Exploratory Testing Contracts in London

Exploratory Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 369 457 538
Rank change year-on-year +88 +81 -101
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 13 26 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.073% 0.099% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 23 51
10th Percentile £363 £328 £313
25th Percentile £411 £379 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £400
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +37.50% -13.51%
75th Percentile £522 £658 £475
90th Percentile £588 £675 £488
England median daily rate £444 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -11.17% +17.65% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.88
25th Percentile - - £32.19
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £57.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 - £41.25
% change year-on-year - - +37.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Exploratory Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,694 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.70% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,256 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 270 421
10th Percentile £15.97 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
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 Exploratory Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 8 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
Central London +43 2 £435 -27.50%
South London +10 2 £493 +51.54% 1
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Functions
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (7.69%) GCP
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (7.69%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.69%) Parquet
2 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 4 (30.77%) WebDriver
3 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 3 (23.08%) JIRA
3 3 (23.08%) JUnit
3 3 (23.08%) Postman
3 3 (23.08%) TestNG
4 2 (15.38%) Gerrit
4 2 (15.38%) Git
4 2 (15.38%) REST Assured
4 2 (15.38%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (15.38%) SoapUI
5 1 (7.69%) Appium
5 1 (7.69%) Fiddler
5 1 (7.69%) GitLab
5 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
5 1 (7.69%) Protractor
5 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
5 1 (7.69%) Visual Studio Code
5 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Analyst
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Business Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Manual Tester
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Test Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) IT Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Lead
3 1 (7.69%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) QA Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) ADO
2 1 (7.69%) CSS
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) HTML
2 1 (7.69%) JSON
2 1 (7.69%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 1 (7.69%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
2 8 (61.54%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (38.46%) BDD
3 5 (38.46%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Open Source
4 4 (30.77%) CI/CD
4 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Analytics
5 3 (23.08%) DevOps
5 3 (23.08%) Kanban
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Microservices
5 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
5 3 (23.08%) User Stories
6 2 (15.38%) Functional Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) Java
2 3 (23.08%) Python
2 3 (23.08%) SQL
3 2 (15.38%) Ruby
3 2 (15.38%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.69%) C#
4 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.69%) Perl
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
1 3 (23.08%) SC Cleared
1 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (38.46%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
2 1 (7.69%) Kibana
2 1 (7.69%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) HP
2 1 (7.69%) Dynatrace
2 1 (7.69%) IBM
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) PagerDuty
2 1 (7.69%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Spotify