Test Practitioner Contracts in the South East

Testing Practitioner
England > South East

The median Testing Practitioner daily rate in the South East is £438 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 191 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Practitioner 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.018% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £431 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 - -
75th Percentile £444 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £438 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,080 5,391 7,307
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 94.76% 95.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,059 3,768 4,947
10th Percentile £213 £224 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £491
Median % change year-on-year - +1.94% +9.00%
75th Percentile £619 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 482 239 321
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.45 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.44 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -17.13%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.95
90th Percentile £77.45 £75.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.55
% change year-on-year -17.38% +99.60% +2.48%

Test Practitioner
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings that featured Test Practitioner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Test Practitioner in the South East

Test Practitioner
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Practitioner within the South East 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
Hampshire - 1 £438 -
Test Practitioner
England

Test Practitioner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Test Practitioner 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 South East region featuring Test Practitioner in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing

Test Practitioner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (100.00%) IIS
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle APEX
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware