Tester Contracts in Hampshire

Tester
South East > Hampshire

The median Tester daily rate in Hampshire is £210 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 79 97 89
Rank change year-on-year +18 -8 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 18 8 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 1.13% 0.55% 2.09%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.26% 0.59% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 33
10th Percentile - - £338
25th Percentile £205 £410 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £420 £450
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -6.67% +4.65%
75th Percentile £215 £456 £505
90th Percentile £344 £545 £559
South East median daily rate £413 £420 £433
% change year-on-year -1.79% -2.89% +16.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £16.45
25th Percentile - - £16.75
Median hourly rate - - £18.50
75th Percentile - - £19.75
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £10.30 - £18.50
% change year-on-year - - +18.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hampshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Hampshire. 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 Hampshire with a recognized job title 1,426 1,359 2,029
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 93.72% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 809 882 1,218
10th Percentile £361 £230 £250
25th Percentile £450 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% +5.00% +11.06%
75th Percentile £675 £619 £600
90th Percentile £738 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 108 164
10th Percentile £13.25 £18.25 £13.50
25th Percentile £35.00 £21.76 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £52.25 £22.25
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +134.83% -21.31%
75th Percentile £62.50 £67.50 £45.28
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.62
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +128.95% -13.40%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Hampshire over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Hampshire

Tester
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Hampshire 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
Basingstoke -4 11 - -
Romsey - 6 £210 -
Winchester - 1 £525 -
Tester
South East

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 Hampshire region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 10 (55.56%) Web Services
3 9 (50.00%) Broadband
3 9 (50.00%) Law
3 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (50.00%) GIAC
3 9 (50.00%) OWASP
3 9 (50.00%) PCI DSS
3 9 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
3 9 (50.00%) Security Testing
3 9 (50.00%) SaaS
3 9 (50.00%) PaaS
3 9 (50.00%) GPEN
3 9 (50.00%) OSCP
3 9 (50.00%) IaaS
3 9 (50.00%) Mobile App
3 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
3 9 (50.00%) CREST Certified
3 9 (50.00%) SANS
3 9 (50.00%) Virgin Media
3 9 (50.00%) 5G
3 9 (50.00%) GDPR
3 9 (50.00%) NCSC
3 9 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 9 (50.00%) Application Security
4 6 (33.33%) Process Improvement
4 6 (33.33%) Manufacturing
5 2 (11.11%) Firewall
5 2 (11.11%) Active Directory

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 9 (50.00%) IaaS
1 9 (50.00%) PaaS
1 9 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) 5G
1 9 (50.00%) Broadband
2 2 (11.11%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (5.56%) JIRA
1 1 (5.56%) JMeter
1 1 (5.56%) SoapUI
1 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (50.00%) Law
1 9 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
2 6 (33.33%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (55.56%) Web Services
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) Application Security
1 9 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 9 (50.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
1 9 (50.00%) OWASP
1 9 (50.00%) Penetration Testing
1 9 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (11.11%) Cryptography
3 2 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Scrum
3 2 (11.11%) SIEM
3 2 (11.11%) Test Management
4 1 (5.56%) Agile
4 1 (5.56%) Biometrics
4 1 (5.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (5.56%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 12 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 9 (50.00%) CREST Certified
2 9 (50.00%) GIAC
2 9 (50.00%) GPEN
2 9 (50.00%) OSCP
2 9 (50.00%) SANS
3 1 (5.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (50.00%) GDPR
1 9 (50.00%) NCSC
1 9 (50.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (50.00%) Virgin Media