Senior Tester Contracts in London

Senior Tester
England > London

The median Senior Tester daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 490 575
Rank change year-on-year +114 +85 -128
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 17 16 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.095% 0.058% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.060% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 8 21
10th Percentile £335 £474 £395
25th Percentile £415 £501 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% +8.57%
75th Percentile £603 £617 £560
90th Percentile £750 £666 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £53.75
Median hourly rate - £90.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year - +56.52% -
75th Percentile - - £61.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - £90.00 £57.50
% change year-on-year - +56.52% -

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 16,716 26,473 37,451
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.10% 95.27% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,077 19,090 27,318
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.84%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £788 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 346 303 458
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.59 £16.50
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.24 £22.05
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.99% - +12.90%
75th Percentile £44.50 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.77 £76.00 £67.50
England median hourly rate £34.21 £43.63 £22.29
% change year-on-year -21.59% +95.74% -0.58%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Tester in London

Senior Tester
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 Senior Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 16 April 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 +53 5 £500 -13.04%
South London +17 1 £380 -10.59%
Senior Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Tester in the job title.

1 7 (41.18%) SQL
1 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
2 6 (35.29%) QA
3 5 (29.41%) Python
3 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
4 4 (23.53%) C#
4 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
4 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 3 (17.65%) TestComplete
5 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
5 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 3 (17.65%) Oracle
5 3 (17.65%) Back Office
6 2 (11.76%) JMeter
6 2 (11.76%) Finance
6 2 (11.76%) Agile
6 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 2 (11.76%) OpenLink
6 2 (11.76%) Endur
6 2 (11.76%) .NET
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
6 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
6 2 (11.76%) BDD
6 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.76%) Mentoring

Senior 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) GitHub
2 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) TestComplete
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 2 (11.76%) JMeter
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) FitNesse
3 1 (5.88%) Git
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
3 1 (5.88%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
3 1 (5.88%) TestRail
General
1 4 (23.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Back Office
2 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Finance
4 1 (5.88%) Front Office
4 1 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
1 2 (11.76%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
2 1 (5.88%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Test Automation
2 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Data Pipeline
3 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
5 2 (11.76%) Agile
5 2 (11.76%) BDD
5 2 (11.76%) CI/CD
5 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (11.76%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Mentoring
5 2 (11.76%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 2 (11.76%) TDD
6 1 (5.88%) API Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Coaching
6 1 (5.88%) Fintech
6 1 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (5.88%) SDLC
6 1 (5.88%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) Python
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.88%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 2 (11.76%) OpenLink
3 1 (5.88%) Murex