Test Leader Contracts in England

Test Lead
UK > England

The median Test Lead daily rate in England is £513 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 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
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 437 464 479
Rank change year-on-year +27 +15 +15
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 102 184 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.38% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.40% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 133 216
10th Percentile £363 £363 £388
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £492
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +1.63% +12.46%
75th Percentile £596 £625 £555
90th Percentile £671 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +2.50% +1.11% +9.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.05
25th Percentile £38.40 - £25.13
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -
75th Percentile £44.13 - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £26.35
UK median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -

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 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £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 £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
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 Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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 +66 62 £550 - 8
East of England +21 15 £375 -49.53% 2
Midlands +22 9 £425 -19.05% 3
South West +11 7 £375 -30.23% 1
West Midlands +8 6 £425 -17.07% 2
South East -1 4 £450 +12.50% 7
North of England -1 4 £456 -3.95%
East Midlands +17 3 £395 -46.84% 1
Yorkshire -1 2 - -
North West 0 1 £413 +3.77%
Test Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Test Leader 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 Leader in the job title.

1 43 (42.16%) Test Strategy
2 36 (35.29%) Test Automation
3 32 (31.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 31 (30.39%) QA
5 25 (24.51%) Test Management
5 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
6 24 (23.53%) Test Planning
7 22 (21.57%) JIRA
8 21 (20.59%) Agile
9 20 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
9 20 (19.61%) Performance Testing
9 20 (19.61%) Finance
10 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
12 16 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 15 (14.71%) DevOps
13 15 (14.71%) Azure
14 14 (13.73%) System Integration Testing
15 13 (12.75%) Functional Testing
15 13 (12.75%) Project Management
16 12 (11.76%) Defect Management
17 11 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
17 11 (10.78%) Non-Functional Testing
17 11 (10.78%) Migration
17 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
18 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
18 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
19 9 (8.82%) TestRail
19 9 (8.82%) Games
19 9 (8.82%) End-to-End Testing

Test Leader 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 5 (4.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (6.86%) Loan IQ
1 7 (6.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (2.94%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (1.96%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.98%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (0.98%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (0.98%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.98%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (14.71%) Azure
2 7 (6.86%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (6.86%) Tricentis Tosca
3 4 (3.92%) AWS
4 3 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (2.94%) Azure Pipelines
4 3 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.96%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.98%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (0.98%) Datadog
6 1 (0.98%) dbt
6 1 (0.98%) Firebase
6 1 (0.98%) Miro
6 1 (0.98%) SaaS
6 1 (0.98%) Snowflake
6 1 (0.98%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.94%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.94%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.98%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.98%) DB2
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.98%) RDBMS
2 1 (0.98%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (21.57%) JIRA
2 9 (8.82%) TestRail
3 8 (7.84%) JMeter
3 8 (7.84%) LoadRunner
3 8 (7.84%) Selenium
4 5 (4.90%) Cucumber
4 5 (4.90%) Git
4 5 (4.90%) NeoLoad
5 3 (2.94%) Cypress.io
5 3 (2.94%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.94%) Postman
5 3 (2.94%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.96%) Gatling
6 2 (1.96%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.98%) Appium
7 1 (0.98%) GitLab
7 1 (0.98%) Katalon Studio
7 1 (0.98%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.98%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (0.98%) WebDriver
General
1 25 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 20 (19.61%) Finance
3 9 (8.82%) Games
4 8 (7.84%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (7.84%) Banking
5 6 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.90%) Law
6 5 (4.90%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.92%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.92%) Legal
8 2 (1.96%) Back Office
8 2 (1.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.98%) Electronics
9 1 (0.98%) Front Office
9 1 (0.98%) Marketing
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.90%) .NET
1 5 (4.90%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (3.92%) Playwright
2 4 (3.92%) REST
3 3 (2.94%) .NET Core
4 2 (1.96%) Gherkin
4 2 (1.96%) Middleware
4 2 (1.96%) SOAP
5 1 (0.98%) ADO
5 1 (0.98%) OpenAPI
5 1 (0.98%) RAML
5 1 (0.98%) RESTful
5 1 (0.98%) Swagger
5 1 (0.98%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.92%) FMCG
2 3 (2.94%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.96%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.98%) Fixed Income
4 1 (0.98%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.98%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (5.88%) Windows
2 4 (3.92%) Unix
3 3 (2.94%) Linux
3 3 (2.94%) VMS
3 3 (2.94%) Windows 2000
3 3 (2.94%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (42.16%) Test Strategy
2 36 (35.29%) Test Automation
3 32 (31.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 25 (24.51%) Test Management
5 24 (23.53%) Test Planning
6 21 (20.59%) Agile
7 20 (19.61%) Performance Testing
7 20 (19.61%) Stakeholder Management
8 19 (18.63%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
10 16 (15.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 15 (14.71%) DevOps
12 14 (13.73%) System Integration Testing
13 13 (12.75%) Functional Testing
13 13 (12.75%) Project Management
14 12 (11.76%) Defect Management
15 11 (10.78%) Acceptance Criteria
15 11 (10.78%) CI/CD
15 11 (10.78%) Migration
15 11 (10.78%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.86%) Java
2 5 (4.90%) C#
2 5 (4.90%) SQL
3 4 (3.92%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.94%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.94%) Python
5 2 (1.96%) ProC
6 1 (0.98%) C
6 1 (0.98%) C++
6 1 (0.98%) Ruby
6 1 (0.98%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (9.80%) SC Cleared
1 10 (9.80%) Security Cleared
2 5 (4.90%) ISEB
3 3 (2.94%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (1.96%) Degree
5 1 (0.98%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (0.98%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (30.39%) QA
2 4 (3.92%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.94%) WCAG
4 1 (0.98%) EMIR
4 1 (0.98%) MiFID
4 1 (0.98%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.96%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (2.94%) Ansible
1 3 (2.94%) Terraform
2 2 (1.96%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.98%) Grafana
3 1 (0.98%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.98%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (6.86%) Oracle
2 6 (5.88%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.88%) SAP
3 5 (4.90%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (4.90%) iManage
3 5 (4.90%) Intapp
3 5 (4.90%) OpenAI
4 3 (2.94%) Fortinet
4 3 (2.94%) HP
4 3 (2.94%) Juniper
4 3 (2.94%) VMware
5 2 (1.96%) Dynatrace
5 2 (1.96%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.98%) AppDynamics
6 1 (0.98%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.98%) Charles River
6 1 (0.98%) Citrix
6 1 (0.98%) Pega
6 1 (0.98%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.98%) Splunk