QA Contracts in South London

Quality Assurance (QA)
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London requiring QA skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited QA over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 28 23 47
Rank change year-on-year -5 +24 -15
Contract jobs citing QA 8 24 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 3.94% 8.51% 4.02%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category 25.00% 44.44% 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 21 10
10th Percentile £365 - £485
25th Percentile £391 £380 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £539 £673
Median % change year-on-year -14.19% -19.91% +19.64%
75th Percentile £489 £550 £676
90th Percentile £495 £573 £739
London median daily rate £500 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.63 - -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £83.25 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £68.75 £27.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year +150.00% +69.23% -36.89%

All Quality Assurance and Compliance Skills
South London

QA falls under the Quality Assurance and Compliance category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring quality assurance or compliance skills in South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for quality assurance or compliance skills 32 54 36
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 15.76% 19.15% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 42 25
10th Percentile £245 £357 £131
25th Percentile £391 £385 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £518 £550 £676
90th Percentile £535 £575 £694
London median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +5.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £65.94 £22.30 -
25th Percentile £66.42 £37.38 -
Median hourly rate £71.18 £65.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +9.50% - -
75th Percentile £76.77 £75.38 -
90th Percentile £77.75 £80.10 -
London median hourly rate £35.00 £33.75 £26.65
% change year-on-year +3.70% +26.67% -1.31%

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Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Job postings citing QA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South London.

Job vacancy trend for QA in South London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for QA in South London

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Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA in South London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA in South London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA in South London

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Contract Job Locations in South London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA within the South 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
Bromley +1 3 £450 -26.53% 1
Croydon +1 3 £380 -27.62% 3
Merton +2 2 £488 +20.06% 1
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London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (25.00%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) GitHub
2 2 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) PuTTY
2 1 (12.50%) 4G
2 1 (12.50%) 5G
2 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) Postman
3 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (25.00%) SoapUI
4 1 (12.50%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) JUnit
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Local Government
3 2 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (25.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (25.00%) QA Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Senior QA Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Digital Project Manager
3 1 (12.50%) QA Leader
3 1 (12.50%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Quality Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Test Planning
3 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) API Management
4 2 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Conflict Resolution
4 2 (25.00%) Contingency Planning
4 2 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (25.00%) Data Privacy
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) TDD
4 2 (25.00%) Test Assurance
4 2 (25.00%) Test Management
4 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
3 1 (12.50%) C
3 1 (12.50%) C++
3 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
1 2 (25.00%) PMO