Tester Contracts in Milton Keynes

Tester
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The median Tester daily rate in Milton Keynes is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 45 68 68
Rank change year-on-year +23 0 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 0.51% 0.41% 1.00%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.45% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £363 £294
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +26.67% +7.14% +16.67%
75th Percentile £488 £388 -
90th Percentile - - £388
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £530 £350
% change year-on-year -10.38% +51.43% +16.67%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Milton Keynes

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes. 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 Milton Keynes with a recognized job title 368 674 684
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.16% 92.97% 97.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 550 537
10th Percentile £261 £309 £205
25th Percentile £400 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £575
90th Percentile £694 £650 £650
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 3 37
10th Percentile £15.85 £10.23 £10.54
25th Percentile £17.91 £11.33 £10.77
Median hourly rate £22.55 £13.16 £11.62
Median % change year-on-year +71.35% +13.25% -10.62%
75th Percentile £27.75 £15.96 £14.05
90th Percentile £48.75 £17.63 £21.90
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £23.22 £17.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year +32.66% +40.00% -7.41%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Milton Keynes

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Milton Keynes

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Milton Keynes

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 Milton Keynes region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) JMeter
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TestNG
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Playwright

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Appium
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) JUnit
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (50.00%) TestNG
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
2 1 (50.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA