Azure Test Lead Contracts in England

Test Lead - Microsoft Azure
UK > England

The median Test Lead - Microsoft Azure daily rate in England is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 657 787
Rank change year-on-year +121 +130 -174
Contract jobs requiring an Azure Test Lead 5 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.008% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.008% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
10th Percentile £526 £555 £500
25th Percentile £546 £600 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £675 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.07% +17.39% +12.20%
75th Percentile £628 £709 £578
90th Percentile £656 £726 £669
UK median daily rate £580 £675 £575
% change year-on-year -14.07% +17.39% +9.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,183 47,267 67,930
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.63% 95.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,703 33,560 48,361
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,433 1,401 1,881
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.82 £77.00 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Azure Test Lead
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Azure Test Lead in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Azure Test Lead in England

Azure Test Lead
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Azure Test Lead in England.

Daily rate trend for Azure Test Lead in England

Azure Test Lead
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure Test Lead in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Azure Test Lead in England

Azure Test Lead
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure Test Lead within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
London +113 4 £580 -14.07% 1
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Azure Test Lead
UK

Azure Test Lead Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Azure Test Lead 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 England region featuring Azure Test Lead in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (40.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Kanban
5 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
5 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (20.00%) Law
5 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Security Testing

Azure Test Lead Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (20.00%) Confluence
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Git
1 2 (40.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) Gatling
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) TestRail
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Electronics
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) ADO
1 1 (20.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (20.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Scrum
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Load Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (20.00%) iManage
1 1 (20.00%) Intapp
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) OpenAI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP