Developer in Test Contracts in London

Developer in Test
England > London

The median Developer in Test daily rate in London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 462 542
Rank change year-on-year +66 +80 -93
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 4 26 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.023% 0.099% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.10% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 56
10th Percentile £323 £555 £345
25th Percentile £356 £580 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £695 £478
Median % change year-on-year -38.85% +45.32% -4.35%
75th Percentile £599 £699 £565
90th Percentile £696 £738 £623
England median daily rate £463 £675 £475
% change year-on-year -31.48% +42.11% +2.70%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +56.72%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,495 25,012 36,533
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.29% 95.24% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,929 18,143 26,715
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £445 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £683 £700 £684
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 328 281 442
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.75 £22.68
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £45.18 £62.68 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.01 £80.00 £68.06
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in London

Developer in Test
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Test in London

Developer in Test
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Test in London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Test in London

Developer in Test
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South London - 1 £300 -
Developer in Test
England

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

For the 6 months to 9 May 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 London region featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) SDET
2 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
3 1 (25.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management

Developer in Test Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket Server
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) JUnit
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Back Office
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) SDET
1 3 (75.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) B2C
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
2 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft