Test Consultant Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Test Consultant
England > North of England

The median Test Consultant daily rate in the North of England is £426, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 250 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 5 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.069% - 0.022%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% - 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £339 - -
25th Percentile £380 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £426 - £375
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £500 - £388
90th Percentile £545 - -
England median daily rate £550 £488 £563
% change year-on-year +12.82% -13.33% +25.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 6,638 3,538 4,146
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.89% 92.74% 92.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,864 2,292 2,562
10th Percentile £313 £253 £263
25th Percentile £403 £375 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £465 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.38% -4.62% -2.50%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £645 £656
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 224 356
10th Percentile £17.25 £12.82 £11.47
25th Percentile £25.49 £17.29 £15.00
Median hourly rate £45.56 £22.45 £25.15
Median % change year-on-year +102.96% -10.76% +11.78%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.12 £48.19
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.55 £69.88
England median hourly rate £45.56 £27.40 £42.50
% change year-on-year +66.26% -35.53% -3.53%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Test Consultant job vacancy trend in the North of England

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the North of England

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant in the North of England over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in the North of England

Test Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the North of England

Test Consultant
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 Test Consultant 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 £402 -
North East - 1 £450 -
Test Consultant
England

Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 21 July 2026, Test Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Test Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Playwright
2 2 (40.00%) Postman
2 2 (40.00%) QA
2 2 (40.00%) REST
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
2 2 (40.00%) TestRail
2 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
3 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working

Test Consultant Skill Set
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 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub
1 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
1 2 (40.00%) Postman
1 2 (40.00%) TestRail
1 2 (40.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
1 2 (40.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (20.00%) Synthetic Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) DevOps
1 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Actionable Insight
2 2 (40.00%) API Testing
2 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (40.00%) Data-Driven Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 1 (20.00%) Build Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (20.00%) AppDynamics
2 1 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (20.00%) Splunk