Exploratory Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Exploratory Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 121 116
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 +45
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 3 2 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.13% 0.11% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.11% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £430 £413 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £425 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% -22.73% -4.35%
75th Percentile £480 £438 £575
90th Percentile £484 - £576
Central London median daily rate £456 £425 £550
% change year-on-year +7.35% -22.73% -4.35%

All Process & 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 2,050 1,746 1,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.61% 94.28% 91.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 1,142 1,266
10th Percentile £376 £325 £379
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £765 £789
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 16
10th Percentile - £17.62 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £24.21 £19.79
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.15 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -30.73% +5.73% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £50.25 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.65 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -15.22% +8.55% -23.49%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Exploratory Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Exploratory Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) JUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Mockito
2 1 (33.33%) MonkeyTalk
2 1 (33.33%) Selendroid
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 1 (33.33%) XCUITest
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer in Test
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Software Developer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) Android SDK
2 1 (33.33%) AssertJ
2 1 (33.33%) CSS
2 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) iOS SDK
2 1 (33.33%) JSON
2 1 (33.33%) Kafka
2 1 (33.33%) React
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Android
1 1 (33.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Pair Programming
3 1 (33.33%) Refactoring
3 1 (33.33%) Runbook
3 1 (33.33%) SBOM
3 1 (33.33%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Korn
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Accessibility
1 2 (66.67%) QA