Tester Contracts in the City of London

Tester
Central London > City of London

The median Tester daily rate in the City of London is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 107 152
Rank change year-on-year 0 +45 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 12 19 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.68% 0.86% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.73% 0.91% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 15
10th Percentile £429 £369 £325
25th Percentile £431 £419 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -28.70% +28.57% +11.70%
75th Percentile £647 £688 £581
90th Percentile £675 £741 £600
Central London median daily rate £481 £675 £525
% change year-on-year -28.70% +28.57% +11.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 1,634 2,090 3,462
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.00% 95.13% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,025 1,486 2,357
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% -6.25% +6.19%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £820
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £585
% change year-on-year +4.55% -5.98% +4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 15 22
10th Percentile £22.00 £15.62 £15.50
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £18.50
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -34.29% -6.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £27.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £92.75 £40.00 £87.97
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% -28.57% -6.04%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the City of London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the City of London

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) CRM
3 4 (33.33%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (25.00%) Billing
4 3 (25.00%) QA
4 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (25.00%) SDLC
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (16.67%) Workday
5 2 (16.67%) API Testing
5 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
5 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
5 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio Team System
5 2 (16.67%) Test Management
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Azure
5 2 (16.67%) Finance
5 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management

Tester Skill Set
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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (8.33%) Murex MxG2000
2 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft Financials
2 1 (8.33%) SAP CRM
2 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio Team System
2 1 (8.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (8.33%) Gatling
2 1 (8.33%) GitLab
2 1 (8.33%) Hamcrest
2 1 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 1 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (8.33%) JUnit
2 1 (8.33%) Postman
2 1 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Billing
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) General Ledger
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
2 1 (8.33%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (8.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Integration Testing
1 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Agile
2 4 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (25.00%) DevOps
3 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) SDLC
3 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) API Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Information Security
4 2 (16.67%) QA Automation
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Test Management
4 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Validation
5 1 (8.33%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Python
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) ABAP
2 1 (8.33%) Bash
2 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (8.33%) CEH
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) OSCP
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) SEPA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Murex
2 2 (16.67%) Workday
3 1 (8.33%) PeopleSoft
3 1 (8.33%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Splunk
8 Tester jobs in Central London