Tester Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Tester
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Tester daily rate in Cambridgeshire 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 41 - 51
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 1 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 0.36% - 1.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% - 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £326
25th Percentile - - £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile - - £475
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £300 - £450

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cambridgeshire. 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 Cambridgeshire with a recognized job title 223 431 478
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 81.39% 85.18% 85.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 161 291
10th Percentile £313 £206 £200
25th Percentile £413 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% - -
75th Percentile £570 £563 £538
90th Percentile £650 £675 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 193 92
10th Percentile £14.84 - £13.29
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.44 £16.30 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.28% +5.16% +13.47%
75th Percentile £19.03 £27.50 £19.04
90th Percentile £44.25 £57.50 £20.75
East of England median hourly rate £45.59 £43.00 £41.81
% change year-on-year +6.02% +2.85% +161.31%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Cambridgeshire

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Cambridgeshire

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Cambridgeshire

Tester
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 20 May 2025. 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
Cambridge - 1 £200 - 1
Tester
East of England

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

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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