Smoke Testing Contracts in London

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Smoke Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Smoke Testing over the 6 months leading up to 24 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 391 472
Rank change year-on-year +34 +81 +130
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 5 2 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.037% 0.012% 0.020%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.013% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £336 £412 £528
25th Percentile £379 £430 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £469 £543
Median % change year-on-year -3.79% -13.59% +27.65%
75th Percentile - £517 £591
90th Percentile - £541 £619
England median daily rate £451 £400 £535
% change year-on-year +12.75% -25.23% +18.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

Smoke 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 12,529 14,868 22,485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.18% 88.87% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,384 10,560 16,328
10th Percentile £329 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 238 251
10th Percentile £16.50 £16.00 £18.50
25th Percentile £24.62 £21.13 £23.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -18.07% +16.90%
75th Percentile £49.81 £53.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £71.25 £82.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +65.38%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in London

Smoke Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Smoke Testing in London

Smoke Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smoke Testing in London over the 6 months to 24 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Smoke Testing in London

Smoke 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 Smoke Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 24 July 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
West London - 2 £315 -
Central London +1 1 - -
Smoke Testing
England

Smoke 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (20.00%) Product Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Defect Management
2 3 (60.00%) Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (60.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) SAP