Test Leader Contracts in Birmingham

Test Lead
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Test Lead daily rate in Birmingham is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 63 64 91
Rank change year-on-year +1 +27 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 5 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.65% 1.45% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.50% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 2
10th Percentile £403 £478 £413
25th Percentile £406 £500 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £513 £546
Median % change year-on-year -17.07% -6.18% +41.88%
75th Percentile £488 £743 £631
90th Percentile £518 - £678
West Midlands median daily rate £425 £513 £468
% change year-on-year -17.07% +9.63% +30.31%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 706 865 1,266
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 96.33% 95.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 495 577 928
10th Percentile £250 £263 £207
25th Percentile £325 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 35 23
10th Percentile £13.10 £11.40 £12.55
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £17.48
Median % change year-on-year +42.50% +14.42% -2.89%
75th Percentile £48.75 £24.94 £18.00
90th Percentile £57.91 £60.50 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in Birmingham

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in Birmingham

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Test Leader 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 Birmingham region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
3 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Test Assurance
3 1 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (20.00%) ERP
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL
3 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) ProC
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Pega
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow