Test Harness Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Test Harness
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Test Harness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 258 186 -
Rank change year-on-year -72 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Harness 3 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.040% 0.075% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.084% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £575 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £81.00 -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £81.00 -
% change year-on-year -13.58% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Test Harness 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 6,314 3,577 3,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.20% 89.05% 84.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,727 2,308 2,082
10th Percentile £313 £268 £313
25th Percentile £405 £375 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -7.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £556 £585
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 519 206 208
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.10 £11.66
25th Percentile £21.33 £17.44 £15.13
Median hourly rate £43.96 £22.63 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year +94.26% -29.28% +15.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £43.39 £51.22
90th Percentile £77.50 £71.98 £69.05
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Test Harness job vacancy trend in the North of England

Test Harness
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Test Harness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Test Harness

Test Harness
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Test Harness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Test Harness

Test Harness
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 Harness within the North of England region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Test Harness
England

Test Harness
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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure AI
1 3 (100.00%) Copilot Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 3 (100.00%) Power Platform
1 3 (100.00%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Metadata
General
1 3 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Law
1 3 (100.00%) Social Science
1 3 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
1 3 (100.00%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Business Case
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 3 (100.00%) Commercial Awareness
1 3 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (100.00%) Data Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) LLM
1 3 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 3 (100.00%) Observability
1 3 (100.00%) Prototyping
1 3 (100.00%) Rapid Prototyping
1 3 (100.00%) Risk Management
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
1 3 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 42001
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Foundry
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft