Smoke Testing Contracts in Central London

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Smoke Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smoke Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 132 173 191
Rank change year-on-year +41 +18 -29
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 1 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.041% 0.026% 0.088%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.046% 0.029% 0.096%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £433
25th Percentile £519 £633 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £635 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.35% -5.93% +10.20%
75th Percentile £556 £638 £688
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £538 £600 £450
% change year-on-year -10.42% +33.33% -19.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Smoke Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,190 3,501 4,171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.61% 91.34% 91.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,562 2,371 3,191
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 30 42
10th Percentile £20.01 £15.23 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.38 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%
75th Percentile £29.11 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.29 £88.30 £65.43
London median hourly rate £28.50 £39.00 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.92% +6.12% +12.47%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Smoke Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in Central London

Smoke Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smoke Testing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Smoke Testing in Central London

Smoke Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smoke Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 5 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
City of London +47 1 £538 -15.35%
Smoke Testing
London

Smoke Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MSI
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Architect
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Application Discovery
1 1 (100.00%) Application Packaging
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix