Tester Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Tester
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The median Tester daily rate in Leeds is £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 62 47
Rank change year-on-year -10 -15 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 11 4 23
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.13% 0.79% 2.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.21% 0.80% 3.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile £258 - £418
25th Percentile £275 £263 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £300 £510
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -41.18% +7.37%
75th Percentile £350 £388 £600
90th Percentile £430 £478 £640
West Yorkshire median daily rate £320 £325 £510
% change year-on-year -1.54% -36.27% +12.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Leeds

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Leeds. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Leeds with a recognized job title 912 498 740
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.02% 98.22% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 555 327 476
10th Percentile £340 £284 £300
25th Percentile £416 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -7.41%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £663 £600 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £485 £495
% change year-on-year +3.09% -2.02% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 22
10th Percentile £16.18 £31.53 £11.75
25th Percentile £18.31 £31.62 £12.25
Median hourly rate £30.50 £33.11 £18.20
Median % change year-on-year -7.88% +81.92% -14.59%
75th Percentile £35.00 £66.51 £48.75
90th Percentile £70.10 £85.74 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.77 £22.14 £18.27
% change year-on-year +16.40% +21.18% -8.65%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds.

Tester job vacancy trend in Leeds

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Leeds

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Leeds over the 6 months to 29 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Leeds

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Leeds.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Leeds

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds

For the 6 months to 29 June 2026, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Leeds region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 6 (54.55%) Security Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Claude Code
3 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
3 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
3 4 (36.36%) JUnit
3 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
3 4 (36.36%) Offensive Security
3 4 (36.36%) QA
3 4 (36.36%) Red Team
3 4 (36.36%) Selenium
3 4 (36.36%) TestNG
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Scala
5 2 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Apigee
5 2 (18.18%) AWS
5 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) Confluence
5 2 (18.18%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Docker

Tester Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Apigee
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) BrowserStack
1 2 (18.18%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Claude Code
1 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
1 4 (36.36%) Cypress.io
1 4 (36.36%) JUnit
1 4 (36.36%) Selenium
1 4 (36.36%) TestNG
2 2 (18.18%) Gatling
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 2 (18.18%) JMeter
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) Playwright
1 2 (18.18%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Security Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
3 4 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 4 (36.36%) Offensive Security
3 4 (36.36%) Red Team
4 3 (27.27%) Agile
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
5 2 (18.18%) API Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Exploratory Testing
6 1 (9.09%) API Management
6 1 (9.09%) Compatibility Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 1 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (9.09%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
6 1 (9.09%) Defect Management
6 1 (9.09%) Integration Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Manual Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Thought Leadership
6 1 (9.09%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) Scala
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) SC Cleared
1 5 (45.45%) Security Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 4 (36.36%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) IBM