QA Analyst Contracts in Central London

Quality Assurance Analyst
London > Central London

The median Quality Assurance Analyst daily rate in Central London is £488 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 135 165 194
Rank change year-on-year +30 +29 -35
Contract jobs requiring a QA Analyst 2 6 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.083% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.17% 0.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 3
10th Percentile - £346 -
25th Percentile - £397 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £550 £365
Median % change year-on-year -11.27% +50.68% -32.72%
75th Percentile - £681 £536
90th Percentile - £693 £635
London median daily rate £463 £675 £488
% change year-on-year -31.48% +38.46% +16.07%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,287 3,547 4,256
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.45% 95.09% 94.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,607 2,418 3,223
10th Percentile £340 £325 £354
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £723 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 23 49
10th Percentile £20.07 £15.50 £15.38
25th Percentile £21.44 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £27.41 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.70% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £28.98 £61.25 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.88 £87.64 £64.35
London median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.69%

QA Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Analyst in Central London

QA Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Analyst in Central London

QA Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Analyst in Central London

QA Analyst
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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
City of London +36 2 £488 -11.27%
QA Analyst
London

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

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, 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 across the Central London region featuring QA Analyst in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Firebase
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
2 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO

QA Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (50.00%) Firebase
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
1 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft