Volume Testing Contract Job Trends in England

Volume Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Volume Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 536 510 561
Rank change year-on-year -26 +51 +175
Contract jobs citing Volume Testing 3 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.009% 0.010% 0.008%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.012% 0.009%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £311 £376
25th Percentile - £327 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £356 £400
Median % change year-on-year +61.40% -10.94% -27.27%
75th Percentile £606 £389 £445
90th Percentile £625 £407 £472
UK median daily rate £575 £356 £413
% change year-on-year +61.40% -13.64% -25.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Volume Testing 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 28,018 25,529 32,356
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.67% 88.68% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,807 15,764 21,976
10th Percentile £300 £312 £308
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,812 837 1,391
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.75
25th Percentile £17.89 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +24.47%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.63 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Volume Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Volume Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Volume Testing job vacancy trend in England

Volume Testing
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Volume Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Volume Testing

Volume Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Volume Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Volume Testing

Volume Testing
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 Volume Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 24 December 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 -11 2 £575 +91.67%
East of England - 1 £625 -
Volume Testing
UK

Volume Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Test Programme Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Scrum Master
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum Master
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Middleware
1 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) ADO
2 1 (33.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
1 1 (33.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Budget Management
2 2 (66.67%) Budgeting
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Programme Management
2 2 (66.67%) Resource Management
2 2 (66.67%) Supplier Management
2 2 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Technology Transformation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Assurance
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C#
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle