Test Leader Contracts in Derbyshire

Test Lead
East Midlands > Derbyshire

As of 1 May 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Lead daily rate in Derbyshire.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Derbyshire 2.06% - 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.44% - 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £330 £395 £743
% change year-on-year -16.46% -46.84% +60.65%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Derbyshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Derbyshire. 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 Derbyshire with a recognized job title 82 161 179
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.54% 94.71% 84.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 111 112
10th Percentile £171 £150 £132
25th Percentile £275 £188 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £262 £450
Median % change year-on-year +62.02% -41.71% +21.21%
75th Percentile £550 £500 £540
90th Percentile £628 £588 £637
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £410 £450
% change year-on-year +9.02% -8.89% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 25 22
10th Percentile £21.65 £13.78 £11.94
25th Percentile £23.30 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £24.34 £17.72 £21.20
Median % change year-on-year +37.36% -16.42% +6.00%
75th Percentile £24.73 £20.00 £51.31
90th Percentile £24.95 £26.15 £65.00
East Midlands median hourly rate £23.21 £17.50 £20.36
% change year-on-year +32.60% -14.05% +19.03%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Derbyshire

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Derbyshire.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in Derbyshire

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Derbyshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in Derbyshire.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in Derbyshire

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in Derbyshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the Derbyshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Derby - 2 - -
Test Leader
East Midlands

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Leader 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 Derbyshire region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) C#

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Derbyshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Backlog Refinement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle