Tester Contracts in the City of London

Tester
Central London > City of London

The median Tester daily rate in the City of London is £675 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 155 148
Rank change year-on-year +47 -7 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 19 21 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.87% 0.58% 1.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.61% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 16 37
10th Percentile £369 £325 £325
25th Percentile £419 £390 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year +28.57% +11.70% +21.29%
75th Percentile £688 £591 £550
90th Percentile £741 £606 £625
Central London median daily rate £675 £525 £470
% change year-on-year +28.57% +11.70% +5.62%

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 2,084 3,467 4,015
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.07% 95.12% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,480 2,358 3,026
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.46% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £588 £560
% change year-on-year -6.38% +4.91% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 53
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -6.67% +111.42%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.10
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.67% +108.62%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the City of 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 City of London region over the 6 months to 2 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
London Bridge - 1 £500 -
Tester
Central London

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 City of London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 16 (84.21%) Test Automation
2 11 (57.89%) Java
3 9 (47.37%) Selenium
4 8 (42.11%) C#
5 7 (36.84%) Equities
5 7 (36.84%) Banking
5 7 (36.84%) Prime Brokerage
6 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
6 5 (26.32%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (26.32%) QA
6 5 (26.32%) Agile
6 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
7 4 (21.05%) SQL
7 4 (21.05%) DevOps
8 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
8 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.79%) Oracle
8 3 (15.79%) Front Office
8 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
8 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
8 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
9 2 (10.53%) BDD
9 2 (10.53%) Azure
9 2 (10.53%) Splunk
9 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
9 2 (10.53%) TestComplete
9 2 (10.53%) Back Office
9 2 (10.53%) Scrum
9 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
9 2 (10.53%) .NET

Tester 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 (5.26%) CMS
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.26%) Figma
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) Selenium
2 3 (15.79%) Cucumber
2 3 (15.79%) Jenkins
2 3 (15.79%) WebDriver
3 2 (10.53%) Postman
3 2 (10.53%) TestComplete
4 1 (5.26%) Burp Suite
4 1 (5.26%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.26%) Gatling
4 1 (5.26%) JIRA
4 1 (5.26%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (36.84%) Banking
1 7 (36.84%) Prime Brokerage
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Front Office
4 2 (10.53%) Back Office
5 1 (5.26%) Finance
5 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
1 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.26%) GraphQL
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Equities
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Test Automation
2 5 (26.32%) Agile
2 5 (26.32%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (26.32%) Software Testing
3 4 (21.05%) DevOps
4 3 (15.79%) CI/CD
4 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
5 2 (10.53%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (10.53%) Analytics
5 2 (10.53%) BDD
5 2 (10.53%) Functional Testing
5 2 (10.53%) Scrum
6 1 (5.26%) A/B Testing
6 1 (5.26%) Community of Practice
6 1 (5.26%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (5.26%) Conversion Rate Optimisation
6 1 (5.26%) Epics
6 1 (5.26%) Personalization
6 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (5.26%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Java
2 8 (42.11%) C#
3 4 (21.05%) SQL
4 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Python
5 1 (5.26%) C
5 1 (5.26%) C++
5 1 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (5.26%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) Degree
1 1 (5.26%) ISEB
1 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Oracle
2 2 (10.53%) OpenLink
2 2 (10.53%) Splunk
3 1 (5.26%) Adobe
3 1 (5.26%) Dynatrace
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) PagerDuty
3 1 (5.26%) Qualtrics