Lead Tester Contracts in London

Lead Tester
England > London

The median Lead Tester daily rate in London is £385 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 383 486 601
Rank change year-on-year +103 +115 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Tester 10 19 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.056% 0.071% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.060% 0.075% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 16 6
10th Percentile £343 £531 £473
25th Percentile £369 £538 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £385 £628 £595
Median % change year-on-year -38.65% +5.46% +28.65%
75th Percentile £450 £823 £662
90th Percentile £533 - £725
England median daily rate £395 £601 £570
% change year-on-year -34.30% +5.48% +14.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,617 25,468 37,159
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.25% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,021 18,449 27,170
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £676 £700 £681
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 290 447
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.40
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.21
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +10.62%
75th Percentile £43.75 £61.50 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.20 £67.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%

Lead Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Lead Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Lead Tester in London

Lead Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Lead Tester in London.

Daily rate trend for Lead Tester in London

Lead Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Lead Tester in London over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Lead Tester in London

Lead Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Lead Tester in London.

Hourly rate trend for Lead Tester in London

Lead Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Lead Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Lead Tester in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Python
3 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (40.00%) ETL
3 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
4 3 (30.00%) Serverless
5 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (20.00%) JMeter
5 2 (20.00%) QA
6 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
6 1 (10.00%) Groovy
6 1 (10.00%) JIRA
6 1 (10.00%) Azure
6 1 (10.00%) Node.js
6 1 (10.00%) REST
6 1 (10.00%) Splunk
6 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
6 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
6 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (10.00%) BDD
6 1 (10.00%) Finance
6 1 (10.00%) Migration

Lead Tester Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (30.00%) Serverless
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (30.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) GitLab
2 1 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (10.00%) TestCafe
2 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (10.00%) Banking
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (10.00%) Node.js
1 1 (10.00%) Playwright
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
1 1 (10.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 4 (40.00%) ETL
4 1 (10.00%) Agile
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (10.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Migration
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (10.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (10.00%) TDD
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) Python
2 4 (40.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (10.00%) Groovy
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Grafana
1 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe
1 1 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (10.00%) Qualtrics
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) Splunk
1 1 (10.00%) Virgin Media