Data-Driven Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Data-Driven Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 390 355 -
Rank change year-on-year -35 - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.025% 0.015% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.016% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £495 £619 -
25th Percentile £525 £628 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £663 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% - -
75th Percentile £663 £703 -
90th Percentile £700 £716 -
England median daily rate £450 £713 £600
% change year-on-year -36.84% +18.75% +68.42%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

Data-Driven 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 14,350 12,188 16,262
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 90.29% 90.83% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,627 7,901 11,629
10th Percentile £350 £350 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £800 £788
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 159 347
10th Percentile £18.07 £20.69 £16.00
25th Percentile £23.40 £25.25 £19.42
Median hourly rate £35.00 £36.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% -15.49%
75th Percentile £56.99 £54.50 £50.13
90th Percentile £72.50 £78.47 £72.20
England median hourly rate £28.50 £35.00 £34.77
% change year-on-year -18.57% +0.68% -0.67%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Data-Driven Testing job vacancy trend in London

Data-Driven Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data-Driven Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Data-Driven Testing

Data-Driven Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Testing in London over the 6 months to 28 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Testing in London

Data-Driven 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JUnit
1 2 (50.00%) Postman
1 2 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (25.00%) Liquibase
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Derivative
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Data Validation
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Validation
3 2 (50.00%) AI
3 2 (50.00%) API Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Data Sharing
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Observability
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform