Test Consultant Contracts in England

Test Consultant
UK > England

The median Test Consultant daily rate in England is £488, 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 464 530 637
Rank change year-on-year +66 +107 +126
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 21 12 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.032% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.035% 0.034%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 8 9
10th Percentile £439 £371 £299
25th Percentile £467 £434 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £430
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +22.09% -1.71%
75th Percentile £533 £619 £500
90th Percentile £561 £713 £508
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £415
% change year-on-year -2.50% +20.48% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £45.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £45.00 -

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%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Consultant in England

Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Consultant in England

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in England

Test Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Consultant in England

Test Consultant
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 Consultant 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 +43 14 £488 -13.33% 4
South East +50 5 £475 -5.00% 2
West Midlands - 2 £519 -
Midlands - 2 £519 -
Test Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Consultant 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 Test Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (33.33%) Defect Management
4 6 (28.57%) Functional Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 5 (23.81%) Dynatrace
5 5 (23.81%) New Relic
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Test Management
5 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
5 5 (23.81%) JIRA
5 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
5 5 (23.81%) JMeter
5 5 (23.81%) Finance
5 5 (23.81%) Validation
5 5 (23.81%) LoadRunner
5 5 (23.81%) Java
5 5 (23.81%) Python
6 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
6 4 (19.05%) C#
6 4 (19.05%) Data Validation
6 4 (19.05%) System Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Azure
6 4 (19.05%) AWS
6 4 (19.05%) Microservices

Test Consultant 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 (9.52%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Aladdin
1 2 (9.52%) SAP FI
1 2 (9.52%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (4.76%) SAP ERP
2 1 (4.76%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) AWS
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
1 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
1 5 (23.81%) JMeter
1 5 (23.81%) LoadRunner
2 4 (19.05%) Serenity BDD
3 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.52%) Git
3 2 (9.52%) Postman
3 2 (9.52%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.76%) Gatling
4 1 (4.76%) NeoLoad
4 1 (4.76%) Selenium
4 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 5 (23.81%) Finance
3 3 (14.29%) Back Office
3 3 (14.29%) Front Office
4 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 1 (4.76%) Algorithms
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 7 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Functional Testing
4 6 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Performance Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Software Testing
5 5 (23.81%) Test Management
5 5 (23.81%) Validation
6 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
6 4 (19.05%) Data Validation
6 4 (19.05%) Microservices
6 4 (19.05%) Performance Engineering
6 4 (19.05%) Root Cause Analysis
6 4 (19.05%) System Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Java
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) C#
2 4 (19.05%) JavaScript
3 3 (14.29%) SQL
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 1 (4.76%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Perfmon
2 2 (9.52%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Dynatrace
1 5 (23.81%) New Relic
2 3 (14.29%) Charles River
2 3 (14.29%) SAP
3 2 (9.52%) HP
3 2 (9.52%) SimCorp
4 1 (4.76%) AppDynamics
4 1 (4.76%) Ariba
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Workday