Senior Tester Contracts in England

Senior Tester
UK > England

The median Senior Tester daily rate in England is £363, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 465 514 629
Rank change year-on-year +49 +115 +113
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 20 28 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.082% 0.075% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.089% 0.081% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 17
10th Percentile £329 £355 £420
25th Percentile £341 £413 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -32.56% +2.38% +16.67%
75th Percentile £396 £594 £588
90th Percentile £523 £750 £620
UK median daily rate £380 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -24.00% -4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £90.00
UK median hourly rate - - £90.00
% change year-on-year - - +56.52%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
London +33 12 £341 -40.70% 7
South East +46 5 £345 -18.82% 36
North of England +20 2 £390 - 32
North West +18 2 £390 - 14
South West +43 1 - - 20
Senior Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 8 (40.00%) SQL
4 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
5 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 7 (35.00%) SoapUI
5 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
6 6 (30.00%) SaaS
6 6 (30.00%) QA
6 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
6 6 (30.00%) DevOps
7 5 (25.00%) IaaS
7 5 (25.00%) GWAPT
7 5 (25.00%) GPEN
7 5 (25.00%) OSCP
7 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
7 5 (25.00%) Secure Coding
7 5 (25.00%) CREST Certified
7 5 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 5 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (25.00%) CCSAS
7 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (25.00%) Postman
7 5 (25.00%) Red Team
7 5 (25.00%) Purple Team
7 5 (25.00%) Application Security

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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Murex MxG2000
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) SaaS
2 5 (25.00%) IaaS
2 5 (25.00%) PaaS
3 4 (20.00%) BrowserStack
4 3 (15.00%) Azure
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (10.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (5.00%) AWS
6 1 (5.00%) Azure Functions
6 1 (5.00%) GitHub
6 1 (5.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 7 (35.00%) SoapUI
2 5 (25.00%) Postman
3 4 (20.00%) Appium
3 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
3 4 (20.00%) JIRA
4 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (10.00%) SpecFlow
6 1 (5.00%) Charles Proxy
6 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (5.00%) TestRail
6 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Legal
3 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Finance
5 2 (10.00%) Electronics
5 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 2 (10.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) CSS
1 5 (25.00%) HTML
2 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (10.00%) PySpark
2 2 (10.00%) SOAP
2 2 (10.00%) XML
3 1 (5.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
1 5 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 2 (10.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (35.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (30.00%) DevOps
5 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Penetration Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Application Security
6 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 5 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
6 5 (25.00%) Information Security
6 5 (25.00%) Offensive Security
6 5 (25.00%) OWASP
6 5 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (25.00%) Purple Team
6 5 (25.00%) Red Team
6 5 (25.00%) Secure Coding
6 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
6 5 (25.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 10 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 8 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (25.00%) PHP
3 5 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (25.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (25.00%) CCSAS
2 5 (25.00%) CEH
2 5 (25.00%) CREST Certified
2 5 (25.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) GIAC
2 5 (25.00%) GPEN
2 5 (25.00%) GWAPT
2 5 (25.00%) OSCP
2 5 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 2 (10.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Databricks
1 2 (10.00%) SAP
2 1 (5.00%) Murex