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QA Engineer | Gov Project | 3 - 6 months | £350 p.d (Inside IR35) | Hybrid (Lond...
Posted 3 days ago by Futureheads
Role: QA EngineerDay Rate: £350 p.d (Inside IR35)Client: Consultancy/UK Gov ProjectLocation: London or Leeds (Remote wit...
- Rate £350 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London or Leeds
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Financial Crime Quality Assurance Officer (contract)
Posted 1 week ago by Randstad Financial & Professional
This role will require competence across the following areas: Demonstrate excellent subject matter expertise of all elem...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Not specified
- Work type Not specified
- Location London, United Kingdom
Salesforce QA (12m Day Rate Contractor)
Posted 1 week ago by Handelsbanken Plc
Job IntroductionHandelsbanken combines a long-established relationship banking model with secure, resilient, and custome...
- Rate Not specified
- Category Not specified
- Work type Not specified
- Location London, United Kingdom
URGENT: QA Engineer (Scala) – Central Government
Posted 1 week ago by Areti Group | B Corp™
URGENT: QA Engineer (Scala) – Central Government SFIA 4 Day Rate: £360pd, inside IR35 | Location: London or Leeds (onc...
- Rate £360 per day
- Category Inside
- Work type Hybrid
- Location London Area, United Kingdom
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About Our QA Engineer Contract Roles in London
What does a qa engineer contractor do?
As a contract QA Engineer, you are hired to design, implement, and execute the testing strategies and processes that ensure software products meet their functional and non-functional requirements before release. The work spans manual and automated testing: exploratory testing of features and user journeys, functional regression testing, performance and load testing, API testing, security testing, accessibility testing, and the development and maintenance of automated test suites that enable continuous testing within CI/CD pipelines. QA Engineer contractors are brought in to provide additional testing capacity during intensive release periods, to build test automation capabilities from scratch on new products, or to improve the quality and coverage of existing testing processes.
What sets strong QA Engineer contractors apart is have evolved significantly towards automation and engineering. Test automation experience, particularly using Selenium WebDriver or Playwright for web UI testing, and RestAssured, Postman, or similar for API testing, is expected across most professional QA contract roles. Experience writing test automation code in Python, Java, or JavaScript is standard across the market at senior level, as QA automation requires genuine programming ability rather than just tool knowledge. Familiarity with performance testing tools including JMeter, Gatling, or k6 is valued for roles with a performance testing dimension. Experience integrating automated test suites into CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or GitLab CI, and maintaining test environments including containerised environments using Docker, is expected at senior QA Engineer level. ISTQB Foundation certification is widely held, though practical automation experience is typically weighted more heavily than certification in the contractor selection process.
What is the market like for qa engineer contractors?
QA Engineer contracting is a consistently active market across technology product, financial services, healthcare, and e-commerce sectors, driven by the ongoing investment in digital products and the critical role of quality assurance in protecting the user experience and commercial reputation of those products. The market has shifted significantly towards automated testing, and contractors who can build and maintain robust automated test suites are in considerably stronger demand than those offering only manual testing capability. Contractors with test automation skills in Python or JavaScript alongside experience integrating tests into CI/CD pipelines are in the strongest commercial position. Compensation reflects the technical depth of automation expertise required, with senior SDET-level contractors commanding rates comparable to mid-level software engineers.
What is the contracting market like in London?
London dominates the UK contractor market by volume, depth, and rate levels. The capital concentrates the headquarters and major offices of most FTSE 100 companies, the largest global banks, the Big Four professional services firms, and the central government departments that collectively generate the majority of UK contract demand. Every contracting discipline covered on this site has active demand in London, from niche specialisms like threat intelligence and LLM engineering through to high-volume disciplines like project management and business analysis. The sheer density of employers means contractors in London typically have more choice of engagement at any given time than anywhere else in the UK. Day rates carry a premium of 15 to 25 per cent over the national average across most disciplines, reflecting both the concentration of complex, high-value programmes and the cost of operating in the capital.
How much do qa engineer contractors usually earn in London?
Contract rates for qa engineer roles in London typically range from £385 to £715 per day, depending on the scope of the role, required expertise, and the delivery expectations of the engagement.
How many qa engineer vacancies in London are there on Quality Contracts?
Over the past twelve months, we have tracked over 200 qa engineer contract roles across the site, with London accounting for roughly one in three of those. Data reviewed up to September 2026.