Test Leader Contracts in London

Test Lead
England > London

The median Test Lead daily rate in London is £475, 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 308 331 393
Rank change year-on-year +23 +62 +54
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 45 60 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.34% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.36% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 45 69
10th Percentile £400 £422 £387
25th Percentile £409 £500 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £625 £650
90th Percentile £1,125 £712 £712
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £52.00
England median hourly rate - - £36.86
% change year-on-year - - +44.55%

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 Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
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 Leader 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 0 3 £550 -4.35% 6
South London - 1 £413 -
Test Leader
England

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

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

1 19 (42.22%) Test Strategy
2 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
3 15 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
5 12 (26.67%) Agile
5 12 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 12 (26.67%) QA
6 10 (22.22%) DevOps
7 9 (20.00%) API Testing
8 8 (17.78%) Defect Management
8 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.56%) Test Planning
9 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
9 7 (15.56%) Waterfall
10 6 (13.33%) Performance Testing
10 6 (13.33%) Test Management
10 6 (13.33%) JIRA
10 6 (13.33%) Banking
10 6 (13.33%) Finance
10 6 (13.33%) JMeter
10 6 (13.33%) SAP
11 5 (11.11%) HP
11 5 (11.11%) Test Scripting
11 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
11 5 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
11 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
11 5 (11.11%) HP ALM
11 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
12 4 (8.89%) Test Assurance

Test Leader 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 (2.22%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 5 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) Aladdin
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Kondor
2 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (8.89%) AWS
1 4 (8.89%) Azure
1 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (4.44%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (4.44%) Twilio
3 1 (2.22%) BrowserStack
3 1 (2.22%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.67%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
2 1 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.22%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 6 (13.33%) JIRA
1 6 (13.33%) JMeter
2 3 (6.67%) Postman
3 2 (4.44%) Cypress.io
3 2 (4.44%) LoadRunner
3 2 (4.44%) Selenium
3 2 (4.44%) Zephyr
4 1 (2.22%) Appium
4 1 (2.22%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.22%) Gatling
4 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.22%) Pa11y
4 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
4 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
4 1 (2.22%) TestRail
General
1 17 (37.78%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.33%) Banking
2 6 (13.33%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Public Sector
4 4 (8.89%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Front Office
6 2 (4.44%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.22%) Law
7 1 (2.22%) Legal
7 1 (2.22%) Local Government
7 1 (2.22%) Police
7 1 (2.22%) Private Banking
7 1 (2.22%) Publishing
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) Kafka
1 3 (6.67%) PySpark
2 1 (2.22%) ADO
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.22%) Playwright
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.89%) FMCG
2 1 (2.22%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.22%) Online Banking
2 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.22%) Linux
1 1 (2.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (42.22%) Test Strategy
2 15 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
4 12 (26.67%) Agile
4 12 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 10 (22.22%) DevOps
6 9 (20.00%) API Testing
7 8 (17.78%) Defect Management
7 8 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (15.56%) Test Planning
8 7 (15.56%) Waterfall
9 6 (13.33%) Performance Testing
9 6 (13.33%) Test Management
10 5 (11.11%) CI/CD
10 5 (11.11%) Test Scripting
11 4 (8.89%) Collaborative Culture
11 4 (8.89%) End-to-End Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Scenario Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.44%) Groovy
1 2 (4.44%) Java
1 2 (4.44%) Python
1 2 (4.44%) SQL
2 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
4 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.22%) ISEB
4 1 (2.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.22%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 5 (11.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (13.33%) SAP
2 5 (11.11%) HP
3 4 (8.89%) Microsoft
4 3 (6.67%) Charles River
4 3 (6.67%) Salesforce
4 3 (6.67%) StreamSets
5 2 (4.44%) Avaya
5 2 (4.44%) Calypso
5 2 (4.44%) Google
5 2 (4.44%) Oracle
6 1 (2.22%) Apple
6 1 (2.22%) Concur
6 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
6 1 (2.22%) ServiceNow