QA Test Engineer Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
City of Westminster > Westminster

As of 9 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in Westminster.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 3.13% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 3.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Westminster. 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 Westminster with a recognized job title 30 11 9
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.75% 84.62% 90.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 11 2
10th Percentile £416 £413 £549
25th Percentile £550 £531 £561
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £607 £650 £595
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +9.24% +45.12%
75th Percentile £650 £738 £641
90th Percentile £733 £825 £662
City of Westminster median daily rate £555 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -3.48% +4.55% -

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Westminster

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

QA Test Engineer job vacancy trend in Westminster

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster

For the 6 months to 9 July 2026, QA Test Engineer 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 across the Westminster region featuring QA Test Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA