Exploratory Testing Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Exploratory Testing
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 8.00% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.26% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Surrey median daily rate - - £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
Surrey median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

Exploratory 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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 39 30 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 78.00% 96.77% 78.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 44
10th Percentile £202 £238 £190
25th Percentile £247 £325 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -13.89% -12.20% +0.49%
75th Percentile £500 £581 £550
90th Percentile £517 £592 £763
Surrey median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 8
10th Percentile £55.00 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £25.75 £11.71
Median hourly rate £67.50 £28.00 £14.96
Median % change year-on-year +141.07% +87.13% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £26.56
90th Percentile £70.00 £30.88 £53.49
Surrey median hourly rate £66.00 £26.25 £19.43
% change year-on-year +151.41% +35.14% -56.83%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Guildford

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Exploratory Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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 4 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 4 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (100.00%) REST
1 4 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
1 4 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 4 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) SDLC
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared