Exploratory Testing Contract Job Trends in London

Exploratory Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 23 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 357 393
Rank change year-on-year 0 +36 +158
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 9 23 41
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.067% 0.14% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.073% 0.16% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 19 33
10th Percentile £385 £313 £320
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -15.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £522 £575 £600
90th Percentile £601 £575 £723
England median daily rate £450 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%

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 12,364 14,196 18,576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.42% 89.34% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,143 9,162 13,445
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -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 245 174 229
10th Percentile £18.09 £17.65 £18.47
25th Percentile £25.00 £24.26 £21.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.29 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -3.88% +2.30%
75th Percentile £47.50 £57.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £64.90 £78.75 £77.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.16 £44.50
% change year-on-year -38.89% -7.52% +27.14%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in London

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in London over the 6 months to 23 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Testing in London

Exploratory Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Exploratory Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Exploratory Testing

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 23 October 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 +4 4 £425 -22.73% 4
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) AWS
2 2 (22.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub
3 1 (11.11%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (11.11%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 3 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 3 (33.33%) GitLab
2 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) REST Assured
3 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 1 (11.11%) Android Studio
4 1 (11.11%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (11.11%) Gatling
4 1 (11.11%) Hamcrest
4 1 (11.11%) JUnit
4 1 (11.11%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (11.11%) SonarQube
4 1 (11.11%) Xcode
4 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Analyst
1 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Developer in Test
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Software Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Testing Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) CSS
1 3 (33.33%) HTML
1 3 (33.33%) Playwright
2 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
2 2 (22.22%) JSON
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
3 1 (11.11%) React
3 1 (11.11%) REST
3 1 (11.11%) RESTful
3 1 (11.11%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Structures
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Equities
2 1 (11.11%) Fixed Income
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Android
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) CI/CD
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) API Testing
4 3 (33.33%) BDD
4 3 (33.33%) DevOps
4 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) SDET
4 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) JavaScript
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (77.78%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Charles River
1 1 (11.11%) Murex
1 1 (11.11%) Splunk