Test Harness Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Test Harness
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Test Harness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Harness 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.28% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
West Yorkshire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 912 547 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 85.39% 89.82% 84.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 538 363 406
10th Percentile £381 £305 £350
25th Percentile £420 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% -1.60% -9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £571 £575
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 4 24
10th Percentile £19.69 £25.15 -
25th Percentile £35.00 £25.38 £12.15
Median hourly rate £43.96 £29.56 £15.60
Median % change year-on-year +48.74% +89.52% -17.92%
75th Percentile - £50.48 £33.75
90th Percentile - £79.33 £38.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £24.50 £25.50 £15.68
% change year-on-year -3.92% +62.63% -12.01%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Test Harness job vacancy trend in Leeds

Test Harness
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Test Harness
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Test Harness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Law
1 3 (100.00%) Social Science
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Business Case
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft