Test Assurance Contract Job Trends in Central London

Test Assurance
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Test Assurance skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 124 161
Rank change year-on-year -7 +37 +42
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.052% 0.17% 0.031%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.055% 0.19% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £568 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% - -
London median daily rate £613 £430 £450
% change year-on-year +42.44% -4.44% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

Test Assurance 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 1,807 2,110 2,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.72% 91.94% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,207 1,361 2,003
10th Percentile £318 £363 £357
25th Percentile £421 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
London median daily rate £540 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 28 18
10th Percentile £18.69 £17.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.00 £24.83 £16.71
Median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.63 £45.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £119.65 £57.73
London median hourly rate £31.49 £35.00 £37.34
% change year-on-year -10.03% -6.27% +5.18%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in Central London

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Test Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Test Assurance

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance within the Central London region over the 6 months to 23 September 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 -3 1 £613 +7.93% 1
Test Assurance
London

Test Assurance
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Hamcrest
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OOP
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk