QA Test Engineer Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in England is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 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
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 520 585 750
Rank change year-on-year +65 +165 -112
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 13 55 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.036% 0.11% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.12% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 54 19
10th Percentile £324 £538 £332
25th Percentile £425 £589 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £628 £413
Median % change year-on-year -30.28% +52.12% -4.35%
75th Percentile £475 £810 £559
90th Percentile £488 £823 £675
UK median daily rate £444 £628 £413
% change year-on-year -29.28% +52.12% -2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,765 45,858 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.60% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,568 47,999
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,343 1,842
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.27 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.92 £45.00 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -17.97% +95.42% +5.92%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.98
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Test Engineer in England.

Daily rate trend for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Test Engineer in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Test Engineer in England.

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Engineer in England

QA Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
London +57 12 £438 -35.19% 2
North of England +26 1 £500 +5.26% 1
North West - 1 £500 -
QA Test Engineer
UK

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, QA Test Engineer 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 England region featuring QA Test Engineer in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
3 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
4 8 (61.54%) Scenario Testing
4 8 (61.54%) JIRA
5 7 (53.85%) Test Scripting
5 7 (53.85%) AWS
6 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
6 6 (46.15%) Java
7 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
7 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
7 5 (38.46%) Gherkin
7 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
7 5 (38.46%) BDD
7 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
8 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 4 (30.77%) Issue Tracking
8 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (30.77%) Functional Testing
8 4 (30.77%) Jest
8 4 (30.77%) Serverless
8 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
8 4 (30.77%) Test Management
8 4 (30.77%) Node.js
8 4 (30.77%) DevOps
8 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
8 4 (30.77%) Selenium
8 4 (30.77%) Python
8 4 (30.77%) Project Management

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (53.85%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (15.38%) BrowserStack
4 2 (15.38%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (61.54%) JIRA
2 5 (38.46%) Cucumber
3 4 (30.77%) Selenium
4 3 (23.08%) Cypress.io
4 3 (23.08%) Jenkins
4 3 (23.08%) JMeter
4 3 (23.08%) Postman
5 2 (15.38%) Gatling
5 2 (15.38%) GitLab
5 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
6 1 (7.69%) Octopus Deploy
6 1 (7.69%) REST Assured
6 1 (7.69%) TeamCity
General
1 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Gherkin
2 4 (30.77%) Jest
2 4 (30.77%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Middleware
3 2 (15.38%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (7.69%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
1 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
2 9 (69.23%) CI/CD
3 8 (61.54%) Scenario Testing
4 7 (53.85%) Test Scripting
5 6 (46.15%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (38.46%) BDD
6 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
7 4 (30.77%) DevOps
7 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven
7 4 (30.77%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (30.77%) Functional Testing
7 4 (30.77%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (30.77%) Project Management
7 4 (30.77%) Test Management
8 3 (23.08%) Performance Testing
8 3 (23.08%) Software Engineering
9 2 (15.38%) Agile Testing
9 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 5 (38.46%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) TypeScript
3 4 (30.77%) Python
4 2 (15.38%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) Perl
4 2 (15.38%) Ruby
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (15.38%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Opsgenie
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) PagerDuty
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk