Developer in Test Contracts in England

Developer in Test
UK > England

The median Developer in Test daily rate in England is £430 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 542 637 708
Rank change year-on-year +95 +71 -127
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 8 28 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.021% 0.055% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.058% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 20 69
10th Percentile £368 £393 £340
25th Percentile £413 £563 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £685 £475
Median % change year-on-year -37.23% +44.21% -
75th Percentile £500 £696 £565
90th Percentile £604 £738 £625
UK median daily rate £498 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -13.39% +21.05% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +56.72%

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 34,508 48,174 68,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.56% 95.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,974 34,135 48,471
10th Percentile £275 £313 £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 £643 £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 2,404 1,457 1,922
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.33 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +0.94%

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test in England.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Test in England over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test in England.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Test in England

Developer in Test
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 Developer in Test within the England region over the 6 months to 23 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 +82 5 £428 -38.49%
North of England - 3 £500 -
North West - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -
Developer in Test
UK

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 23 April 2024, Developer in Test 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 Developer in Test in the job title.

1 7 (87.50%) Software Testing
1 7 (87.50%) SDET
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
3 5 (62.50%) Selenium
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
4 4 (50.00%) C#
4 4 (50.00%) Java
5 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
5 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 3 (37.50%) Azure
5 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
5 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
6 2 (25.00%) TestNG
6 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
6 2 (25.00%) Fintech
6 2 (25.00%) Terraform
6 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
6 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
6 2 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
6 2 (25.00%) AWS
6 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) QA
6 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 2 (25.00%) SQL
6 2 (25.00%) JMeter

Developer in Test 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (12.50%) Entra ID
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
1 1 (12.50%) NoSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Relational Database
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) JUnit
2 2 (25.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (25.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket Server
3 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (12.50%) Back Office
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
1 1 (12.50%) AngularJS
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) SDET
1 7 (87.50%) Software Testing
2 6 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 5 (62.50%) DevOps
4 3 (37.50%) Integration Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Code Quality
5 2 (25.00%) Fintech
5 2 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
6 1 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (12.50%) B2C
6 1 (12.50%) Business Case
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Service Catalogue
6 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (37.50%) PowerShell
3 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (12.50%) Python
4 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft