Tester Contracts in Croydon

Tester
South London > Croydon

The median Tester daily rate in Croydon is £380 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 33 38 35
Rank change year-on-year +5 -3 -13
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 1 1 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 0.70% 0.56% 1.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 0.65% 1.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £315
25th Percentile - £413 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% +21.43% -17.16%
75th Percentile - £438 £397
90th Percentile - - £410
South London median daily rate £428 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +6.81% +14.36% -17.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Croydon. 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 Croydon with a recognized job title 141 155 156
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 98.60% 87.57% 96.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 125 125
10th Percentile £360 £435 £340
25th Percentile £425 £481 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £639
90th Percentile £630 £683 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £17.00 - -
25th Percentile £18.25 - -
Median hourly rate £23.50 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.23 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £22.98 £47.44
% change year-on-year +2.26% -51.55% +2.20%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Croydon

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Tester in Croydon

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Croydon

Tester Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 Croydon region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) PuTTY
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Test Assurance

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) PuTTY
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA