Smoke Testing Contracts in Central London

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Smoke Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smoke Testing over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 133 166
Rank change year-on-year +1 +33 +40
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.097% 0.044% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.048% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 £519 £633
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £635
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% -15.35% +12.89%
75th Percentile £438 £556 £638
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £446 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +11.50% -27.27% +29.41%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Smoke Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,937 2,089 3,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.71% 91.38% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,273 1,443 2,211
10th Percentile £326 £375 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.58%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £790 £825
London median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 19 19
10th Percentile £22.15 £18.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.25 £15.93
Median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -17.65%
75th Percentile £50.75 £70.00 £47.41
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £56.75
London median hourly rate £29.50 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -15.71% -13.58% +14.08%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Smoke Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in Central London

Smoke Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Smoke Testing in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Smoke Testing in Central London

Smoke Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Smoke Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
City of London 0 2 £425 -20.93% 1
Smoke Testing
London

Smoke Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java