Tester Contracts in Croydon

Tester
South London > Croydon

The median Tester daily rate in Croydon is £380, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 33 36
Rank change year-on-year +8 +3 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.20% 0.69% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.25% 0.70% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £380 £425
Median % change year-on-year - -10.59% +21.43%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
South London median daily rate £380 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -11.11% +6.81% +14.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Croydon

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 89 143 154
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.80% 98.62% 87.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 88 123
10th Percentile £380 £360 £430
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -1.82%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £663 £630 £679
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £525
% change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £27.61 £23.50 £22.98
% change year-on-year +17.47% +2.26% -51.55%

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 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 1 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 Croydon region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Kibana
2 1 (50.00%) PuTTY
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript

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 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) API Development
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana