TestRail Contract Job Trends in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring TestRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 196 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - +56
Contract jobs citing TestRail 15 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.32% - 0.11%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.67% - 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 5
10th Percentile £268 - -
25th Percentile £289 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £372 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.30%
75th Percentile £468 - -
90th Percentile £525 - £485
England median daily rate £400 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
North of England

TestRail falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 897 522 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 18.98% 14.53% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 653 332 434
10th Percentile £325 £325 £352
25th Percentile £390 £389 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -5.50% -8.26%
75th Percentile £541 £573 £597
90th Percentile £637 £650 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 11 40
10th Percentile £39.00 - £45.88
25th Percentile £43.26 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +19.10% - -1.33%
75th Percentile £65.13 £53.13 £64.06
90th Percentile £72.98 £77.50 £78.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

TestRail job vacancy trend in the North of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

TestRail
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail in the North of England over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in the North of England

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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 TestRail within the North of England region over the 6 months to 19 December 2025. 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 - 9 £419 - 5
North East - 3 £438 -
North West - 3 £270 - 1
TestRail
England

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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 8 (53.33%) Azure
2 5 (33.33%) AWS
2 5 (33.33%) GCP
2 5 (33.33%) SaaS
3 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub
3 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (40.00%) MySQL
1 6 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (93.33%) JIRA
2 10 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 10 (66.67%) Selenium
3 9 (60.00%) Postman
4 8 (53.33%) Jenkins
5 6 (40.00%) REST Assured
6 5 (33.33%) GitLab
7 3 (20.00%) Zephyr
8 2 (13.33%) Gatling
8 2 (13.33%) Git
8 2 (13.33%) JMeter
8 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
9 1 (6.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Test Automation Engineer
1 7 (46.67%) Test Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Tester
3 5 (33.33%) Lead
4 4 (26.67%) Automation Test Lead
5 3 (20.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 3 (20.00%) UAT Tester
6 2 (13.33%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
7 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
7 1 (6.67%) Manual Tester
7 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (46.67%) REST
2 6 (40.00%) .NET
3 5 (33.33%) LDAP
3 5 (33.33%) OpenID
3 5 (33.33%) SailPoint
4 2 (13.33%) Gherkin
4 2 (13.33%) JSON
4 2 (13.33%) Playwright
4 2 (13.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) API Testing
1 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 9 (60.00%) BDD
3 9 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 9 (60.00%) Test Management
3 9 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (53.33%) DevOps
4 8 (53.33%) Scenario Testing
5 7 (46.67%) Agile
5 7 (46.67%) Manual Testing
5 7 (46.67%) Test Strategy
6 6 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (40.00%) SDLC
6 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 6 (40.00%) TDD
7 5 (33.33%) Data Ingestion
7 5 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
7 5 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 5 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (66.67%) Java
2 8 (53.33%) Python
3 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (40.00%) PHP
4 6 (40.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) C#
5 2 (13.33%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (13.33%) Degree
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
1 2 (13.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (60.00%) QA
2 2 (13.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 3 (20.00%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft