Applications Tester Contracts in England

Application Tester
UK > England

The median Application Tester daily rate in England is £395 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 537 639 760
Rank change year-on-year +102 +121 -151
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Tester 8 20 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.039% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.042% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 6
10th Percentile £256 £226 £282
25th Percentile £368 £316 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £378 £375
Median % change year-on-year +4.64% +0.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £428 £471 £464
90th Percentile £519 £609 £484
UK median daily rate £395 £378 £350
% change year-on-year +4.64% +7.86% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Applications Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Tester in England

Applications Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Tester in England.

Daily rate trend for Applications Tester in England

Applications Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Tester in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Tester in England

Applications Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Tester in England.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Tester in England

Applications Tester
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +106 5 £390 -2.50%
South West - 2 £600 -
South East +19 1 - -
Applications Tester
UK

Applications Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Applications 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 England region featuring Applications Tester in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
2 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (37.50%) OOP
2 3 (37.50%) OO
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Banking
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) IIS
3 2 (25.00%) Red Team
3 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (25.00%) OSCP
3 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Offensive Security
4 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
4 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) Android

Applications Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) ENOVIA
1 1 (12.50%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) Google Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Database
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Android Studio
2 1 (12.50%) Postman
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
2 1 (12.50%) Xcode
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) JSON
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (12.50%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) OO
1 3 (37.50%) OOP
1 3 (37.50%) SDLC
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (25.00%) Red Team
2 2 (25.00%) Web Application Development
3 1 (12.50%) BDD
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Testing
3 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (12.50%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
3 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (25.00%) OSCP
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Google
2 1 (12.50%) PTC
2 1 (12.50%) Siemens