QA Tester Contracts in England

Quality Assurance Tester
UK > England

The median Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in England is £468 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 497 530 690
Rank change year-on-year +33 +160 -94
Contract jobs requiring a QA Tester 36 110 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.099% 0.23% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.24% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 94 66
10th Percentile £313 £336 £275
25th Percentile £359 £413 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £575 £375
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% +53.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £562 £666 £475
90th Percentile £575 £819 £538
UK median daily rate £468 £575 £400
% change year-on-year -18.70% +43.75% -2.44%

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 Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

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

Daily rate histogram for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Tester in England

QA Tester
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 Tester 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 +43 26 £471 -24.90% 2
South West +12 3 £533 +42.00%
Midlands +22 2 £285 -32.94% 3
North of England +13 2 £363 -5.23% 2
West Midlands +23 1 £190 -58.92% 3
East Midlands +18 1 £380 +16.92%
Yorkshire +17 1 £325 -35.00% 1
North West -1 1 £400 +17.65% 1
QA Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, QA Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 28 (77.78%) Test Automation
3 20 (55.56%) Agile
4 17 (47.22%) JIRA
5 15 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
6 14 (38.89%) Test Management
6 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
7 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
7 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
8 12 (33.33%) Scrum
9 11 (30.56%) BDD
9 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
9 11 (30.56%) Postman
10 10 (27.78%) Cypress.io
10 10 (27.78%) JMeter
11 9 (25.00%) Python
11 9 (25.00%) Performance Testing
11 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
11 9 (25.00%) Cucumber
11 9 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
12 8 (22.22%) Test Planning
12 8 (22.22%) SpecFlow
12 8 (22.22%) Confluence
12 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
12 8 (22.22%) TDD
12 8 (22.22%) Software Testing
13 7 (19.44%) Finance
13 7 (19.44%) Validation
13 7 (19.44%) Middleware
13 7 (19.44%) Analytics

QA Tester 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 8 (22.22%) Confluence
2 2 (5.56%) CMS
3 1 (2.78%) Apache
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Mingle
2 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Endur
2 1 (2.78%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 7 (19.44%) BrowserStack
1 7 (19.44%) Firebase
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) BlazeMeter
2 6 (16.67%) SAP Commerce Cloud
3 4 (11.11%) GCP
4 3 (8.33%) Azure
5 2 (5.56%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (2.78%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (2.78%) GitHub
6 1 (2.78%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.78%) SaaS
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (5.56%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.78%) Apache Hive
3 1 (2.78%) Big Data
3 1 (2.78%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Delta Lake
3 1 (2.78%) Hadoop
3 1 (2.78%) Metadata
3 1 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (47.22%) JIRA
2 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
2 11 (30.56%) Postman
3 10 (27.78%) Cypress.io
3 10 (27.78%) JMeter
4 9 (25.00%) Cucumber
5 8 (22.22%) SpecFlow
6 7 (19.44%) Appium
6 7 (19.44%) GitLab
7 6 (16.67%) FitNesse
7 6 (16.67%) Git
8 5 (13.89%) TestRail
9 4 (11.11%) Selenium
10 3 (8.33%) LoadRunner
10 3 (8.33%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (5.56%) SoapUI
11 2 (5.56%) Visual Studio
12 1 (2.78%) JUnit
12 1 (2.78%) Maven
12 1 (2.78%) QARun
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Back Office
4 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (8.33%) Front Office
5 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Banking
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (19.44%) Middleware
1 7 (19.44%) WebdriverIO
2 5 (13.89%) Playwright
3 3 (8.33%) JSON
3 3 (8.33%) REST
3 3 (8.33%) XML
4 2 (5.56%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.78%) .NET
5 1 (2.78%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (2.78%) CSS
5 1 (2.78%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.78%) HTML
5 1 (2.78%) Node.js
5 1 (2.78%) PySpark
5 1 (2.78%) Vitest
5 1 (2.78%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
1 3 (8.33%) Product Ownership
1 3 (8.33%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.56%) Derivative
2 2 (5.56%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.78%) e-Learning
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.78%) Replication
3 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.78%) Android
1 1 (2.78%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 20 (55.56%) Agile
3 15 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
4 14 (38.89%) CI/CD
4 14 (38.89%) Test Management
5 12 (33.33%) Scrum
6 11 (30.56%) BDD
7 9 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 9 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 9 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
8 8 (22.22%) Software Testing
8 8 (22.22%) TDD
8 8 (22.22%) Test Planning
8 8 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
9 7 (19.44%) Analytics
9 7 (19.44%) API Testing
9 7 (19.44%) Defect Tracking
9 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (19.44%) Validation
10 6 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) JavaScript
2 9 (25.00%) Python
3 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 6 (16.67%) TypeScript
4 5 (13.89%) Java
5 1 (2.78%) Bash
5 1 (2.78%) C#
5 1 (2.78%) Perl
5 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
5 1 (2.78%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) ISTQB
1 5 (13.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (5.56%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.56%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (2.78%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kibana
1 1 (2.78%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 6 (16.67%) Oracle
2 4 (11.11%) Google
2 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.56%) CA Agile Central
3 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 2 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (2.78%) Adobe
4 1 (2.78%) Cloudera
4 1 (2.78%) Databricks
4 1 (2.78%) Dynatrace
4 1 (2.78%) PagerDuty
4 1 (2.78%) Qualtrics
4 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow