Test Leader Contracts in the City of London

Test Lead
Central London > City of London

The median Test Lead daily rate in the City of London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 168 177
Rank change year-on-year +46 +9 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 7 4 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.32% 0.11% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.12% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 7
10th Percentile £425 - £461
25th Percentile £459 - £514
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £610
Median % change year-on-year - - +43.53%
75th Percentile £714 - £659
90th Percentile £756 - £698
Central London median daily rate £575 - £610
% change year-on-year - - +33.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 2,111 3,471 3,990
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.00% 95.20% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,503 2,350 3,011
10th Percentile £350 £350 £369
25th Percentile £450 £470 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £792 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £580 £560
% change year-on-year -5.17% +3.57% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 26 50
10th Percentile £16.46 £15.50 £13.74
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.25
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.04% +107.23%
75th Percentile £27.50 £58.75 £51.50
90th Percentile £44.10 £86.65 £62.83
Central London median hourly rate £25.78 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -26.34% -6.04% +107.23%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the City of London

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in the City of London

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in the City of London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in the City of London

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in the City of London

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Test Leader 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 City of London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Loan IQ
3 2 (28.57%) WCAG
3 2 (28.57%) Selenium
3 2 (28.57%) Git
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) OOD
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) API Management
3 2 (28.57%) TestRail
3 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
3 2 (28.57%) Postman

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
2 1 (14.29%) Miro
2 1 (14.29%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
2 2 (28.57%) TestRail
3 1 (14.29%) JMeter
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Back Office
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Core
1 2 (28.57%) Playwright
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) API Management
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) OO
3 2 (28.57%) OOD
3 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Coaching
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) WCAG
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft