Lead Tester Contracts in England

Lead Tester
UK > England

The median Lead Tester daily rate in England is £395 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 635 757
Rank change year-on-year +101 +122 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Tester 11 24 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.047% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.050% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 18 8
10th Percentile £345 £460 £492
25th Percentile £375 £519 £520
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £628 £570
Median % change year-on-year -37.05% +10.09% +14.00%
75th Percentile £525 £783 £623
90th Percentile £554 £823 £640
UK median daily rate £395 £628 £565
% change year-on-year -37.05% +11.06% +16.49%

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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Lead Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Lead Tester in England

Lead Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Lead Tester in England

Lead Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Tester in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Tester in England

Lead Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Tester in England.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Tester in England

Lead Tester
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 Lead Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +103 9 £385 -38.65%
North of England +28 2 £563 - 1
North West +20 1 £563 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
Lead Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Lead 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 England region featuring Lead Tester in the job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) AWS
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (27.27%) Serverless
4 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (18.18%) Java
5 2 (18.18%) Agile
5 2 (18.18%) QA
5 2 (18.18%) Selenium
5 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Azure
5 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
5 2 (18.18%) BDD
6 1 (9.09%) Splunk
6 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
6 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
6 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
6 1 (9.09%) C#
6 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Test Scripting
6 1 (9.09%) Git
6 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
6 1 (9.09%) TDD
6 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering

Lead Tester 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 3 (27.27%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (27.27%) Serverless
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
4 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Pipelines
4 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (9.09%) Power Automate
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (27.27%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Selenium
2 1 (9.09%) Git
2 1 (9.09%) JMeter
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Postman
2 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) GraphQL
1 1 (9.09%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) ETL
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) BDD
4 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
5 1 (9.09%) DevOps
5 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Functional Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Privileged Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) QA Automation
5 1 (9.09%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.09%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
5 1 (9.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) TypeScript
3 1 (9.09%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Adobe
1 1 (9.09%) Qualtrics
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk
1 1 (9.09%) Virgin Media