10.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 29,261 40,308 53,403
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.00% 92.99% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,659 25,937 37,084
10th Percentile £287 £285 £313
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,318 2,814 1,558
10th Percentile £13.75 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%
75th Percentile £55.25 £63.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £74.00 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +96.47%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst.

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Analyst over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in the UK

QA Analyst
Top 9 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 5 July 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
England +37 25 £525 +10.53% 40
London +45 16 £715 +56.71% 20
UK excluding London +30 10 £500 +4.33% 25
Midlands +10 5 £454 +13.50% 9
West Midlands +9 5 £454 +13.50% 3
Work from Home +19 4 £425 -10.53% 18
Yorkshire +5 4 £513 -0.87% 1
North of England -3 4 £513 +2.50% 7
Wales +6 1 £525 -4.55%

QA Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 26 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (46.15%) Java
2 12 (46.15%) Python
3 11 (42.31%) Agile
4 10 (38.46%) JMeter
4 10 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
5 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
5 9 (34.62%) Finance
5 9 (34.62%) Banking
5 9 (34.62%) JIRA
6 8 (30.77%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (30.77%) Stress Testing
6 8 (30.77%) LoadRunner
6 8 (30.77%) Windows
6 8 (30.77%) Linux
6 8 (30.77%) VB
6 8 (30.77%) Bash
6 8 (30.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 7 (26.92%) Scrum
8 6 (23.08%) Selenium
8 6 (23.08%) Migration
9 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
9 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
9 5 (19.23%) SQL
9 5 (19.23%) GCP
9 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (19.23%) User Stories
9 5 (19.23%) DevOps
9 5 (19.23%) Azure
9 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) Azure
1 5 (19.23%) Azure DevOps
1 5 (19.23%) GCP
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) AWS Data Pipeline
4 1 (3.85%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.85%) dbt
4 1 (3.85%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) LAN
1 1 (3.85%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Data Mining
2 1 (3.85%) BigQuery
2 1 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (3.85%) Looker
2 1 (3.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) JMeter
2 9 (34.62%) JIRA
3 8 (30.77%) LoadRunner
4 6 (23.08%) Selenium
5 4 (15.38%) TestRail
6 3 (11.54%) JUnit
7 2 (7.69%) Jenkins
7 2 (7.69%) Postman
7 2 (7.69%) TestPartner
8 1 (3.85%) Appium
8 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
8 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
8 1 (3.85%) eggPlant
8 1 (3.85%) Gatling
8 1 (3.85%) Git
8 1 (3.85%) HP UFT
8 1 (3.85%) REST Assured
8 1 (3.85%) Robot Framework
8 1 (3.85%) TeamCity
8 1 (3.85%) TestCafe
General
1 9 (34.62%) Banking
1 9 (34.62%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (7.69%) .NET
2 2 (7.69%) Middleware
3 1 (3.85%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.85%) Kafka
3 1 (3.85%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 3 (11.54%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) SCADA
3 2 (7.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (7.69%) Virtual Team
4 1 (3.85%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.85%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (42.31%) Agile
2 10 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
3 9 (34.62%) Test Automation
4 8 (30.77%) Stress Testing
5 7 (26.92%) Scrum
6 6 (23.08%) Migration
7 5 (19.23%) DevOps
7 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Regression Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Test Scripting
7 5 (19.23%) Test Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) User Stories
8 4 (15.38%) API Testing
8 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
9 3 (11.54%) Data Pipeline
9 3 (11.54%) Defect Management
9 3 (11.54%) Microservices
9 3 (11.54%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (11.54%) Scenario Testing
9 3 (11.54%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) Java
1 12 (46.15%) Python
2 8 (30.77%) Bash
2 8 (30.77%) VB
3 5 (19.23%) SQL
4 2 (7.69%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.85%) C#
5 1 (3.85%) RPG
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) MuleSoft
1 2 (7.69%) Oracle
2 1 (3.85%) Cisco
2 1 (3.85%) Google