Exploratory Testing Contracts in the City of London

Exploratory Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 125 174
Rank change year-on-year +9 +49 +10
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.091% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.10% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - £458
25th Percentile £413 £418 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £435 £588
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% -25.96% +30.56%
75th Percentile £438 £453 £600
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £425 £435 £588
% change year-on-year -2.30% -25.96% +30.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Exploratory 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the City of London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the City of London

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) Hamcrest
2 1 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (33.33%) SonarQube
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) CSS
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) HTML
1 1 (33.33%) JSON
1 1 (33.33%) Kafka
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (33.33%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) BDD
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) SDET
2 2 (66.67%) SOLID
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Don't repeat yourself (DRY)
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) QA Automation
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Splunk