Tester Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Tester
England > East Midlands

The median Tester daily rate in the East Midlands is £310, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2025.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 59 57
Rank change year-on-year +9 -2 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 24 4 9
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.81% 0.54% 1.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.05% 0.58% 1.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 4 7
10th Percentile £219 - £410
25th Percentile £256 £309 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £310 £387 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.84% -9.00% +1.49%
75th Percentile £360 £473 £458
90th Percentile £469 £478 £480
England median daily rate £453 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +0.56% -5.26% +5.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 788 686 771
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.16% 93.33% 94.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 540 406 564
10th Percentile £190 £263 £202
25th Percentile £334 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £442 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -7.05% +2.49%
75th Percentile £523 £530 £588
90th Percentile £638 £600 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 38 54
10th Percentile £16.17 £13.27 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.39 £24.18 £18.16
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +33.13% +6.84%
75th Percentile £25.15 £42.56 £28.75
90th Percentile £26.00 £51.50 £68.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -39.40% -9.55% +55.53%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Tester job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the East Midlands

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in the East Midlands

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Northamptonshire - 16 £265 - 1
Leicestershire -7 5 £360 +13.03%
Nottinghamshire - 2 £410 - 1
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 October 2025, 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 East Midlands region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 22 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 15 (62.50%) Java
3 14 (58.33%) Selenium
4 11 (45.83%) Cucumber
5 10 (41.67%) Test Strategy
6 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
7 8 (33.33%) jQuery
7 8 (33.33%) Test Scripting
8 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (29.17%) Oracle
9 6 (25.00%) Agile
9 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
9 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (25.00%) SQL
10 5 (20.83%) API Testing
10 5 (20.83%) DOM
10 5 (20.83%) HTML
10 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (16.67%) AWS
11 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
11 4 (16.67%) REST Assured
11 4 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
12 3 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
12 3 (12.50%) CICS
12 3 (12.50%) COBOL
12 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
12 3 (12.50%) DB2
12 3 (12.50%) DevOps
12 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
12 3 (12.50%) Git

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (12.50%) CICS
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.50%) DB2
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle Database
2 2 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) Selenium
2 11 (45.83%) Cucumber
3 9 (37.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (16.67%) REST Assured
5 3 (12.50%) Eclipse
5 3 (12.50%) Git
5 3 (12.50%) IntelliJ
5 3 (12.50%) Maven
5 3 (12.50%) Postman
6 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
6 1 (4.17%) Ranorex
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
3 6 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Finance
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (33.33%) jQuery
2 5 (20.83%) DOM
2 5 (20.83%) HTML
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.17%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Mainframe
1 3 (12.50%) VSAM
2 2 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 10 (41.67%) Test Strategy
3 8 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 7 (29.17%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (25.00%) Agile
5 6 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) API Testing
6 5 (20.83%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
8 3 (12.50%) Code Quality
8 3 (12.50%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
8 3 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Validation
9 2 (8.33%) Functional Testing
9 2 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (62.50%) Java
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) COBOL
3 3 (12.50%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (4.17%) CISA
3 1 (4.17%) CISM
3 1 (4.17%) CISSP
3 1 (4.17%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (4.17%) COBIT
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (4.17%) NIST
3 1 (4.17%) NIST 800
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Oracle
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 2 (8.33%) Unisys
4 1 (4.17%) Rapid7