Applications Tester Contracts

Application Tester
UK

The median Application Tester daily rate in the UK is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 10 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
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 683 831
Rank change year-on-year +112 +148 -150
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Tester 11 20 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.026% 0.035% 0.009%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.037% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 16 6
10th Percentile £180 £216 £282
25th Percentile £203 £280 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £375 £325
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +15.38% -27.78%
75th Percentile £438 £432 £445
90th Percentile £503 £569 £484
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £248 £300
% change year-on-year +142.42% -17.50% -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,888 54,783 83,316
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.63% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,953 38,247 58,493
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,674 1,534 2,048
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.34 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -17.02% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Applications Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Applications Tester in the UK

Applications Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Applications Tester in the UK

Applications Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Applications Tester over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Applications Tester in the UK

Applications Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Applications Tester in the UK

Applications Tester
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +89 10 £400 +6.67% 3
London +94 7 £306 -23.44% 1
Work from Home +114 3 £500 +29.03% 2
UK excluding London +52 3 £600 +142.42% 1
South West - 2 £600 - 1
South East +15 1 - -

Applications Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 10 May 2024, Applications 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 featuring Applications Tester in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) Application Packaging
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
2 3 (27.27%) Android
2 3 (27.27%) Agile
2 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
2 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Red Team
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) CREST Certified
3 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
3 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) C#
3 2 (18.18%) .NET
3 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) OSCP
4 1 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) Mobile Application Development
4 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
4 1 (9.09%) Android Studio
4 1 (9.09%) DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Test Planning

Applications Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) ENOVIA
1 1 (9.09%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Google Pay
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Android Studio
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
2 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
2 1 (9.09%) Xcode
General
1 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Back Office
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Billing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) HTML
2 1 (9.09%) JSON
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Cyberattack
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Android
2 2 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Agile
1 3 (27.27%) Application Packaging
1 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
1 3 (27.27%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
1 3 (27.27%) Test Automation
2 2 (18.18%) Preventative Maintenance
2 2 (18.18%) Red Team
3 1 (9.09%) Coaching
3 1 (9.09%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
3 1 (9.09%) DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (9.09%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (9.09%) Offensive Security
3 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (9.09%) SDLC
3 1 (9.09%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Test Planning
3 1 (9.09%) Threat Detection
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
2 1 (9.09%) Kotlin
2 1 (9.09%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) VB
2 1 (9.09%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) CREST Certified
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
1 2 (18.18%) OSCP
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) PTC
1 1 (9.09%) Siemens