Data-Driven Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Data-Driven Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.069% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.082% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £301 - -
25th Percentile £303 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £328 - -
90th Percentile £334 - -
England median daily rate £415 £569 £625
% change year-on-year -27.03% -9.00% +5.26%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Data-Driven Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,066 3,382 3,770
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.97% 88.65% 84.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,618 2,162 2,277
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £470 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -5.05% -1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £562 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £665
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 455 200 308
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.35
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.47 £13.19
Median hourly rate £45.00 £22.63 £22.69
Median % change year-on-year +98.85% -0.25% -16.59%
75th Percentile £71.70 £44.78 £46.18
90th Percentile £83.55 £72.50 £66.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data-Driven Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Data-Driven Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Data-Driven Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data-Driven Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Data-Driven Testing

Data-Driven Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 21 July 2026. 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
North West - 4 £313 -
North East - 1 - -
Data-Driven Testing
England

Data-Driven Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub Actions
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (20.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (20.00%) Kong
3 1 (20.00%) Serverless
3 1 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Jenkins
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) TestRail
1 3 (60.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Test Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Salesforce Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
1 3 (60.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Kafka
2 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) AI
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Coaching
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) ETL
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce