Tester Contracts in England

Tester
UK > England

The median Tester daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 276 290
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 293 498 676
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.79% 0.99% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.85% 1.04% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 374 510
10th Percentile £319 £300 £300
25th Percentile £375 £380 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £438
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +2.94%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £524
90th Percentile £680 £699 £588
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 18
10th Percentile £14.22 £55.80 £15.50
25th Percentile £20.18 £61.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -58.13% +289.19% -60.00%
75th Percentile £40.09 £81.50 £43.86
90th Percentile £46.04 £86.60 £63.35
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +289.19% -60.00%

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 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £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 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in England

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in England

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in England

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in England

Tester
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Tester in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Tester in England

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 Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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 +6 149 £475 -12.64% 25
South East +36 69 £413 -1.79% 12
North of England -12 40 £450 +7.46% 17
Yorkshire +14 22 £450 - 4
North West -9 14 £400 +17.65% 12
South West +10 12 £533 +18.33% 12
Midlands +9 12 £365 -14.12% 7
East Midlands +15 8 £380 - 4
West Midlands +18 4 £203 -59.50% 3
North East +3 3 £600 +24.35% 1
East of England +1 1 - - 5
Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 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 England region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 146 (49.83%) Test Automation
2 88 (30.03%) Agile
3 84 (28.67%) Security Cleared
4 59 (20.14%) QA
5 56 (19.11%) Mobile App
6 55 (18.77%) Penetration Testing
7 54 (18.43%) OSCP
7 54 (18.43%) CREST Certified
8 53 (18.09%) Java
8 53 (18.09%) Python
9 51 (17.41%) Social Skills
10 50 (17.06%) Security Testing
11 48 (16.38%) Cybersecurity
12 47 (16.04%) GPEN
12 47 (16.04%) Application Security
12 47 (16.04%) Web Services
12 47 (16.04%) GIAC
13 45 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
13 45 (15.36%) Software Testing
14 44 (15.02%) OWASP
15 42 (14.33%) Selenium
15 42 (14.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
16 41 (13.99%) Virgin Media
16 41 (13.99%) Scenario Testing
16 41 (13.99%) PCI DSS
16 41 (13.99%) SaaS
16 41 (13.99%) C#
17 39 (13.31%) Broadband
17 39 (13.31%) Law
17 39 (13.31%) PaaS

