Smoke Testing Contracts in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 128 128 160
Rank change year-on-year 0 +32 +27
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.11% 0.049% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.053% 0.033%
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 - - -
Central London median daily rate £425 £538 £635
% change year-on-year -20.93% -15.35% +12.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,774 1,881 3,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.01% 91.40% 90.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,279 2,048
10th Percentile £331 £375 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 16 16
10th Percentile £17.57 £17.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.43 £15.00
Median hourly rate £29.75 £27.00 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% -13.60% -27.73%
75th Percentile £54.75 £82.19 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £61.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.81% -22.86% -17.65%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in the City of London

Smoke Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Smoke Testing in the City of London

Smoke 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:

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