Web Testing Contracts in England

Web Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Web Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web Testing over the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 499 527 600
Rank change year-on-year +28 +73 +181
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 4 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.021% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.024% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 20
10th Percentile - £391 £189
25th Percentile £425 £456 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £424
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +41.51% -3.09%
75th Percentile £475 £669 £582
90th Percentile - £675 £651
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.16% +0.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Web 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 25,047 28,779 40,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.70% 85.90% 89.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,036 18,796 28,423
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 £758 £763
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,394 1,684 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.15 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%
75th Percentile £50.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.11 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.41 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.77% -4.91% +61.02%

Web Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Web Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Web Testing in England

Web Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Web Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Web Testing in England

Web Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Web Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Web Testing in England

Web 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 Web Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 5 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
East Midlands -6 2 £450 +24.14%
Midlands -8 2 £450 +24.14%
London -3 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £475 - 1
North of England - 1 £475 - 2
Web Testing
UK

Web Testing
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (75.00%) JMeter
1 3 (75.00%) Postman
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (50.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) TestNG
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (50.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (50.00%) Data Validation
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Robotic Process Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Validation
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Nintex