Test Leader Contracts in the Midlands

Test Lead
England > Midlands

The median Test Lead daily rate in the Midlands is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 125 147 173
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 -32
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 9 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.33% 0.47% 0.44%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% 0.49% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 16
10th Percentile £373 £480 £396
25th Percentile £394 £500 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £463
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +13.51% +24.16%
75th Percentile £468 £743 £531
90th Percentile £508 - £575
England median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,513 3,238 4,812
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.92% 94.62% 95.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,699 2,280 3,523
10th Percentile £213 £220 £208
25th Percentile £325 £363 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year -2.53% +3.26% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 127 172
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.30 £10.52
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.17 £14.24
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.38
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.07% +14.42%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.25 £22.03
90th Percentile £52.78 £60.50 £34.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.05% +95.56% +2.27%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the Midlands

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in the Midlands

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in the Midlands over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in the Midlands

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in the Midlands

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 5 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
West Midlands +15 6 £425 -17.07% 4
East Midlands +16 3 £395 -46.84% 1
Test Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, 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 Midlands region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
3 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (11.11%) Cost Optimisation
4 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Load Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) RAML
4 1 (11.11%) Swagger
4 1 (11.11%) Grafana
4 1 (11.11%) Conflict Management
4 1 (11.11%) Order to Cash
4 1 (11.11%) Source to Pay
4 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Cash Management
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Payables
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Receivables
1 1 (11.11%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Selenium
1 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 3 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OpenAPI
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (11.11%) RAML
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
3 1 (11.11%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Time Management
3 1 (11.11%) Usability Testing
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) ProC
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
1 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (11.11%) NVQ Level 3
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Pega