QA Test Engineer Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Test Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Test Engineer daily rate in London is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 445 588
Rank change year-on-year +62 +143 -116
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Engineer 12 49 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.069% 0.19% 0.026%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.20% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 49 8
10th Percentile £312 £538 £454
25th Percentile £423 £589 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £675 £563
Median % change year-on-year -35.19% +20.00% +12.50%
75th Percentile £475 £810 £677
90th Percentile £487 £825 £700
England median daily rate £438 £628 £419
% change year-on-year -30.28% +49.85% -2.90%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,327 24,623 36,768
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.43% 95.18% 95.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,806 17,900 26,936
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 280 437
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.07 £22.50 £22.88
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +10.62%
75th Percentile £46.05 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.32 £80.23 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%

QA Test Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Test Engineer in London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Engineer in London

QA Test Engineer
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 18 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
Central London - 1 £450 -
QA Test Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 London region featuring QA Test Engineer in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (83.33%) Agile
3 8 (66.67%) JIRA
3 8 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
3 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
4 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
4 7 (58.33%) AWS
5 6 (50.00%) Java
5 6 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
6 5 (41.67%) BDD
6 5 (41.67%) Gherkin
6 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
6 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (33.33%) Python
7 4 (33.33%) Project Management
7 4 (33.33%) Selenium
7 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 4 (33.33%) DevOps
7 4 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
7 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (33.33%) Test Management
7 4 (33.33%) Node.js
7 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
7 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
7 4 (33.33%) Functional Testing
7 4 (33.33%) Jest
7 4 (33.33%) Serverless

QA Test Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 4 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (33.33%) Serverless
3 2 (16.67%) Azure
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
3 2 (16.67%) GCP
Development Applications
1 8 (66.67%) JIRA
2 5 (41.67%) Cucumber
3 4 (33.33%) Selenium
4 3 (25.00%) Cypress.io
4 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
4 3 (25.00%) JMeter
4 3 (25.00%) Postman
5 2 (16.67%) Gatling
5 2 (16.67%) GitLab
5 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
6 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (41.67%) Gherkin
2 4 (33.33%) Jest
2 4 (33.33%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 2 (16.67%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 8 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Test Scripting
4 6 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (41.67%) BDD
6 4 (33.33%) DevOps
6 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven
6 4 (33.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 4 (33.33%) Functional Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Issue Tracking
6 4 (33.33%) Project Management
6 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 4 (33.33%) Test Management
7 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Software Engineering
8 2 (16.67%) Agile Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 5 (41.67%) JavaScript
2 5 (41.67%) TypeScript
3 4 (33.33%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) Perl
4 2 (16.67%) Ruby
5 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Opsgenie
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) PagerDuty
2 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
2 1 (8.33%) Splunk