Test Consultant Contracts in England

Test Consultant
UK > England

The median Test Consultant daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 640 771
Rank change year-on-year +104 +131 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 12 16 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.032% 0.032% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.034% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 10
10th Percentile £371 £299 £350
25th Percentile £434 £363 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £430 £438
Median % change year-on-year +22.09% -1.71% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £500 £488
90th Percentile £713 £508 £531
UK median daily rate £500 £415 £425
% change year-on-year +20.48% -2.35% -3.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 6 May 2024.

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 6 May 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 +113 9 £563 +20.97%
North of England +25 1 £375 -16.67% 2
Yorkshire +21 1 £375 -25.00%
South East +20 1 £500 -
East of England - 1 - -
Test Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) User Stories
2 5 (41.67%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) SimCorp
3 4 (33.33%) SimCorp Dimension
3 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
5 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Selenium
5 2 (16.67%) C#
5 2 (16.67%) Java
5 2 (16.67%) .NET
5 2 (16.67%) JUnit
5 2 (16.67%) SAP
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
5 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 2 (16.67%) TestNG
5 2 (16.67%) Git
5 2 (16.67%) SoapUI

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:

Business Applications
1 4 (33.33%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (8.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (8.33%) SAP Travel Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Firewall
1 1 (8.33%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Appium
1 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (16.67%) eggPlant
1 2 (16.67%) Git
1 2 (16.67%) JUnit
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) REST Assured
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
1 2 (16.67%) SOAtest
1 2 (16.67%) TestNG
1 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
2 1 (8.33%) JMeter
2 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (8.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 5 (41.67%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) .NET Framework
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) SAP TM
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) User Stories
3 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 4 (33.33%) Asset Management
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Management
3 4 (33.33%) Migration
3 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
6 1 (8.33%) ATDD
6 1 (8.33%) BDD
6 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 1 (8.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) SimCorp
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) JDA
3 1 (8.33%) Salesforce