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 17 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 388 462 538
Rank change year-on-year +74 +76 -74
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 12 20 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.068% 0.080% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.077% 0.087% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 18 48
10th Percentile £358 £318 £313
25th Percentile £408 £366 £327
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £436 £525 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.90% +31.25% -6.10%
75th Percentile £511 £638 £459
90th Percentile £576 £675 £488
England median daily rate £436 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -5.68% +8.82% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.88
25th Percentile - - £32.19
Median hourly rate - - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £57.63
England median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £41.25
% change year-on-year +16.28% +30.30% +37.68%

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 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 17 June 2024.

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 17 June 2024. 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 +40 3 £435 -27.50%
South London +9 2 £493 +51.54% 1
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 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) AWS
1 2 (16.67%) Azure
1 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) JUnit
2 4 (33.33%) TestNG
2 4 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (25.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (16.67%) Gerrit
4 2 (16.67%) Git
4 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 2 (16.67%) Maven
4 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 2 (16.67%) Serenity BDD
4 2 (16.67%) Zephyr
5 1 (8.33%) GitLab
5 1 (8.33%) Protractor
5 1 (8.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (8.33%) TestRail
5 1 (8.33%) Travis CI
5 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Exploratory Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) REST
2 1 (8.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Unix
2 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Agile
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) BDD
3 5 (41.67%) Open Source
4 4 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Analytics
5 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (25.00%) Functional Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Kanban
5 3 (25.00%) Microservices
5 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
5 3 (25.00%) User Stories
6 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 3 (25.00%) Ruby
3 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (8.33%) C#
4 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) Perl
4 1 (8.33%) Python
4 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) HP ALM
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Dynatrace
1 1 (8.33%) HP
1 1 (8.33%) PagerDuty
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) Spotify