Test Assurance Contract Job Trends in Birmingham

Test Assurance
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Birmingham requiring Test Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 - 67
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 0.13% - 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% - 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £425
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £366 - £425
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
West Midlands median hourly rate - - £55.00

All Process & Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Test Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 680 561 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.18% 89.05% 86.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 420 374 369
10th Percentile £247 £200 £275
25th Percentile £400 £381 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £517 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% +8.74% -1.81%
75th Percentile £588 £645 £588
90th Percentile £644 £738 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 15 26
10th Percentile £13.06 £14.70 £13.69
25th Percentile £15.72 £21.25 £27.75
Median hourly rate £18.44 £30.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -38.55% -36.84% +242.34%
75th Percentile £23.50 £52.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £30.00 £56.45 £69.38
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.44 £21.59 £28.34
% change year-on-year -9.98% -23.80% +63.62%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Test Assurance job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Assurance

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Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Assurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Test Assurance

Test Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SAP ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Workday