Scalability Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Scalability Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Scalability Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Scalability Testing 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.017% - 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.020% - 0.048%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £450 - £563
% change year-on-year - - +12.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Scalability 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 4,959 2,947 4,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 86.35% 90.18% 86.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,217 1,865 2,600
10th Percentile £270 £263 £283
25th Percentile £381 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% -1.00%
75th Percentile £550 £570 £582
90th Percentile £644 £650 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 155 363
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.00 £11.01
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.60 £12.58
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.75 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +56.52% +59.72% -37.93%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £44.74
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £52.78
England median hourly rate £32.50 £34.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -4.41% +4.62% -13.33%

Scalability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Scalability Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Scalability Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scalability Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Scalability Testing

Scalability 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 Scalability Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 22 March 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 - 1 - -
Scalability Testing
England

Scalability 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Angular Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Software Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA