Tester Contracts in Wiltshire

Tester
South West > Wiltshire

The median Tester daily rate in Wiltshire is £566 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 82 84 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -20 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 8 10 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.85% 0.91% 1.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.97% 1.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 9
10th Percentile £525 £404 £423
25th Percentile £537 £422 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £566 £450 £485
Median % change year-on-year +25.83% -7.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £587 £478 £510
90th Percentile £595 £548 £515
South West median daily rate £533 £450 £485
% change year-on-year +18.33% -7.22% +10.54%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Wiltshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire. 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 Wiltshire with a recognized job title 861 1,032 860
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.11% 94.07% 95.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 643 859 623
10th Percentile £263 £350 £290
25th Percentile £459 £459 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year - +5.77% +9.47%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £619
90th Percentile £725 £723 £675
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +9.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 23
10th Percentile - £40.63 £15.00
25th Percentile £14.25 £61.13 £25.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.83% +19.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile - £83.75 £69.81
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £46.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +41.30% +8.24%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Wiltshire

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Wiltshire

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Wiltshire

Tester
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Chippenham - 4 - -
Swindon +12 3 £600 +39.53%
Corsham -13 1 £533 +25.29%
Tester
South West

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Wiltshire region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (37.50%) Red Team
2 3 (37.50%) CREST Certified
2 3 (37.50%) OSCP
3 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
3 2 (25.00%) Python
3 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
3 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) PySpark
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
4 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
4 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
4 1 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Databricks
4 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Research
4 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 1 (12.50%) Metadata
4 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 1 (12.50%) Application Security
4 1 (12.50%) Offensive Security
4 1 (12.50%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Hive
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) Data Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Delta Lake
1 1 (12.50%) Hadoop
1 1 (12.50%) Metadata
1 1 (12.50%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (12.50%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (12.50%) Cyberattack
2 1 (12.50%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Red Team
2 2 (25.00%) Agile
2 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (12.50%) Application Security
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) Data Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Data Ingestion
3 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Mentoring
3 1 (12.50%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (12.50%) Offensive Security
3 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
3 1 (12.50%) Threat Detection
3 1 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (12.50%) C
2 1 (12.50%) C++
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Perl
2 1 (12.50%) Ruby
2 1 (12.50%) Shell Script
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CREST Certified
1 3 (37.50%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) PCI DSS
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cloudera
1 1 (12.50%) Databricks