Tester Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Tester
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The median Tester daily rate in Cambridgeshire is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - +1
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 2 0 6
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 0.56% - 1.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% - 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £220 - £369
25th Percentile £250 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.26%
75th Percentile £350 - £522
90th Percentile £380 - £556
East of England median daily rate £400 £381 £450
% change year-on-year +4.92% -15.28% -5.26%

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 307 288 387
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.48% 76.60% 78.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 120 182
10th Percentile £213 £259 £181
25th Percentile £369 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £452 £475
Median % change year-on-year +10.62% -4.84% -
75th Percentile £622 £557 £560
90th Percentile £700 £626 £625
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 37 108
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.49 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.92 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £22.90 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +29.20% +14.32%
75th Percentile £31.00 £28.93 £20.56
90th Percentile £47.15 £60.00 £34.50
East of England median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -36.84% +6.74% +124.63%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Tester job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Cambridgeshire

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 4 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Cambridgeshire

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Cambridgeshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies 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 4 November 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 - 2 £300 - 1
Tester
East of England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire

For the 6 months to 4 November 2025, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cambridgeshire region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Gatling
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) pytest
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) PyTorch

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) Gatling
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) PyTorch
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) scikit-learn
1 1 (50.00%) TensorFlow
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Machine Learning
2 1 (50.00%) Model Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA