Exploratory Testing Contracts in London

Exploratory Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 379 464
Rank change year-on-year +39 +85 +65
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 13 12 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.10% 0.067% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.076% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 10 25
10th Percentile £373 £358 £330
25th Percentile £380 £418 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £441 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% -11.72% +25.00%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £650
90th Percentile £541 £800 £675
England median daily rate £475 £445 £463
% change year-on-year +6.67% -3.72% +8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +5 3 £425 -2.30%
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 3 (23.08%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Cypress.io
1 5 (38.46%) Postman
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
2 3 (23.08%) Git
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) REST Assured
3 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
3 2 (15.38%) JMeter
3 2 (15.38%) JUnit
3 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.69%) Gatling
4 1 (7.69%) GitLab
4 1 (7.69%) Hamcrest
4 1 (7.69%) MSTest
4 1 (7.69%) NUnit
4 1 (7.69%) Ranorex
4 1 (7.69%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (7.69%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Tester
2 3 (23.08%) Java Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Java Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Developer
3 2 (15.38%) Developer in Test
3 2 (15.38%) QA Tester
3 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Automation Tester
4 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.69%) QA Manual Tester
4 1 (7.69%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) .NET
1 4 (30.77%) Playwright
1 4 (30.77%) REST
2 3 (23.08%) Jest
2 3 (23.08%) JSON
2 3 (23.08%) Node.js
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) Gherkin
3 2 (15.38%) HTML
3 2 (15.38%) Web Services
4 1 (7.69%) Kafka
4 1 (7.69%) Nightwatchjs
4 1 (7.69%) SOAP
4 1 (7.69%) WebSockets
4 1 (7.69%) WireMock
4 1 (7.69%) XML
4 1 (7.69%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (46.15%) Product Ownership
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Mindset
2 3 (23.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
4 1 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 1 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Sports Betting
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Android
1 1 (7.69%) Apple iOS
1 1 (7.69%) Linux
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Test Automation
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 10 (76.92%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) Microservices
4 5 (38.46%) BDD
4 5 (38.46%) Coaching
4 5 (38.46%) Performance Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Software Engineering
5 4 (30.77%) Computer Science
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 4 (30.77%) SDET
5 4 (30.77%) SDLC
5 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Strategy
5 4 (30.77%) User Experience
5 4 (30.77%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 7 (53.85%) JavaScript
2 6 (46.15%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) C#
4 2 (15.38%) SQL
5 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (30.77%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
2 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (69.23%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft