Tester Contract Job Trends in Middlesbrough

Tester
North Yorkshire > Middlesbrough

The median Tester daily rate in Middlesbrough is £345, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Middlesbrough 20.00% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 22.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £321 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £345 - -
75th Percentile £371 - -
90th Percentile £381 - -
North Yorkshire median daily rate £315 - £440

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Middlesbrough

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Middlesbrough. 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 Middlesbrough with a recognized job title 9 8 21
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 100.00% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 18
10th Percentile £175 £196 £129
25th Percentile £191 £275 £132
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £258 £500 £278
Median % change year-on-year -48.35% +80.18% +20.65%
75th Percentile £371 - £397
90th Percentile £428 £525 £440
North Yorkshire median daily rate £260 £350 £400
% change year-on-year -25.71% -12.50% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £19.71 - £14.10
25th Percentile £21.75 £37.50 £14.91
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +128.57% +14.75%
75th Percentile £27.72 £42.50 £31.63
90th Percentile £29.26 - £39.35
North Yorkshire median hourly rate £23.83 £17.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +36.14% -20.45% +23.32%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Middlesbrough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Middlesbrough.

Tester job vacancy trend in Middlesbrough

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Middlesbrough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Middlesbrough.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Middlesbrough

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesbrough

For the 6 months to 1 November 2025, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Middlesbrough region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Python

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Middlesbrough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
1 2 (100.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) API Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft