Test Leader Contract Job Trends in North Yorkshire

Test Lead
Yorkshire > North Yorkshire

The median Test Lead daily rate in North Yorkshire is £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 October 2025.

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

6 months to
29 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in North Yorkshire 1.15% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - -
75th Percentile £469 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £488 £550
% change year-on-year +2.56% -11.36% +12.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in North Yorkshire. 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 North Yorkshire with a recognized job title 69 112 152
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 79.31% 90.32% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 50 110
10th Percentile £120 £176 £162
25th Percentile £153 £214 £191
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year -17.86% -12.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £488
90th Percentile £623 £702 £613
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 10
10th Percentile £17.74 £15.65 £15.98
25th Percentile £18.39 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £20.69 £17.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.20% -20.45% +23.32%
75th Percentile £25.14 £18.75 £29.63
90th Percentile £32.24 £42.50 £44.05
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.04 £22.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year +11.28% +5.58% +6.55%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in North Yorkshire

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

Test Leader job vacancy trend in North Yorkshire

Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in North Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in North Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in North Yorkshire

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in North Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the North Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 29 October 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
Middlesbrough - 1 £463 -
Test Leader
Yorkshire

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 29 October 2025, Test Leader 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 Yorkshire region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in North Yorkshire 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft