QA Contracts in Central London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for QA skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited QA over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 46 76 60
Rank change year-on-year +30 -16 -7
Contract jobs citing QA 107 109 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 4.47% 2.95% 3.93%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 26.42% 21.89% 26.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 80 133
10th Percentile £380 £339 £359
25th Percentile £475 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £548 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.36% +4.38% +0.48%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £638
90th Percentile £690 £750 £775
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £41.25 - £59.50
Median hourly rate £42.50 - £61.00
75th Percentile £43.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £42.50 £22.49 £29.50
% change year-on-year +89.01% -23.78% +47.50%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
Central London

QA is in the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 405 498 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 16.92% 13.50% 14.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 362 426
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £463 £488 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.67% +8.17%
75th Percentile £650 £713 £650
90th Percentile £765 £825 £769
London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 5
10th Percentile £17.96 - £20.00
25th Percentile £20.44 - £25.25
Median hourly rate £23.40 £25.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% -39.76% +107.50%
75th Percentile £25.92 - £61.75
90th Percentile £35.16 - £62.20
London median hourly rate £24.18 £26.25 £44.50
% change year-on-year -7.89% -41.01% +122.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for QA in Central London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for QA in Central London

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Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in Central London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in Central London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in Central London

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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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 +33 101 £550 -2.22% 24
Southwark +8 2 £500 +60.77%
City of Westminster +1 2 £513 -
Camden -1 2 - -
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London

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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 15 (14.02%) SharePoint
2 4 (3.74%) Confluence
2 4 (3.74%) Oracle Workflow
3 1 (0.93%) CMS
3 1 (0.93%) IIS
3 1 (0.93%) Jupyter
3 1 (0.93%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.87%) Endur
2 1 (0.93%) SAP CRM
2 1 (0.93%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 12 (11.21%) Azure
2 6 (5.61%) Dynamics 365
2 6 (5.61%) GitHub
3 5 (4.67%) AWS
3 5 (4.67%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (2.80%) Azure API Management
4 3 (2.80%) Azure Logic Apps
4 3 (2.80%) BrowserStack
4 3 (2.80%) GCP
4 3 (2.80%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.87%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (1.87%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (1.87%) Mimecast
5 2 (1.87%) Miro
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Functions
6 1 (0.93%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.93%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.93%) Serverless
6 1 (0.93%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.93%) Internet
1 1 (0.93%) Skype
1 1 (0.93%) SSH
1 1 (0.93%) VoIP
1 1 (0.93%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (9.35%) Relational Database
1 10 (9.35%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.54%) RDBMS
3 6 (5.61%) Oracle Database
4 5 (4.67%) DB2
4 5 (4.67%) Sybase ASE
5 4 (3.74%) MySQL
5 4 (3.74%) Siebel EIM
6 3 (2.80%) Power BI
7 2 (1.87%) Big Data
7 2 (1.87%) Metadata
7 2 (1.87%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.93%) Amazon QuickSight
8 1 (0.93%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 14 (13.08%) JIRA
2 8 (7.48%) Selenium
3 6 (5.61%) Cucumber
3 6 (5.61%) Git
3 6 (5.61%) Jenkins
3 6 (5.61%) Postman
3 6 (5.61%) SpecFlow
4 5 (4.67%) GitLab
5 4 (3.74%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.80%) Appium
6 3 (2.80%) Gradle
7 2 (1.87%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.87%) JMeter
7 2 (1.87%) JUnit
7 2 (1.87%) Subversion
7 2 (1.87%) Team Foundation Server
7 2 (1.87%) TestComplete
8 1 (0.93%) AppScan
8 1 (0.93%) Maven
8 1 (0.93%) MSI
General
1 44 (41.12%) Finance
2 34 (31.78%) Social Skills
3 13 (12.15%) Banking
4 8 (7.48%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.74%) Back Office
5 4 (3.74%) Investment Banking
5 4 (3.74%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.80%) Financial Institution
6 3 (2.80%) Legal
6 3 (2.80%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.80%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (2.80%) Retail
7 2 (1.87%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (1.87%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.93%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (0.93%) French Language
8 1 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Tech for Good
8 1 (0.93%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (26.17%) Analyst
2 21 (19.63%) Business Analyst
3 16 (14.95%) Developer
4 9 (8.41%) Data Business Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Data Migration Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Data Migration Business Analyst
4 9 (8.41%) Lead
4 9 (8.41%) Migration Analyst
5 7 (6.54%) Senior
6 6 (5.61%) Finance Business Analyst
6 6 (5.61%) Financial Analyst
6 6 (5.61%) QA Engineer
6 6 (5.61%) SharePoint Analyst
6 6 (5.61%) SharePoint Business Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Financial Business Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Financial Services Business Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.67%) Tester
8 4 (3.74%) Applications Specialist
8 4 (3.74%) DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.54%) Web Services
2 6 (5.61%) .NET
3 4 (3.74%) REST
3 4 (3.74%) XML
4 3 (2.80%) .NET Framework
4 3 (2.80%) AngularJS
4 3 (2.80%) Middleware
4 3 (2.80%) Spring
5 2 (1.87%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.87%) Laravel
5 2 (1.87%) RAML
5 2 (1.87%) React
5 2 (1.87%) SailPoint
5 2 (1.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
5 2 (1.87%) Vue
6 1 (0.93%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (0.93%) Dagger
6 1 (0.93%) OkHttp
6 1 (0.93%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (0.93%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.21%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.61%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (4.67%) Replication
4 4 (3.74%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.80%) Data Structures
5 3 (2.80%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.87%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.87%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.87%) Legacy Code
6 2 (1.87%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.87%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.87%) Web 2.0
7 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.93%) Derivative
7 1 (0.93%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.93%) IoT
7 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.93%) OTC Derivatives
7 1 (0.93%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (12.15%) Linux
2 11 (10.28%) Windows
3 10 (9.35%) Unix
4 4 (3.74%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.93%) Android
5 1 (0.93%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (28.04%) Agile
2 24 (22.43%) Migration
2 24 (22.43%) Test Automation
3 21 (19.63%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (17.76%) Root Cause Analysis
5 18 (16.82%) User Stories
5 18 (16.82%) Validation
6 15 (14.02%) CI/CD
6 15 (14.02%) Data Migration
6 15 (14.02%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (14.02%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (13.08%) Data Management
8 13 (12.15%) Continuous Integration
8 13 (12.15%) DevOps
8 13 (12.15%) GAP Analysis
8 13 (12.15%) Test Strategy
9 12 (11.21%) Test Scripting
10 11 (10.28%) Project Management
11 10 (9.35%) Scrum
12 9 (8.41%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (26.17%) SQL
2 14 (13.08%) C#
2 14 (13.08%) Python
3 12 (11.21%) Java
4 7 (6.54%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.54%) T-SQL
5 6 (5.61%) Perl
6 4 (3.74%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.87%) Bash
7 2 (1.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (1.87%) Kotlin
7 2 (1.87%) PHP
7 2 (1.87%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.87%) VBA
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) Go
8 1 (0.93%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 11 (10.28%) Degree
2 9 (8.41%) SC Cleared
2 9 (8.41%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.67%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (2.80%) ISEB
5 2 (1.87%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (1.87%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.87%) PMP
6 1 (0.93%) CISM
6 1 (0.93%) CISSP
6 1 (0.93%) CRISC
6 1 (0.93%) SANS
6 1 (0.93%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.95%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
3 1 (0.93%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.93%) GxP
3 1 (0.93%) ISO 20022
3 1 (0.93%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.93%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (4.67%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (2.80%) Docker
3 2 (1.87%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.93%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.93%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (3.74%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.80%) Terraform
3 2 (1.87%) Ansible
3 2 (1.87%) Grafana
3 2 (1.87%) Graylog
3 2 (1.87%) Nagios
3 2 (1.87%) Progress Chef
3 2 (1.87%) Prometheus
3 2 (1.87%) Puppet
3 2 (1.87%) SCCM
4 1 (0.93%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.93%) Nessus
4 1 (0.93%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.93%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (14.02%) Oracle
2 14 (13.08%) Microsoft
3 9 (8.41%) SAP
4 7 (6.54%) ServiceNow
5 5 (4.67%) Citrix
5 5 (4.67%) IBM
5 5 (4.67%) Sun
5 5 (4.67%) Sybase
5 5 (4.67%) Veritas
6 4 (3.74%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (3.74%) Siebel
7 3 (2.80%) Splunk
8 2 (1.87%) Google
8 2 (1.87%) OpenLink
8 2 (1.87%) Proofpoint
9 1 (0.93%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.93%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.93%) Murex
9 1 (0.93%) Omniture
9 1 (0.93%) Reuters