Volume Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Volume Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Volume Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 210 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Volume Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.042% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £520 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 - -
75th Percentile £560 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £413 £400
% change year-on-year +39.39% +3.13% -27.27%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

Volume 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 4,245 2,932 4,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.13% 87.73% 87.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,808 1,678 2,691
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £593
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 134 209
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.73 £17.08 £17.14
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.13 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.88% -22.50% +53.14%
75th Percentile £56.17 £46.18 £46.91
90th Percentile £68.67 £67.45 £64.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Volume Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Volume Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Volume Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Volume 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 Volume Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 January 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 - 2 £540 - 5
Volume Testing
England

Volume 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Gatling
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 2 (100.00%) NeoLoad
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) OpenID
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Ingestion
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (100.00%) GitOps
1 2 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 2 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) RBAC
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Cypher
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) Google