Lead Tester Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Lead Tester
Hampshire > Farnborough

The median Lead Tester daily rate in Farnborough is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

 6 months to
8 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 0.39% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median daily rate £375 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Farnborough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Farnborough. 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 Farnborough with a recognized job title 242 85 84
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.90% 93.41% 55.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 59 57
10th Percentile £454 £399 £400
25th Percentile £489 £425 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -16.67% +26.32%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £671
90th Percentile £725 £665 £744
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +4.76% -8.70% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 10 1
10th Percentile £25.00 £70.50 -
25th Percentile £40.00 - -
Median hourly rate £45.59 £75.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.22% +172.73% -53.97%
75th Percentile £51.00 - -
90th Percentile - £76.13 -
Hampshire median hourly rate £45.00 £55.00 £57.35
% change year-on-year -18.18% -4.10% +9.24%

Lead Tester Skill Set
Top 10 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough

For the 6 months to 8 May 2026, Lead Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Farnborough region featuring Lead Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript

Lead Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
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