Tester Contracts in London

Tester
England > London

The median Tester daily rate in London is £450, 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 243 242 253
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +63
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 110 151 267
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.85% 0.99%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.91% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 116 201
10th Percentile £309 £338 £330
25th Percentile £341 £382 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +19.44%
75th Percentile £525 £625 £666
90th Percentile £632 £688 £750
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £50.00 £90.00
Median % change year-on-year - -44.44% +323.53%
England median hourly rate £32.63 £30.15 £72.00
% change year-on-year +8.23% -58.13% +289.19%

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%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Tester in London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in London

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 Tester 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 -4 12 £481 -28.70% 5
West London +21 11 £341 -5.93% 2
South London +7 2 £380 -11.11%
Tester
England

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

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

1 78 (70.91%) Test Automation
2 36 (32.73%) Agile
3 30 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
4 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
5 28 (25.45%) Cypress.io
6 27 (24.55%) QA
7 24 (21.82%) Performance Testing
7 24 (21.82%) Python
8 23 (20.91%) Java
8 23 (20.91%) Manual Testing
9 21 (19.09%) JavaScript
10 20 (18.18%) Selenium
10 20 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
10 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
11 18 (16.36%) Postman
11 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (16.36%) SQL
12 17 (15.45%) Integration Testing
13 16 (14.55%) Test Scripting
13 16 (14.55%) Finance
13 16 (14.55%) Software Testing
13 16 (14.55%) JIRA
14 15 (13.64%) AWS
14 15 (13.64%) DevOps
15 14 (12.73%) Jenkins
15 14 (12.73%) API Testing
16 13 (11.82%) Banking
17 12 (10.91%) Penetration Testing
18 11 (10.00%) Validation

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 6 (5.45%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (4.55%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.64%) Murex MxG2000
3 2 (1.82%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.82%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.91%) Misys Midas
4 1 (0.91%) PeopleSoft Financials
4 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 15 (13.64%) AWS
2 11 (10.00%) Azure
3 10 (9.09%) BrowserStack
4 6 (5.45%) SaaS
5 5 (4.55%) IaaS
5 5 (4.55%) PaaS
6 4 (3.64%) GitHub
7 3 (2.73%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.73%) dbt
7 3 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
7 3 (2.73%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (1.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (1.82%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (1.82%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.91%) GCP
9 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 1 (0.91%) Sauce Labs
9 1 (0.91%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.82%) 802.11
1 2 (1.82%) Bluetooth
1 2 (1.82%) Broadband
1 2 (1.82%) DOCSIS
1 2 (1.82%) SSH
1 2 (1.82%) Wi-Fi
1 2 (1.82%) Wireless
1 2 (1.82%) ZigBee
2 1 (0.91%) Firewall
2 1 (0.91%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.82%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.91%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.91%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.91%) Data Mart
3 1 (0.91%) DB2
3 1 (0.91%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.91%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 28 (25.45%) Cypress.io
2 20 (18.18%) Selenium
3 18 (16.36%) Postman
4 16 (14.55%) JIRA
5 14 (12.73%) Jenkins
6 10 (9.09%) Cucumber
7 9 (8.18%) Appium
7 9 (8.18%) SoapUI
8 7 (6.36%) JMeter
9 5 (4.55%) Git
10 4 (3.64%) HP UFT
10 4 (3.64%) JUnit
10 4 (3.64%) TestComplete
11 3 (2.73%) GitLab
11 3 (2.73%) Gradle
11 3 (2.73%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.82%) Gatling
12 2 (1.82%) Serenity BDD
12 2 (1.82%) SonarQube
12 2 (1.82%) TestRail
General
1 30 (27.27%) Social Skills
2 20 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.55%) Finance
4 13 (11.82%) Banking
5 7 (6.36%) Legal
6 6 (5.45%) Public Sector
7 5 (4.55%) Billing
8 4 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.73%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.73%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.82%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.91%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.91%) Law
11 1 (0.91%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.91%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.36%) HTML
2 6 (5.45%) CSS
2 6 (5.45%) Playwright
2 6 (5.45%) pytest
3 5 (4.55%) .NET
3 5 (4.55%) Kafka
4 4 (3.64%) PySpark
5 3 (2.73%) Puppeteer
5 3 (2.73%) WireMock
6 2 (1.82%) 802.1X
6 2 (1.82%) ADO
6 2 (1.82%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (0.91%) DOM
7 1 (0.91%) jQuery
7 1 (0.91%) Nightwatchjs
7 1 (0.91%) REST
7 1 (0.91%) RESTful
7 1 (0.91%) SOAP
7 1 (0.91%) Spring Boot
7 1 (0.91%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.36%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.55%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (4.55%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 4 (3.64%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.73%) Linux Command Line
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.82%) Operational Technology
5 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.91%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.91%) Derivative
6 1 (0.91%) Equities
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) Online Banking
6 1 (0.91%) PDA
6 1 (0.91%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.91%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.36%) Windows
2 6 (5.45%) Android
2 6 (5.45%) Apple iOS
3 4 (3.64%) Linux
4 1 (0.91%) Unix
4 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (70.91%) Test Automation
2 36 (32.73%) Agile
3 24 (21.82%) Performance Testing
4 23 (20.91%) Manual Testing
5 20 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 18 (16.36%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (15.45%) Integration Testing
8 16 (14.55%) Software Testing
8 16 (14.55%) Test Scripting
9 15 (13.64%) DevOps
10 14 (12.73%) API Testing
11 12 (10.91%) Penetration Testing
12 11 (10.00%) Validation
13 10 (9.09%) Mentoring
14 9 (8.18%) Computer Science
14 9 (8.18%) End-to-End Testing
14 9 (8.18%) Regression Testing
14 9 (8.18%) Scrum
14 9 (8.18%) System Integration Testing
14 9 (8.18%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (21.82%) Python
2 23 (20.91%) Java
3 21 (19.09%) JavaScript
4 18 (16.36%) SQL
5 7 (6.36%) C#
5 7 (6.36%) TypeScript
6 5 (4.55%) PHP
6 5 (4.55%) Ruby
7 3 (2.73%) Bash
8 2 (1.82%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.91%) ABAP
9 1 (0.91%) RPG
9 1 (0.91%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 29 (26.36%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.09%) Degree
4 9 (8.18%) OSCP
5 7 (6.36%) CEH
6 6 (5.45%) CREST Certified
7 5 (4.55%) CCSAS
7 5 (4.55%) GIAC
7 5 (4.55%) GPEN
7 5 (4.55%) GWAPT
8 4 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.82%) ISTQB
10 1 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (0.91%) CISSP
10 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (24.55%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.82%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.82%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.82%) NIST
4 1 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.91%) SEPA
4 1 (0.91%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.91%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.73%) Kibana
2 2 (1.82%) Perfmon
3 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.91%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.91%) Nessus
Vendors
1 10 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.36%) Murex
3 4 (3.64%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.64%) Reuters
4 3 (2.73%) Oracle
4 3 (2.73%) SAP
5 2 (1.82%) Google
5 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.82%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.82%) Splunk
5 2 (1.82%) Virgin Media
5 2 (1.82%) Workday
6 1 (0.91%) Apple
6 1 (0.91%) Avaloq
6 1 (0.91%) HP
6 1 (0.91%) PeopleSoft