Agile Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Agile Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Agile Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 377 432
Rank change year-on-year +6 +55 +133
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 2 4 4
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.015% 0.025% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.028% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 4
10th Percentile - £422 £521
25th Percentile - £447 £572
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £488 £605
Median % change year-on-year -28.28% -19.34% +9.75%
75th Percentile - £544 £621
90th Percentile - £578 £631
England median daily rate £420 £400 £605
% change year-on-year +5.00% -33.88% +19.21%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Agile 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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,383 14,144 18,715
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.47% 89.32% 89.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,154 9,143 13,547
10th Percentile £332 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -2.13%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 244 174 230
10th Percentile £18.06 £17.65 £18.48
25th Percentile £24.94 £24.16 £21.56
Median hourly rate £30.25 £37.79 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year -19.94% -2.39% +0.89%
75th Percentile £47.63 £57.50 £61.31
90th Percentile £64.93 £78.75 £76.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Agile Testing job vacancy trend in London

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Agile Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Agile Testing

Agile Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 1 (50.00%) SaaS
1 1 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA