Test Harness Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Test Harness
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Test Harness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Harness 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
South East median daily rate £420 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -11.68% -13.64% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Test Harness 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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,557 855 1,153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 79.04% 86.10% 79.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 947 600 702
10th Percentile £363 £310 £363
25th Percentile £473 £452 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £650 £601 £659
90th Percentile £730 £656 £725
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 72 119
10th Percentile £13.45 £18.87 £19.54
25th Percentile £16.59 £18.97 £51.06
Median hourly rate £49.00 £25.15 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +94.83% -56.15% +9.24%
75th Percentile £60.00 £51.25 £73.75
90th Percentile £73.10 £64.88 £77.24
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Test Harness job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Test Harness
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Harness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Harness

Test Harness
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Harness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Harness

Test Harness
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Harness within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Romsey - 3 - -
Test Harness
South East

Test Harness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) FPGA
1 3 (100.00%) Verilog
1 3 (100.00%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Engagement
1 3 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 3 (100.00%) Digital Signal Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Signal Processing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Trade-off Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C
1 3 (100.00%) C++
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C
1 3 (100.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Intel
1 3 (100.00%) SAP
1 3 (100.00%) Xilinx