Tester Contracts in the North East

Tester
England > North East

The median Tester daily rate in the North East is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 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
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 39 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 +9 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 3 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.88% 4.72% 1.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 4.82% 1.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 18 5
10th Percentile £368 £350 £353
25th Percentile £455 £364 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.35% -3.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £573 £588
90th Percentile £640 £576 £595
England median daily rate £450 £500 £438
% change year-on-year -10.00% +14.29% +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North East. 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 North East with a recognized job title 307 415 498
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.29% 97.88% 97.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 320 394
10th Percentile £190 £231 £147
25th Percentile £363 £400 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £539 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.83% +13.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £575
90th Percentile £650 £720 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 2 17
10th Percentile £10.42 £32.98 £12.16
25th Percentile £11.50 £35.56 £14.00
Median hourly rate £13.99 £40.75 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -65.67% +139.71% +19.03%
75th Percentile £34.50 £45.56 £19.91
90th Percentile £50.00 £47.93 £46.15
England median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.09% +100.00% +0.36%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the North East

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Tester in the North East

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the North East over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the North East

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the North East

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the North East region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Tyne and Wear +5 3 £600 +20.00% 1
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East

For the 6 months to 29 April 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 North East region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
2 2 (66.67%) CEH
2 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) C++
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) GIAC
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) GPEN
2 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
2 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 2 (66.67%) Red Team
2 2 (66.67%) Application Security
2 2 (66.67%) Offensive Security
2 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Jest
3 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
3 1 (33.33%) Docker
3 1 (33.33%) GitLab

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JUnit
1 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Legal
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mobile App
1 2 (66.67%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Application Security
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Ethical Hacking
1 2 (66.67%) Offensive Security
1 2 (66.67%) Penetration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Red Team
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C++
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) CEH
2 2 (66.67%) CREST Certified
2 2 (66.67%) GIAC
2 2 (66.67%) GPEN
2 2 (66.67%) OSCP
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) NIST
2 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Docker