Agile Testing Contracts in the North West

Agile Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 137 - 182
Rank change year-on-year - - -39
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.036% - 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.042% - 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £339
25th Percentile - - £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £433
Median % change year-on-year - - +23.57%
75th Percentile - - £491
90th Percentile - - £527
England median daily rate £580 £450 £483
% change year-on-year +28.89% -6.74% +28.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Agile Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the North West

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in the North West

Agile Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 19 April 2024. 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
Manchester - 1 - - 2
Agile Testing
England

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Deployment Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Task Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL