Tester Contracts in Central London

Tester
London > Central London

The median Tester daily rate in Central London is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 14 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
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 154 146
Rank change year-on-year +46 -8 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 22 21 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.92% 0.56% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.59% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 39
10th Percentile £225 £325 £319
25th Percentile £375 £390 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year - +11.70% -1.05%
75th Percentile £688 £591 £550
90th Percentile £738 £606 £625
London median daily rate £475 £550 £450
% change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% +5.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Central London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Central 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 Central London with a recognized job title 2,283 3,584 4,313
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.32% 95.17% 94.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,618 2,460 3,289
10th Percentile £340 £325 £362
25th Percentile £438 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £560
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +7.14% +6.67%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £798 £813 £763
London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 24 55
10th Percentile £20.19 £15.83 £13.88
25th Percentile £22.13 £19.79 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.81 £58.75 £50.88
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.31 £64.45
London median hourly rate £27.00 £35.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -23.94% +1.43% +8.63%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Central London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Central London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Central London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Central London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Central London

Tester
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 Tester within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 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 +41 21 £600 +14.29% 4
Southwark - 1 £500 -
Tester
London

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

For the 6 months to 14 May 2024, 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 Central London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 16 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 11 (50.00%) Java
3 9 (40.91%) Selenium
4 8 (36.36%) C#
5 7 (31.82%) Equities
5 7 (31.82%) Banking
5 7 (31.82%) Prime Brokerage
6 6 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
6 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
6 6 (27.27%) Agile
7 5 (22.73%) Software Testing
7 5 (22.73%) QA
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
8 4 (18.18%) SQL
9 3 (13.64%) Oracle
9 3 (13.64%) Front Office
9 3 (13.64%) Azure
9 3 (13.64%) WebDriver
9 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
9 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
9 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
10 2 (9.09%) Postman
10 2 (9.09%) User Stories
10 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
10 2 (9.09%) Analytics
10 2 (9.09%) BDD
10 2 (9.09%) Gherkin
10 2 (9.09%) Functional Testing
10 2 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria

Tester Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.55%) CMS
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.55%) Figma
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
1 1 (4.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) Selenium
2 3 (13.64%) Cucumber
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) WebDriver
3 2 (9.09%) Postman
3 2 (9.09%) TestComplete
4 1 (4.55%) Burp Suite
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) Gatling
4 1 (4.55%) JIRA
4 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (31.82%) Banking
1 7 (31.82%) Prime Brokerage
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Front Office
4 2 (9.09%) Back Office
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) .NET
1 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 2 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (4.55%) ADO
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Test Automation
2 6 (27.27%) Agile
2 6 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (22.73%) DevOps
3 5 (22.73%) Software Testing
4 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
5 3 (13.64%) CI/CD
6 2 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (9.09%) Analytics
6 2 (9.09%) Application Packaging
6 2 (9.09%) BDD
6 2 (9.09%) Epics
6 2 (9.09%) Functional Testing
6 2 (9.09%) Project Delivery
6 2 (9.09%) Scrum
6 2 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (9.09%) User Stories
7 1 (4.55%) ERP
7 1 (4.55%) OO
7 1 (4.55%) OOP
Programming Languages
1 11 (50.00%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 2 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (4.55%) C
5 1 (4.55%) C++
5 1 (4.55%) Perl
5 1 (4.55%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) Degree
1 1 (4.55%) ISEB
1 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) OpenLink
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
3 1 (4.55%) Adobe
3 1 (4.55%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) PagerDuty
3 1 (4.55%) Qualtrics