QA Consultant Contracts

Quality Assurance Consultant
UK

The median Quality Assurance Consultant daily rate in the UK is £625, 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 517 578 713
Rank change year-on-year +61 +135 +142
Contract jobs requiring a QA Consultant 3 4 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.009% 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.010% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 £700 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £750 £603
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +24.38% -
75th Percentile £638 £800 £603
90th Percentile - - £603
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £604

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

QA Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Consultant in the UK

QA Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for QA Consultant in the UK

QA Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Consultant in the UK

QA Consultant
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Consultant within the UK 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
England +55 2 - -
Work from Home +39 2 £625 -16.67%
London +35 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, QA Consultant 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 Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Swagger
3 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Postman
3 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (33.33%) Python
3 1 (33.33%) Ariba

QA Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Data Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Modelling
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Model Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Ariba
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks
1 1 (33.33%) SAP