Tester Contracts in Northampton

Tester
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The median Tester daily rate in Northampton is £390 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 21 - 25
Rank change year-on-year - - 0
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 4.11% - 3.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 4.23% - 3.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 6
10th Percentile £334 - £347
25th Percentile £348 - £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £390 - £360
Median % change year-on-year - - +24.14%
75th Percentile £420 - £364
90th Percentile £434 - £379
Northamptonshire median daily rate £390 - £360
% change year-on-year - - +0.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northampton

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 142 122 208
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.26% 92.42% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 94 178
10th Percentile £353 £189 £224
25th Percentile £358 £300 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.25% -11.11% +13.92%
75th Percentile £577 £500 £503
90th Percentile £620 £606 £567
Northamptonshire median daily rate £430 £400 £450
% change year-on-year +7.50% -11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 9
10th Percentile - £14.93 £9.75
25th Percentile - £15.55 £10.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £16.90 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.16% +25.19% -70.00%
75th Percentile - £18.57 £13.75
90th Percentile £35.75 £19.38 £23.30
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £14.00 £19.02 £27.50
% change year-on-year -26.37% -30.85% -38.89%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Northampton

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Northampton

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Tester 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 Tester in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 6 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
3 4 (66.67%) Functional Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Webhook
5 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (16.67%) Postman
5 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
5 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
5 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Azure
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle
5 1 (16.67%) AIX
5 1 (16.67%) Legal
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (16.67%) JSON

Tester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 6 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (83.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Test Strategy
2 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Functional Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) QA Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 1 (16.67%) Webhook
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle