Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £419 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 286 246 239
Rank change year-on-year -40 -7 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 99 226 310
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.48% 0.96% 1.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 1.02% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 162 230
10th Percentile £205 £285 £285
25th Percentile £347 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £419 £425 £408
Median % change year-on-year -1.47% +4.17% +2.00%
75th Percentile £506 £508 £500
90th Percentile £600 £573 £539
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 12
10th Percentile - - £10.10
25th Percentile £10.24 £52.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £10.30 £54.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -80.93% +195.89% -42.06%
75th Percentile £10.36 £56.00 £27.93
90th Percentile - - £47.40
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -58.13% +300.00% -60.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,985 22,167 29,345
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,554 15,534 20,562
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £399 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,259 1,145 1,448
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.03 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.55 £65.00 £42.57
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England -15 37 £475 +11.76% 19
South East -22 27 £425 +1.19% 17
Yorkshire +21 22 £475 +5.56% 9
Midlands +19 13 £350 -17.65% 10
South West +9 12 £541 +20.28% 12
North West 0 12 £400 +17.65% 9
East Midlands +17 9 £365 -3.95% 5
Scotland +25 6 £375 -14.58% 7
West Midlands +15 4 £203 -59.50% 5
North East 0 3 £600 +29.03% 1
Northern Ireland +8 2 - - 2
East of England -10 1 - - 7
Wales - 1 £509 - 3
Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 UK excluding London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 59 (59.60%) Test Automation
2 32 (32.32%) Agile
3 29 (29.29%) Selenium
4 22 (22.22%) Java
5 20 (20.20%) QA
6 19 (19.19%) Test Scripting
6 19 (19.19%) JavaScript
7 18 (18.18%) Python
7 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
8 17 (17.17%) C#
8 17 (17.17%) Azure
8 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
9 15 (15.15%) Functional Testing
9 15 (15.15%) Software Testing
10 14 (14.14%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (14.14%) SQL
10 14 (14.14%) Scenario Testing
11 13 (13.13%) Manual Testing
11 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
12 12 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
12 12 (12.12%) Scrum
12 12 (12.12%) DevOps
13 11 (11.11%) JMeter
14 10 (10.10%) Regression Testing
15 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
15 9 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (9.09%) Test Strategy
16 8 (8.08%) OSCP
16 8 (8.08%) Mobile App
16 8 (8.08%) CREST Certified

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 3 (3.03%) Apache
2 2 (2.02%) Apache Spark
2 2 (2.02%) Confluence
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (17.17%) Azure
2 9 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.07%) AWS
4 5 (5.05%) GitHub
5 4 (4.04%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.02%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.02%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon EMR
7 1 (1.01%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.01%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.01%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.01%) Figma
7 1 (1.01%) GCP
7 1 (1.01%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.01%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.01%) Serverless
7 1 (1.01%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.05%) Wireless
2 2 (2.02%) Firewall
3 1 (1.01%) BGP
3 1 (1.01%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (1.01%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (1.01%) GGSN
3 1 (1.01%) IPsec
3 1 (1.01%) MPLS
3 1 (1.01%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (1.01%) SGSN
3 1 (1.01%) SMS
3 1 (1.01%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.02%) Big Data
2 2 (2.02%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.02%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.01%) Apache Hive
3 1 (1.01%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.01%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.01%) Metadata
3 1 (1.01%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.01%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.01%) Power BI
3 1 (1.01%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 29 (29.29%) Selenium
2 11 (11.11%) JMeter
3 8 (8.08%) JIRA
3 8 (8.08%) Postman
4 6 (6.06%) Cucumber
4 6 (6.06%) WebDriver
5 5 (5.05%) Jenkins
6 4 (4.04%) Cypress.io
6 4 (4.04%) JUnit
6 4 (4.04%) SoapUI
7 3 (3.03%) Git
7 3 (3.03%) NUnit
7 3 (3.03%) SpecFlow
7 3 (3.03%) Visual Studio
7 3 (3.03%) Zephyr
8 2 (2.02%) Appium
8 2 (2.02%) GitLab
8 2 (2.02%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.02%) TestComplete
8 2 (2.02%) TestRail
General
1 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 8 (8.08%) Telecoms
3 7 (7.07%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.06%) Manufacturing
5 5 (5.05%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.05%) Finance
6 4 (4.04%) Legal
6 4 (4.04%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.02%) Banking
8 1 (1.01%) Electronics
8 1 (1.01%) Games
8 1 (1.01%) German Language
8 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.01%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.07%) JSON
1 7 (7.07%) REST
2 6 (6.06%) XML
3 5 (5.05%) .NET
3 5 (5.05%) Playwright
4 4 (4.04%) Gherkin
4 4 (4.04%) Web Services
5 3 (3.03%) SOAP
6 2 (2.02%) HTML
6 2 (2.02%) RESTful
7 1 (1.01%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.01%) CSS
7 1 (1.01%) LDAP
7 1 (1.01%) NETCONF
7 1 (1.01%) OAuth
7 1 (1.01%) OpenID
7 1 (1.01%) RESTCONF
7 1 (1.01%) Spring
7 1 (1.01%) Vitest
7 1 (1.01%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.08%) Mobile App
2 6 (6.06%) Product Ownership
3 5 (5.05%) Operational Technology
4 2 (2.02%) PKI
4 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.01%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.01%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.01%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.01%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.01%) e-Learning
5 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.08%) Linux
2 5 (5.05%) Windows
3 3 (3.03%) Android
3 3 (3.03%) Unix
4 2 (2.02%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.01%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (59.60%) Test Automation
2 32 (32.32%) Agile
3 19 (19.19%) Test Scripting
4 15 (15.15%) Functional Testing
4 15 (15.15%) Software Testing
5 14 (14.14%) Scenario Testing
5 14 (14.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (13.13%) CI/CD
6 13 (13.13%) Manual Testing
7 12 (12.12%) DevOps
7 12 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (12.12%) Scrum
8 10 (10.10%) Regression Testing
9 9 (9.09%) Test Strategy
10 8 (8.08%) Acceptance Criteria
10 8 (8.08%) End-to-End Testing
10 8 (8.08%) Penetration Testing
10 8 (8.08%) Performance Testing
10 8 (8.08%) Red Team
11 7 (7.07%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (22.22%) Java
2 19 (19.19%) JavaScript
3 18 (18.18%) Python
4 17 (17.17%) C#
5 14 (14.14%) SQL
6 8 (8.08%) C++
7 5 (5.05%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.02%) C
8 2 (2.02%) Delphi
8 2 (2.02%) Scala
8 2 (2.02%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.02%) VBScript
9 1 (1.01%) Bash
9 1 (1.01%) Perl
9 1 (1.01%) Ruby
9 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (17.17%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.09%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) CREST Certified
3 8 (8.08%) OSCP
4 5 (5.05%) CEH
4 5 (5.05%) GIAC
4 5 (5.05%) GPEN
5 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.01%) CCNA
6 1 (1.01%) CCNP
6 1 (1.01%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.01%) Degree
6 1 (1.01%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.01%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (20.20%) QA
2 6 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.05%) Accessibility
3 5 (5.05%) NIST
4 2 (2.02%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (2.02%) WCAG
5 1 (1.01%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (7.07%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.02%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.02%) Kibana
3 1 (1.01%) Ansible
3 1 (1.01%) Grafana
3 1 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (6.06%) ServiceNow
2 4 (4.04%) Oracle
3 3 (3.03%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.01%) Cloudera
4 1 (1.01%) Databricks
4 1 (1.01%) Google
4 1 (1.01%) Salesforce