Test Leader Contracts in the North of England

Test Lead
England > North of England

The median Test Lead daily rate in the North of England is £456 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 184 174 219
Rank change year-on-year -10 +45 -53
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 4 39 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.086% 0.68% 0.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.092% 0.72% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 28 23
10th Percentile £411 £393 £355
25th Percentile £417 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £488 £427
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% +14.17% -3.77%
75th Percentile £517 £606 £500
90th Percentile £537 £743 £574
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,340 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,710 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £383 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 396 155 280
10th Percentile £11.04 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £61.64 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the North of England

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in the North of England

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in the North of England

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the North of England region over the 6 months to 7 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
Yorkshire +8 2 - -
North West +6 1 £413 +3.13%
Test Leader
England

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Test Leader 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 North of England region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) QA
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
1 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) JMeter
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) CRM
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce