Tester Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Tester
South London > Croydon

The median Tester daily rate in Croydon is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 27 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 5 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 4.81% 1.80% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.95% 1.80% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile £505 £394 -
25th Percentile £513 £414 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 -
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% - -
75th Percentile £545 £504 -
90th Percentile £601 £529 -
South London median daily rate £525 £455 £425
% change year-on-year +15.38% +7.06% +25.93%

All Contract IT Job Roles
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 101 111 171
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.12% 100.00% 98.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 83 114
10th Percentile £263 £380 £231
25th Percentile £492 £463 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.11% -1.88%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £628
90th Percentile £581 £648 £674
South London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate - - £23.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - -
South London median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year +99.12% +44.68% -46.11%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Tester job vacancy trend in Croydon

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Croydon

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Croydon.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Croydon

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Croydon region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) JIRA
3 3 (60.00%) AWS
3 3 (60.00%) Azure
3 3 (60.00%) CREST Certified
3 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (60.00%) NIST
3 3 (60.00%) NIST 800
3 3 (60.00%) OWASP
3 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
3 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (40.00%) CEH
4 2 (40.00%) CHECK Team Leader
4 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
4 2 (40.00%) Docker
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) NCSC
4 2 (40.00%) OSCP
4 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (20.00%) Application Security
5 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (20.00%) Confluence
5 1 (20.00%) Containerisation

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (20.00%) GitLab
General
1 4 (80.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
1 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CSOC
2 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) OWASP
2 3 (60.00%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (40.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Security Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Application Security
4 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
4 1 (20.00%) Decision Tree
4 1 (20.00%) DevSecOps
4 1 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) SDLC
4 1 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (60.00%) CREST Certified
3 2 (40.00%) CEH
3 2 (40.00%) CHECK Team Leader
3 2 (40.00%) OSCP
4 1 (20.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (40.00%) NCSC
3 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace