Test Consultant Contracts in London

Test Consultant
England > London

The median Test Consultant daily rate in London is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 339 382 485
Rank change year-on-year +43 +103 +103
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 14 9 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.050% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.054% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 4
10th Percentile - £415 £180
25th Percentile £481 £478 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £563 £465
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% +20.97% +1.92%
75th Percentile £550 £681 £509
90th Percentile £588 £713 £526
England median daily rate £488 £525 £430
% change year-on-year -7.14% +22.09% -1.71%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Consultant in London.

Daily rate trend for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Consultant in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
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 Test Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +3 1 £510 +7.37%
Test Consultant
England

Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Consultant 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 Test Consultant in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (50.00%) Defect Management
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) Dynatrace
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
4 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
4 5 (35.71%) JMeter
4 5 (35.71%) Finance
4 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
4 5 (35.71%) New Relic
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Azure
5 4 (28.57%) AWS
5 4 (28.57%) C#
5 4 (28.57%) Java
5 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 4 (28.57%) Python
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Perfmon
5 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
5 4 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
5 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps

Test Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Aladdin
1 2 (14.29%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (7.14%) SAP ERP
2 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
1 4 (28.57%) Azure
1 4 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.14%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JMeter
1 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
2 4 (28.57%) Serenity BDD
3 3 (21.43%) JIRA
4 1 (7.14%) Gatling
4 1 (7.14%) NeoLoad
4 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (35.71%) Finance
2 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Back Office
3 3 (21.43%) Front Office
4 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 7 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (35.71%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Containerisation
5 4 (28.57%) Microservices
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Engineering
5 4 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (21.43%) Data Integration
6 3 (21.43%) Data Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Functional Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (21.43%) System Integration Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (28.57%) C#
1 4 (28.57%) Java
1 4 (28.57%) JavaScript
1 4 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Perfmon
2 2 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Dynatrace
1 5 (35.71%) New Relic
2 3 (21.43%) Charles River
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) SimCorp
4 1 (7.14%) AppDynamics
4 1 (7.14%) Ariba
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (7.14%) Workday