Exploratory Testing Contracts in Leeds

Exploratory Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 27 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 66 -
Rank change year-on-year +1 - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 0.20% 0.25% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.29% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - £475 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 471 685 1,089
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 93.27% 84.88% 90.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 435 777
10th Percentile £287 £300 £380
25th Percentile £385 £409 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £638
90th Percentile £618 £643 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £540
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 15
10th Percentile £31.53 £11.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £31.62 £12.15 £16.13
Median hourly rate £33.11 £12.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +169.19% -38.50% -5.88%
75th Percentile £66.51 £14.55 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.74 £26.50 £60.65
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £12.53 £19.50
% change year-on-year +76.70% -35.74% +4.28%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Leeds

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in Leeds.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in Leeds

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA