Senior QA Tester Contracts in London

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in London is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 378 426 573
Rank change year-on-year +48 +147 +4
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 3 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.019% 0.024% 0.016%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.026% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 3
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £750 £750
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +63.22%
England median daily rate £600 £663 £525
% change year-on-year -9.43% +26.19% +25.45%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Senior QA Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior QA Tester in London

Senior QA Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior QA Tester in London

Senior QA Tester
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 Senior QA Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 - -
Senior QA Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Senior 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 London region featuring Senior QA Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) QA
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (33.33%) Front Office
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) Oracle

Senior QA Tester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
1 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
1 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Back Office
2 1 (33.33%) Front Office
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
2 1 (33.33%) Sports Betting
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Time Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle