Test Assurance Contract Job Trends in Gloucester

Test Assurance
Gloucestershire > Gloucester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucester requiring Test Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 19 - 20
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucester 1.02% - 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.43% - 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £400
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 - £400

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucester

Test Assurance 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 Gloucester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 70 116 77
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester 71.43% 95.08% 95.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 102 55
10th Percentile £325 £225 £400
25th Percentile £480 £366 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% -9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £644 £675 £700
90th Percentile £875 £723 £750
Gloucestershire median daily rate £550 £500 £591
% change year-on-year +10.00% -15.33% +7.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £21.66 £18.00
25th Percentile - £22.97 £18.75
Median hourly rate - £25.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year - +19.76% -73.08%
75th Percentile - £41.95 £22.75
90th Percentile - £52.03 £23.20
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £47.50 £35.17 £40.00
% change year-on-year +35.06% -12.08% -30.43%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucester.

Test Assurance job vacancy trend in Gloucester

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Test Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Gloucester citing Test Assurance

Test Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucester 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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 1 (100.00%) Business Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (100.00%) Impact Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO 22301
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST