Senior Tester Contracts in England

Senior Tester
UK > England

The median Senior Tester daily rate in England is £538 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 644 739
Rank change year-on-year +125 +95 -139
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 29 24 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.078% 0.047% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.050% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 17 33
10th Percentile £355 £420 £313
25th Percentile £413 £456 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +16.67% +2.86%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £550
90th Percentile £750 £620 £618
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £478
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.95% +12.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +56.52% +27.78%
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £90.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +56.52% +27.78%

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 34,517 47,965 67,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.58% 95.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,960 34,010 48,090
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 2,411 1,443 1,914
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.31 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.67 £48.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.45 £62.15
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in England

Senior Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Tester in England

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Tester in England

Senior Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Tester in England

Senior 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 Senior Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 25 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 +108 18 £575 - 4
South East +13 5 £425 -19.05%
South West - 4 - -
North West - 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
Senior Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Tester in the job title.

1 8 (27.59%) SQL
1 8 (27.59%) Software Testing
1 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
2 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 7 (24.14%) QA
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) C#
3 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
4 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 5 (17.24%) Oracle
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
4 5 (17.24%) JMeter
4 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
4 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (13.79%) Agile
5 4 (13.79%) JIRA
5 4 (13.79%) Performance Testing
5 4 (13.79%) Test Management
5 4 (13.79%) Finance
5 4 (13.79%) Back Office
5 4 (13.79%) AWS
5 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
5 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (10.34%) API Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
6 3 (10.34%) Azure
6 3 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (10.34%) BDD
6 3 (10.34%) Mentoring

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (13.79%) AWS
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
3 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (3.45%) GitHub
3 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.90%) Firewall
2 1 (3.45%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (17.24%) JMeter
2 4 (13.79%) JIRA
3 3 (10.34%) TestComplete
4 2 (6.90%) Cucumber
4 2 (6.90%) FitNesse
4 2 (6.90%) Git
4 2 (6.90%) LoadRunner
4 2 (6.90%) SpecFlow
4 2 (6.90%) TestRail
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.45%) Postman
5 1 (3.45%) Selenium
5 1 (3.45%) SoapUI
General
1 6 (20.69%) Public Sector
2 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.79%) Back Office
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.90%) Front Office
5 1 (3.45%) Electronics
5 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.45%) Marketing
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
1 2 (6.90%) .NET Framework
1 2 (6.90%) REST
2 1 (3.45%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.90%) PKI
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.45%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Software Testing
1 8 (27.59%) Test Automation
2 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (13.79%) Agile
3 4 (13.79%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (13.79%) Performance Testing
3 4 (13.79%) Test Management
4 3 (10.34%) API Testing
4 3 (10.34%) BDD
4 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
4 3 (10.34%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (10.34%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Load Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Mentoring
4 3 (10.34%) Scenario Testing
4 3 (10.34%) Security Testing
4 3 (10.34%) TDD
4 3 (10.34%) Test Scripting
5 2 (6.90%) Cryptography
5 2 (6.90%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) SQL
2 7 (24.14%) Python
3 6 (20.69%) C#
4 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
5 2 (6.90%) Java
5 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 7 (24.14%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (6.90%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (3.45%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) QA
2 1 (3.45%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (6.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.24%) Oracle
2 2 (6.90%) OpenLink
3 1 (3.45%) Murex
3 1 (3.45%) SAP