Test Leader Contracts in Bristol

Test Lead
South West > Bristol

The median Test Lead daily rate in Bristol is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 70 99
Rank change year-on-year +16 +29 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 4 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.19% 0.38% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.40% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £466
25th Percentile £563 - £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -8.02%
75th Percentile £588 - £497
90th Percentile - - £499
South West median daily rate £575 £375 £500
% change year-on-year +53.33% -25.00% +5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. 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 Bristol with a recognized job title 512 1,004 1,131
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.34% 94.99% 90.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 541 805
10th Percentile £213 £250 £300
25th Percentile £355 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -1.96% +2.00%
75th Percentile £564 £613 £630
90th Percentile £650 £688 £713
South West median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 218 142
10th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £30.97
25th Percentile £43.75 £45.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year - -0.76% +55.95%
75th Percentile £68.00 £73.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £86.23
South West median hourly rate £63.50 £55.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +15.45% -15.38% +38.30%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in Bristol

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in Bristol

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 17 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 Bristol region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Server Migrations

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) Server Migrations
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation