Tester Contracts in London

Tester
England > London

The median Tester daily rate in London is £478 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 May 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 249 322
Rank change year-on-year -5 +73 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 148 257 306
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.85% 1.00% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 1.05% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 193 224
10th Percentile £334 £325 £300
25th Percentile £382 £438 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -13.18% +22.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £591 £666 £550
90th Percentile £711 £788 £638
England median daily rate £456 £497 £438
% change year-on-year -8.11% +13.49% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 14
10th Percentile - - £15.23
25th Percentile - - £15.88
Median hourly rate £50.00 £90.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +414.29% -
75th Percentile - - £33.25
90th Percentile - - £53.68
England median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £17.75
% change year-on-year -58.13% +305.63% -60.56%

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 16,270 24,463 36,811
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.17% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,767 17,781 26,982
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 316 283 436
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.97
Median hourly rate £27.25 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.31% +2.86% +14.01%
75th Percentile £44.00 £63.22 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.52 £82.50 £67.08
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +5.80%

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 22 May 2024.

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 22 May 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 +48 25 £538 +2.38% 7
West London +16 2 £363 -27.50% 3
South London +10 2 £428 +6.81%
East London -3 2 £340 -15.00%
North London - 1 £385 -
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 May 2024, 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 87 (58.78%) Test Automation
2 52 (35.14%) Agile
3 41 (27.70%) QA
4 34 (22.97%) Java
4 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
5 30 (20.27%) Python
6 29 (19.59%) JIRA
7 28 (18.92%) Banking
8 27 (18.24%) Software Testing
8 27 (18.24%) Scenario Testing
9 26 (17.57%) SQL
10 23 (15.54%) Scrum
10 23 (15.54%) Azure
11 22 (14.86%) BDD
11 22 (14.86%) Performance Testing
12 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
12 21 (14.19%) DevOps
12 21 (14.19%) C#
13 20 (13.51%) Selenium
13 20 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (13.51%) CI/CD
14 19 (12.84%) Finance
15 18 (12.16%) JavaScript
15 18 (12.16%) Regression Testing
15 18 (12.16%) Test Management
15 18 (12.16%) Manual Testing
15 18 (12.16%) Cucumber
15 18 (12.16%) AWS
15 18 (12.16%) Test Strategy
16 16 (10.81%) End-to-End Testing

