Senior QA Tester Contracts in London

Senior Quality Assurance Tester
England > London

The median Senior Quality Assurance Tester daily rate in London is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 473 592
Rank change year-on-year +88 +119 -111
Contract jobs requiring a Senior QA Tester 5 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.029% 0.016% 0.005%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.031% 0.017% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
10th Percentile £256 - £570
25th Percentile £303 £538 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -33.91% -11.54% -
75th Percentile £440 £613 £700
90th Percentile £476 - £730
England median daily rate £380 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -33.91% +27.78% -

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 16,359 24,202 36,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.56% 95.18% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,819 17,639 27,124
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £678 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 326 276 418
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.74 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.60 £22.91
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +8.63%
75th Percentile £46.77 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.75 £82.38 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram 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 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 - 2 £375 -
South London - 1 £380 -
Senior QA Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 5 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) TDD
3 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (60.00%) BDD
3 3 (60.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) REST
4 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
4 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
4 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) TestRail
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) Front Office
4 2 (40.00%) Back Office

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) FitNesse
2 2 (40.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (40.00%) SpecFlow
2 2 (40.00%) TestRail
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Back Office
2 2 (40.00%) Front Office
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Load Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) ERP
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle