Tester Contracts in London

Tester
England > London

The median Tester daily rate in London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 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
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 258 323
Rank change year-on-year +10 +65 -51
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 149 266 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.84% 0.98% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 1.03% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 201 236
10th Percentile £337 £330 £313
25th Percentile £381 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £452
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +19.05% +6.24%
75th Percentile £625 £666 £550
90th Percentile £688 £750 £625
England median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 9
10th Percentile - - £14.94
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £90.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +260.00% -
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - £65.50
England median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +289.19% -60.00%

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 16,505 25,769 37,084
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.17% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,930 18,667 27,033
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 289 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.50 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.05 £67.50
England median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.38% +100.00% +0.29%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Tester in London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in London

Tester
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 Tester 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 +38 20 £675 +28.57% 2
West London +15 2 £363 -27.50% 1
South London +12 2 £428 +6.81% 2
East London -3 2 £340 -15.00% 3
North London - 1 £385 -
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 90 (60.40%) Test Automation
2 52 (34.90%) Agile
3 40 (26.85%) QA
4 33 (22.15%) Java
4 33 (22.15%) Python
5 31 (20.81%) Software Testing
5 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
6 29 (19.46%) Banking
7 27 (18.12%) C#
8 26 (17.45%) Scenario Testing
9 25 (16.78%) SQL
9 25 (16.78%) JIRA
10 24 (16.11%) Security Cleared
11 23 (15.44%) Azure
11 23 (15.44%) BDD
12 22 (14.77%) DevOps
12 22 (14.77%) Scrum
13 21 (14.09%) Manual Testing
14 20 (13.42%) Selenium
14 20 (13.42%) Cucumber
14 20 (13.42%) Test Strategy
15 19 (12.75%) Performance Testing
15 19 (12.75%) AWS
15 19 (12.75%) CI/CD
16 18 (12.08%) Test Management
16 18 (12.08%) Regression Testing
17 17 (11.41%) Finance
17 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
17 17 (11.41%) End-to-End Testing
18 16 (10.74%) Public Sector

Tester 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (4.70%) Confluence
2 2 (1.34%) Apache
2 2 (1.34%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.34%) CMS
2 2 (1.34%) IIS
2 2 (1.34%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.01%) Windchill
2 2 (1.34%) Mingle
3 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.36%) Endur
2 3 (2.01%) ENOVIA
2 3 (2.01%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.44%) Azure
2 19 (12.75%) AWS
3 11 (7.38%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (3.36%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.68%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (2.68%) BrowserStack
5 4 (2.68%) Firebase
5 4 (2.68%) Serverless
6 3 (2.01%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (2.01%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (2.01%) GCP
6 3 (2.01%) GitHub
7 2 (1.34%) PowerApps
7 2 (1.34%) SaaS
7 2 (1.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (1.34%) Sentry
8 1 (0.67%) Azure Functions
8 1 (0.67%) Figma
8 1 (0.67%) Google Pay
8 1 (0.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.68%) Internet
2 3 (2.01%) Wireless
3 2 (1.34%) BGP
3 2 (1.34%) Ethernet VPN
3 2 (1.34%) HTTP
3 2 (1.34%) MPLS
3 2 (1.34%) VPN
4 1 (0.67%) Network Security
4 1 (0.67%) PuTTY
4 1 (0.67%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (6.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.68%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.01%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.01%) Oracle Database
3 3 (2.01%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.01%) Power BI
4 2 (1.34%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.67%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.67%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.67%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.67%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 25 (16.78%) JIRA
2 20 (13.42%) Cucumber
2 20 (13.42%) Selenium
3 15 (10.07%) SpecFlow
4 13 (8.72%) Cypress.io
4 13 (8.72%) Jenkins
5 11 (7.38%) JMeter
5 11 (7.38%) Postman
6 10 (6.71%) Git
7 7 (4.70%) Appium
7 7 (4.70%) TestRail
8 6 (4.03%) FitNesse
8 6 (4.03%) GitLab
8 6 (4.03%) REST Assured
8 6 (4.03%) WebDriver
9 5 (3.36%) JUnit
9 5 (3.36%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.36%) SoapUI
10 4 (2.68%) TestComplete
10 4 (2.68%) TestNG
General
1 31 (20.81%) Social Skills
2 29 (19.46%) Banking
3 17 (11.41%) Finance
4 16 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.74%) Public Sector
5 13 (8.72%) Back Office
6 12 (8.05%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.71%) Front Office
8 7 (4.70%) Prime Brokerage
9 5 (3.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.36%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.34%) Retail
11 1 (0.67%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.67%) Billing
11 1 (0.67%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.05%) ADO
2 10 (6.71%) REST
3 8 (5.37%) .NET
4 7 (4.70%) Gherkin
5 5 (3.36%) .NET Framework
5 5 (3.36%) Playwright
6 4 (2.68%) AngularJS
6 4 (2.68%) JSON
6 4 (2.68%) Web Services
6 4 (2.68%) WebdriverIO
6 4 (2.68%) XML
7 3 (2.01%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (2.01%) Middleware
7 3 (2.01%) pytest
8 2 (1.34%) GraphQL
8 2 (1.34%) HTML
8 2 (1.34%) Jest
8 2 (1.34%) NETCONF
8 2 (1.34%) React
8 2 (1.34%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.04%) Mobile App
2 8 (5.37%) Equities
3 5 (3.36%) Data Protection Act
3 5 (3.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (2.68%) Greenfield Project
4 4 (2.68%) Hedge funds
5 3 (2.01%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.01%) Virtual Team
6 2 (1.34%) Cloud Native
6 2 (1.34%) Derivative
6 2 (1.34%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.67%) Algorithms
7 1 (0.67%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.67%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.67%) NHS
7 1 (0.67%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.67%) Replication
7 1 (0.67%) Robotics
7 1 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.67%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (4.03%) Windows
2 4 (2.68%) Unix
3 3 (2.01%) Linux
4 2 (1.34%) Android
4 2 (1.34%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (60.40%) Test Automation
2 52 (34.90%) Agile
3 31 (20.81%) Software Testing
4 26 (17.45%) Scenario Testing
5 23 (15.44%) BDD
6 22 (14.77%) DevOps
6 22 (14.77%) Scrum
7 21 (14.09%) Manual Testing
8 20 (13.42%) Test Strategy
9 19 (12.75%) CI/CD
9 19 (12.75%) Performance Testing
10 18 (12.08%) Regression Testing
10 18 (12.08%) Test Management
11 17 (11.41%) End-to-End Testing
11 17 (11.41%) Problem-Solving
12 16 (10.74%) Continuous Integration
12 16 (10.74%) Test Scripting
12 16 (10.74%) User Acceptance Testing
13 15 (10.07%) API Testing
13 15 (10.07%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 33 (22.15%) Java
1 33 (22.15%) Python
2 27 (18.12%) C#
3 25 (16.78%) SQL
4 16 (10.74%) JavaScript
5 9 (6.04%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.34%) C
6 2 (1.34%) C++
6 2 (1.34%) Go
6 2 (1.34%) Kotlin
6 2 (1.34%) Perl
6 2 (1.34%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.34%) Ruby
6 2 (1.34%) Swift
7 1 (0.67%) Bash
7 1 (0.67%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.67%) VB
7 1 (0.67%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (16.11%) Security Cleared
2 16 (10.74%) SC Cleared
3 13 (8.72%) Degree
4 11 (7.38%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.03%) CREST Certified
5 6 (4.03%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (3.36%) OSCP
7 3 (2.01%) CHECK Team Leader
7 3 (2.01%) GIAC
7 3 (2.01%) GPEN
8 2 (1.34%) CEH
8 2 (1.34%) ISEB
8 2 (1.34%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.67%) CCNA
9 1 (0.67%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.67%) CISM
9 1 (0.67%) CISSP
9 1 (0.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (26.85%) QA
2 10 (6.71%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.01%) ISO 9001
4 2 (1.34%) NIST
4 2 (1.34%) WCAG
5 1 (0.67%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.67%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (2.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (2.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.67%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 11 (7.38%) Oracle
2 7 (4.70%) Splunk
3 6 (4.03%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.68%) Adobe
4 4 (2.68%) Google
4 4 (2.68%) Qualtrics
5 3 (2.01%) PTC
5 3 (2.01%) Siemens
6 2 (1.34%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.34%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.34%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.34%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.34%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.67%) Cisco
7 1 (0.67%) HP
7 1 (0.67%) Murex
7 1 (0.67%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.67%) SAP
7 1 (0.67%) Workday