Tester Contracts in Cambridge

Tester
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The median Tester daily rate in Cambridge is £200, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +7
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 1 0 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridge 0.82% - 2.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% - 2.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £378
25th Percentile - - £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £200 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -5.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridge

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridge. 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 Cambridge with a recognized job title 105 179 263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.07% 91.79% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 105 182
10th Percentile £319 £229 £185
25th Percentile £424 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £578 £550 £558
90th Percentile £686 £645 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £488 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +8.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 28 14
10th Percentile £16.40 £20.40 £16.09
25th Percentile £28.35 £25.00 £17.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 £52.50 £19.11
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +174.73% -66.47%
75th Percentile £63.75 £66.25 £53.44
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £53.75
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
% change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% +13.47%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Cambridge

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Cambridge

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Cambridge

Tester Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, 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 Cambridge region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (100.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript