Test Leader Contracts in Northampton

Test Lead
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Test Lead daily rate in Northampton is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 23 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 1.60% 0.75% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.77% 0.78% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 £393 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £435 -
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% - -
75th Percentile £475 £478 -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £450 £435 -
% change year-on-year +3.45% - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Northampton. 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 Northampton with a recognized job title 113 129 127
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.40% 96.99% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 100 98
10th Percentile £266 £350 £205
25th Percentile £358 £356 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £400
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +11.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £500
90th Percentile £556 £622 £575
Northamptonshire median daily rate £420 £428 £400
% change year-on-year -1.75% +6.88% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 2
10th Percentile - - £14.93
25th Percentile £13.75 - £15.55
Median hourly rate £14.50 £14.00 £16.90
Median % change year-on-year +3.57% -17.16% +24.13%
75th Percentile £15.25 - £18.57
90th Percentile - £35.75 £19.38
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £32.25 £14.00 £19.02
% change year-on-year +130.36% -26.37% -17.33%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northampton.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in Northampton

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in Northampton.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in Northampton

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Northampton region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Web Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Nintex
1 2 (100.00%) Robotic Process Automation
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) BrowserStack
1 2 (100.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Data Pipeline
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Robotic Process Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Web Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Nintex