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 10 (6.76%) Confluence
2 2 (1.35%) Apache
2 2 (1.35%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.35%) CMS
2 2 (1.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (2.03%) Windchill
2 2 (1.35%) Mingle
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.68%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.38%) Endur
2 3 (2.03%) ENOVIA
2 3 (2.03%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (15.54%) Azure
2 18 (12.16%) AWS
3 12 (8.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (4.05%) BrowserStack
4 6 (4.05%) Firebase
5 5 (3.38%) BlazeMeter
5 5 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.70%) GCP
6 4 (2.70%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 4 (2.70%) Serverless
7 3 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
7 3 (2.03%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.03%) GitHub
8 2 (1.35%) SaaS
8 2 (1.35%) Sentry
9 1 (0.68%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.68%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.68%) Datadog
9 1 (0.68%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.68%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.70%) Internet
2 2 (1.35%) BGP
2 2 (1.35%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.35%) HTTP
2 2 (1.35%) MPLS
2 2 (1.35%) VPN
3 1 (0.68%) Network Security
3 1 (0.68%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.68%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.68%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (2.70%) Power BI
3 3 (2.03%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (1.35%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.68%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.68%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.68%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.68%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 29 (19.59%) JIRA
2 20 (13.51%) Selenium
3 18 (12.16%) Cucumber
4 16 (10.81%) Postman
5 15 (10.14%) JMeter
5 15 (10.14%) SpecFlow
6 14 (9.46%) Cypress.io
6 14 (9.46%) Jenkins
7 10 (6.76%) Appium
7 10 (6.76%) GitLab
8 9 (6.08%) Git
9 8 (5.41%) TestRail
10 6 (4.05%) FitNesse
10 6 (4.05%) SoapUI
10 6 (4.05%) WebDriver
11 5 (3.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (2.70%) REST Assured
12 4 (2.70%) TestComplete
13 3 (2.03%) Katalon Studio
13 3 (2.03%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 34 (22.97%) Social Skills
2 28 (18.92%) Banking
3 19 (12.84%) Finance
4 15 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.46%) Back Office
5 14 (9.46%) Public Sector
6 11 (7.43%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.76%) Front Office
8 7 (4.73%) Prime Brokerage
9 5 (3.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 5 (3.38%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.35%) Retail
11 1 (0.68%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.68%) Billing
11 1 (0.68%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (8.11%) ADO
2 10 (6.76%) REST
3 7 (4.73%) Gherkin
4 6 (4.05%) Middleware
4 6 (4.05%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (3.38%) .NET
5 5 (3.38%) AngularJS
5 5 (3.38%) Playwright
6 4 (2.70%) JSON
6 4 (2.70%) Web Services
6 4 (2.70%) XML
7 3 (2.03%) CSS
7 3 (2.03%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (2.03%) pytest
8 2 (1.35%) .NET Framework
8 2 (1.35%) HTML
8 2 (1.35%) Jest
8 2 (1.35%) NETCONF
8 2 (1.35%) React
8 2 (1.35%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.41%) Equities
1 8 (5.41%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
3 4 (2.70%) Hedge funds
4 3 (2.03%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.03%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.35%) Cloud Native
5 2 (1.35%) Derivative
6 1 (0.68%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.68%) Embedded Systems
6 1 (0.68%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.68%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.68%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.68%) Robotics
6 1 (0.68%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.68%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.38%) Android
1 5 (3.38%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.70%) Unix
3 1 (0.68%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (58.78%) Test Automation
2 52 (35.14%) Agile
3 27 (18.24%) Scenario Testing
3 27 (18.24%) Software Testing
4 23 (15.54%) Scrum
5 22 (14.86%) BDD
5 22 (14.86%) Performance Testing
6 21 (14.19%) DevOps
7 20 (13.51%) CI/CD
7 20 (13.51%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (12.16%) Manual Testing
8 18 (12.16%) Regression Testing
8 18 (12.16%) Test Management
8 18 (12.16%) Test Strategy
9 16 (10.81%) End-to-End Testing
10 15 (10.14%) API Testing
10 15 (10.14%) Test Planning
10 15 (10.14%) Test Scripting
10 15 (10.14%) Validation
11 14 (9.46%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (22.97%) Java
2 30 (20.27%) Python
3 26 (17.57%) SQL
4 21 (14.19%) C#
5 18 (12.16%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.43%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.03%) Kotlin
7 3 (2.03%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.03%) Shell Script
7 3 (2.03%) Swift
8 2 (1.35%) Bash
8 2 (1.35%) C
8 2 (1.35%) C++
8 2 (1.35%) Perl
8 2 (1.35%) Ruby
9 1 (0.68%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 21 (14.19%) Security Cleared
2 15 (10.14%) Degree
3 13 (8.78%) SC Cleared
4 9 (6.08%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (4.05%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.70%) CREST Certified
8 3 (2.03%) Master's Degree
8 3 (2.03%) OSCP
9 2 (1.35%) CEH
10 1 (0.68%) CCNA
10 1 (0.68%) CHECK Team Leader
10 1 (0.68%) CHECK Team Member
10 1 (0.68%) CISSP
10 1 (0.68%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (0.68%) ECSA
10 1 (0.68%) GPEN
10 1 (0.68%) ISEB
10 1 (0.68%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (27.70%) QA
2 9 (6.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.35%) WCAG
4 1 (0.68%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.68%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (2.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (3.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.68%) Grafana
2 1 (0.68%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.68%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 8 (5.41%) Oracle
2 7 (4.73%) Microsoft
3 6 (4.05%) Splunk
4 5 (3.38%) Google
5 3 (2.03%) Adobe
5 3 (2.03%) PTC
5 3 (2.03%) Qualtrics
5 3 (2.03%) Salesforce
5 3 (2.03%) Siemens
6 2 (1.35%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.35%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.35%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.35%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.68%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.68%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.68%) Cisco
7 1 (0.68%) HP
7 1 (0.68%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.68%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.68%) SAP