QA Engineer Contracts in London

Quality Assurance Engineer
England > London

The median Quality Assurance Engineer daily rate in London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 346 484
Rank change year-on-year +1 +138 -38
Contract jobs requiring a QA Engineer 55 136 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.31% 0.54% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.57% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 129 100
10th Percentile £347 £355 £406
25th Percentile £375 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £628 £550
Median % change year-on-year -28.29% +14.09% +33.33%
75th Percentile £525 £738 £575
90th Percentile £575 £810 £600
England median daily rate £438 £600 £505
% change year-on-year -27.08% +18.81% +26.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - £44.00 -
25th Percentile £65.63 £44.38 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £50.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -
75th Percentile £71.88 £55.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £44.61 £50.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -10.79% +10.62% +77.25%

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 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

QA Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing QA Engineer in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for QA Engineer in London

QA Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for QA Engineer in London

QA 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 Engineer within the London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +40 6 £450 -25.00%
West London +22 2 £375 -
South London +6 1 - - 1
QA Engineer
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, QA 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) QA
2 36 (65.45%) Test Automation
3 23 (41.82%) Agile
4 17 (30.91%) Python
5 15 (27.27%) Java
5 15 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (27.27%) Data Protection
5 15 (27.27%) Jenkins
6 13 (23.64%) JIRA
6 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
7 12 (21.82%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 11 (20.00%) Git
9 10 (18.18%) Cucumber
9 10 (18.18%) Apple iOS
9 10 (18.18%) Selenium
10 9 (16.36%) Scrum
10 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
10 9 (16.36%) Regression Testing
10 9 (16.36%) Test Scripting
10 9 (16.36%) Performance Testing
11 8 (14.55%) Android
11 8 (14.55%) AWS
11 8 (14.55%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (14.55%) Appium
11 8 (14.55%) Postman
11 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
12 7 (12.73%) Swift
12 7 (12.73%) API Testing
12 7 (12.73%) BDD

QA 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 5 (9.09%) Confluence
2 1 (1.82%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 8 (14.55%) AWS
2 4 (7.27%) BrowserStack
3 3 (5.45%) Serverless
4 2 (3.64%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (3.64%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (3.64%) Azure
4 2 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.64%) GCP
4 2 (3.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub
5 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.82%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.27%) 5G
1 4 (7.27%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.82%) HTTP
2 1 (1.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 13 (23.64%) JIRA
3 11 (20.00%) Git
4 10 (18.18%) Cucumber
4 10 (18.18%) Selenium
5 8 (14.55%) Appium
5 8 (14.55%) Postman
6 6 (10.91%) SpecFlow
7 5 (9.09%) Cypress.io
8 4 (7.27%) JMeter
8 4 (7.27%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (7.27%) XCTest
9 3 (5.45%) Bitbucket
9 3 (5.45%) REST Assured
10 2 (3.64%) FitNesse
10 2 (3.64%) Gatling
10 2 (3.64%) GitLab
10 2 (3.64%) TestRail
10 2 (3.64%) Visual Studio
10 2 (3.64%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (14.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (9.09%) Banking
2 5 (9.09%) Finance
3 4 (7.27%) Back Office
4 1 (1.82%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.82%) Games
4 1 (1.82%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (1.82%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.82%) Wholesale Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.73%) JSON
2 6 (10.91%) XML
3 5 (9.09%) Playwright
4 3 (5.45%) Gherkin
4 3 (5.45%) Middleware
5 2 (3.64%) .NET
5 2 (3.64%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.64%) CSS
5 2 (3.64%) HTML
5 2 (3.64%) Jest
5 2 (3.64%) Node.js
5 2 (3.64%) React Native
5 2 (3.64%) REST
5 2 (3.64%) SwiftUI
5 2 (3.64%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.82%) Next.js
6 1 (1.82%) Puppeteer
6 1 (1.82%) React
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (7.27%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.64%) Derivative
3 2 (3.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.82%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Replication
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.82%) Social Media
4 1 (1.82%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 1 (1.82%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.18%) Apple iOS
2 8 (14.55%) Android
3 2 (3.64%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.64%) Unix
4 1 (1.82%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (65.45%) Test Automation
2 23 (41.82%) Agile
3 15 (27.27%) Data Protection
4 13 (23.64%) CI/CD
5 12 (21.82%) Scenario Testing
6 11 (20.00%) Software Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Performance Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Regression Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Scrum
7 9 (16.36%) Test Scripting
8 8 (14.55%) Non-Functional Testing
9 7 (12.73%) API Testing
9 7 (12.73%) BDD
10 6 (10.91%) Data Analysis
10 6 (10.91%) Integration Testing
10 6 (10.91%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
11 5 (9.09%) Functional Testing
11 5 (9.09%) Requirements Analysis
11 5 (9.09%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Python
2 15 (27.27%) Java
3 9 (16.36%) JavaScript
4 7 (12.73%) SQL
4 7 (12.73%) Swift
5 5 (9.09%) Bash
6 4 (7.27%) C++
6 4 (7.27%) TypeScript
7 3 (5.45%) C
7 3 (5.45%) Kotlin
8 2 (3.64%) C#
8 2 (3.64%) Perl
8 2 (3.64%) Ruby
9 1 (1.82%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (9.09%) Degree
2 4 (7.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (100.00%) QA
2 4 (7.27%) Accessibility
2 4 (7.27%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 2 (3.64%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (3.64%) CA Agile Central
1 2 (3.64%) Oracle
1 2 (3.64%) PagerDuty
2 1 (1.82%) Apple
2 1 (1.82%) Dynatrace
2 1 (1.82%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.82%) OpenLink
2 1 (1.82%) Perfecto Mobile
2 1 (1.82%) Splunk
2 1 (1.82%) Tealium