Test Assurance Contracts in London

Test Assurance
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 384 483 583
Rank change year-on-year +99 +100 -142
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 10 18 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.067% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.073% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 15
10th Percentile £281 £413 £346
25th Percentile £306 £441 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.91% +22.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £451 £607 £575
90th Percentile £499 £660 £653
England median daily rate £435 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -20.91% +15.79% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Test Assurance 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 15,676 24,638 35,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.11% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,227 17,712 26,145
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
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 £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 423
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.77%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £50.88
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in London

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in London

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance in London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in London

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in London

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance within the London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Central London +39 3 - -
South London - 3 £288 -
East London - 1 £435 -
Test Assurance
England

Test Assurance
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 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (10.00%) GitHub
2 1 (10.00%) Miro
2 1 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
1 1 (10.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
1 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (20.00%) Appium
3 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 2 (20.00%) Postman
3 2 (20.00%) Rational Performance Tester
3 2 (20.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (10.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (10.00%) JMeter
4 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (30.00%) Public Sector
4 2 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Back Office
5 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (40.00%) Senior
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (30.00%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) IT Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Junior
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Junior Test Analyst
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Lead
6 1 (10.00%) QA Leader
6 1 (10.00%) QA Tester
6 1 (10.00%) Security Test Manager
6 1 (10.00%) Senior Tester
6 1 (10.00%) Strategy Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
6 1 (10.00%) Test Manager
6 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy Analyst
6 1 (10.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) Playwright
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
1 3 (30.00%) Unix
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) SDLC
2 6 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 4 (40.00%) Test Management
4 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (20.00%) Agile Testing
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (20.00%) DevOps
5 2 (20.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) C++
3 1 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) ISEB
4 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft