Test Assurance Contracts in England

Test Assurance
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 7 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 514 594
Rank change year-on-year +30 +80 +127
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 24 14 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.087% 0.042% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.096% 0.049% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 23
10th Percentile £378 £380 £411
25th Percentile £409 £399 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £488
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -10.77% +14.71%
75th Percentile £513 £468 £594
90th Percentile £575 £545 £612
UK median daily rate £477 £435 £488
% change year-on-year +9.66% -10.77% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Assurance falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,041 28,671 40,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.74% 85.87% 89.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,023 18,689 28,134
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £405 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £630 £650 £666
90th Percentile £738 £757 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% 0.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,391 1,682 1,392
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.14 £18.98
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £50.63 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +60.70%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance in England over the 6 months to 7 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance within the England region over the 6 months to 7 August 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 +4 8 £425 -2.30% 2
South East - 7 £500 - 1
North of England - 4 £450 - 1
South West - 3 £550 - 2
North West - 3 £513 - 1
Midlands - 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
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 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Primavera
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Converged Networks
1 1 (4.17%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (45.83%) JIRA
2 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.17%) Gatling
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Gradle
3 1 (4.17%) Hamcrest
3 1 (4.17%) JMeter
3 1 (4.17%) JUnit
3 1 (4.17%) Postman
3 1 (4.17%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (4.17%) SonarQube
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (33.33%) Tester
2 6 (25.00%) Test Manager
3 5 (20.83%) Lead
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Programme Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Programme Test Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Test Leader
4 3 (12.50%) Test Programme Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Automation Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Project Planner
5 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Manual Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Network Manager
6 1 (4.17%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) QA Manager
6 1 (4.17%) QA Tester
6 1 (4.17%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Middleware
1 2 (8.33%) WireMock
2 1 (4.17%) Kafka
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) Product Ownership
1 6 (25.00%) SCADA
2 2 (8.33%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.17%) NHS
3 1 (4.17%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Linux
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (70.83%) Test Strategy
2 11 (45.83%) Agile
2 11 (45.83%) Test Management
3 8 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 6 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 5 (20.83%) Validation
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
7 4 (16.67%) Regression Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
7 4 (16.67%) Test Planning
8 3 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Scrum
8 3 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
8 3 (12.50%) User Stories
8 3 (12.50%) Workshop Facilitation
9 2 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) SQL
2 4 (16.67%) Perl
2 4 (16.67%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.33%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (45.83%) QA
2 2 (8.33%) P3O
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) CheckPoint
1 3 (12.50%) HP
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 2 (8.33%) MuleSoft
3 1 (4.17%) Avaloq
3 1 (4.17%) BT
3 1 (4.17%) Splunk