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 10 (3.41%) Confluence
2 5 (1.71%) Apache
3 3 (1.02%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (0.68%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.68%) CMS
4 2 (0.68%) IIS
4 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Windchill
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Mingle
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (1.71%) Endur
2 3 (1.02%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.02%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.99%) SaaS
2 39 (13.31%) IaaS
2 39 (13.31%) PaaS
3 34 (11.60%) Azure
4 27 (9.22%) AWS
5 16 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.73%) GitHub
7 7 (2.39%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.71%) BrowserStack
9 5 (1.71%) Firebase
9 5 (1.71%) Serverless
10 4 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
10 4 (1.37%) BlazeMeter
11 3 (1.02%) GCP
11 3 (1.02%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.02%) SAP Commerce Cloud
12 2 (0.68%) Figma
12 2 (0.68%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 39 (13.31%) 5G
1 39 (13.31%) Broadband
2 8 (2.73%) Wireless
3 4 (1.37%) Internet
4 3 (1.02%) BGP
4 3 (1.02%) Diameter Protocol
4 3 (1.02%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (1.02%) GGSN
4 3 (1.02%) IPsec
4 3 (1.02%) MPLS
4 3 (1.02%) SGSN
4 3 (1.02%) VPN
5 2 (0.68%) Firewall
5 2 (0.68%) HTTP
5 2 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (0.34%) Network Security
6 1 (0.34%) PuTTY
6 1 (0.34%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (3.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (1.37%) Power BI
4 3 (1.02%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (1.02%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.68%) Big Data
5 2 (0.68%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.68%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.34%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.34%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.34%) Metadata
6 1 (0.34%) Parquet
6 1 (0.34%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 42 (14.33%) Selenium
2 34 (11.60%) JIRA
3 28 (9.56%) Cucumber
4 25 (8.53%) JMeter
5 20 (6.83%) Postman
6 19 (6.48%) SpecFlow
7 18 (6.14%) Cypress.io
7 18 (6.14%) Jenkins
8 13 (4.44%) Git
9 9 (3.07%) Appium
9 9 (3.07%) GitLab
9 9 (3.07%) SoapUI
10 8 (2.73%) JUnit
10 8 (2.73%) LoadRunner
10 8 (2.73%) TestRail
11 7 (2.39%) REST Assured
11 7 (2.39%) WebDriver
12 6 (2.05%) FitNesse
12 6 (2.05%) TestComplete
13 5 (1.71%) TestNG
General
1 51 (17.41%) Social Skills
2 39 (13.31%) Law
2 39 (13.31%) Organisational Skills
3 32 (10.92%) Banking
4 27 (9.22%) Finance
5 23 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.85%) Public Sector
6 13 (4.44%) Back Office
7 12 (4.10%) Investment Banking
8 11 (3.75%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.41%) Front Office
10 7 (2.39%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.39%) Prime Brokerage
11 6 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.71%) Wholesale Banking
13 4 (1.37%) Legal
14 2 (0.68%) Electronics
14 2 (0.68%) Retail
15 1 (0.34%) Billing
15 1 (0.34%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 47 (16.04%) Web Services
2 17 (5.80%) REST
3 13 (4.44%) .NET
4 12 (4.10%) ADO
4 12 (4.10%) Gherkin
5 11 (3.75%) JSON
6 10 (3.41%) XML
7 9 (3.07%) Playwright
8 6 (2.05%) .NET Framework
9 5 (1.71%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.71%) SOAP
9 5 (1.71%) WebdriverIO
10 4 (1.37%) Jest
10 4 (1.37%) Middleware
11 3 (1.02%) FIX Protocol
11 3 (1.02%) GraphQL
11 3 (1.02%) HTML
11 3 (1.02%) pytest
11 3 (1.02%) React
11 3 (1.02%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 56 (19.11%) Mobile App
2 8 (2.73%) Equities
2 8 (2.73%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.05%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (2.05%) Operational Technology
4 5 (1.71%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.37%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.02%) Security Posture
6 3 (1.02%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.68%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.68%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
7 2 (0.68%) Derivative
7 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
7 2 (0.68%) PKI
7 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.34%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.34%) Robotics
8 1 (0.34%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 11 (3.75%) Windows
2 9 (3.07%) Linux
2 9 (3.07%) Unix
3 5 (1.71%) Android
4 4 (1.37%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.34%) AIX
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 146 (49.83%) Test Automation
2 88 (30.03%) Agile
3 55 (18.77%) Penetration Testing
4 50 (17.06%) Security Testing
5 48 (16.38%) Cybersecurity
6 47 (16.04%) Application Security
7 45 (15.36%) Software Testing
7 45 (15.36%) Stakeholder Management
8 44 (15.02%) OWASP
9 42 (14.33%) MITRE ATT&CK
10 41 (13.99%) Scenario Testing
11 36 (12.29%) Scrum
12 33 (11.26%) Manual Testing
12 33 (11.26%) Performance Testing
13 31 (10.58%) Test Scripting
14 30 (10.24%) CI/CD
14 30 (10.24%) DevOps
14 30 (10.24%) User Acceptance Testing
15 29 (9.90%) BDD
15 29 (9.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 53 (18.09%) Java
1 53 (18.09%) Python
2 41 (13.99%) C#
3 35 (11.95%) JavaScript
4 34 (11.60%) SQL
5 12 (4.10%) TypeScript
6 10 (3.41%) C++
7 3 (1.02%) C
7 3 (1.02%) Perl
7 3 (1.02%) Ruby
7 3 (1.02%) Scala
7 3 (1.02%) Shell Script
8 2 (0.68%) Delphi
8 2 (0.68%) Go
8 2 (0.68%) Kotlin
8 2 (0.68%) PowerShell
8 2 (0.68%) Swift
8 2 (0.68%) VBScript
9 1 (0.34%) T-SQL
9 1 (0.34%) VB
Qualifications
1 84 (28.67%) Security Cleared
2 54 (18.43%) CREST Certified
2 54 (18.43%) OSCP
3 47 (16.04%) GIAC
3 47 (16.04%) GPEN
4 39 (13.31%) SANS
5 28 (9.56%) SC Cleared
6 14 (4.78%) Degree
7 12 (4.10%) ISTQB
8 8 (2.73%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.39%) CEH
10 6 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 4 (1.37%) CCNA
12 4 (1.37%) CHECK Team Leader
12 4 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
13 3 (1.02%) CCNP
13 3 (1.02%) Master's Degree
14 2 (0.68%) CHECK Team Member
14 2 (0.68%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (20.14%) QA
2 41 (13.99%) PCI DSS
3 39 (13.31%) GDPR
3 39 (13.31%) NCSC
4 15 (5.12%) Accessibility
5 7 (2.39%) NIST
6 5 (1.71%) Data Quality
7 4 (1.37%) WCAG
8 3 (1.02%) ISO 9001
9 2 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.34%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.39%) Active Directory
2 6 (2.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (2.39%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.68%) Kibana
3 1 (0.34%) Ansible
3 1 (0.34%) Grafana
3 1 (0.34%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.34%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.34%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 41 (13.99%) Virgin Media
2 17 (5.80%) Oracle
3 9 (3.07%) Microsoft
4 7 (2.39%) Splunk
5 5 (1.71%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.37%) Adobe
6 4 (1.37%) Google
6 4 (1.37%) Qualtrics
6 4 (1.37%) Salesforce
7 3 (1.02%) PTC
7 3 (1.02%) Siemens
7 3 (1.02%) Wind River
8 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.68%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.68%) HP
8 2 (0.68%) OpenLink
8 2 (0.68%) SAP
9 1 (0.34%) Cloudera
9 1 (0.34%) PagerDuty
9 1 (0.34%) Workday