Test Assurance Contract Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Test Assurance
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 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 45 - 58
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Gloucestershire 0.22% - 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% - 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £400
South West median daily rate £600 £550 £440
% change year-on-year +9.09% +25.00% -4.86%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 331 282 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 72.75% 88.96% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 193 192
10th Percentile £340 £240 £383
25th Percentile £464 £380 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £591
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -15.33% +7.36%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £676
90th Percentile £800 £725 £749
South West median daily rate £538 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +6.17% -3.57% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 18 31
10th Percentile £13.99 £19.14 £22.50
25th Percentile £36.25 £26.96 £29.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £35.17 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.06% -12.08% -30.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £68.00 £71.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £71.50 £73.75
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £67.50
% change year-on-year +146.52% -62.74% +12.50%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Test Assurance job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in Gloucestershire

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

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

Test Assurance
Contract Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Assurance within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 14 October 2026. 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
Gloucester - 1 £550 -
Test Assurance
South West

Test Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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