Test Assurance Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Test Assurance
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of 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 123 120 154
Rank change year-on-year -3 +34 +48
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 1 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.058% 0.19% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.21% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £568 -
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% - -
Central London median daily rate £613 £568 -
% change year-on-year +7.93% - -

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,635 1,907 2,690
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.13% 91.90% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,085 1,205 1,862
10th Percentile £323 £371 £363
25th Percentile £420 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £764 £789 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £590
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.54% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 17
10th Percentile £17.08 £15.40 £14.25
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.88 £16.61
Median hourly rate £28.15 £32.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.05% +19.09% -34.52%
75th Percentile £56.75 £107.13 £46.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £59.30
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £35.00 £26.75
% change year-on-year -19.07% +30.84% -35.54%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the City of London

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Assurance

Test Assurance
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 (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