Tester Contracts in Northamptonshire

Tester
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The median Tester daily rate in Northamptonshire is £390 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 - 39
Rank change year-on-year - - -11
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 6 0 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 3.11% - 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.28% - 1.94%
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 - - +0.70%
75th Percentile £420 - £364
90th Percentile £434 - £379
East Midlands median daily rate £380 £380 £370
% change year-on-year - +2.70% -15.43%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northamptonshire

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire. 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 Northamptonshire with a recognized job title 183 220 361
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.82% 91.67% 95.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 173 280
10th Percentile £295 £205 £185
25th Percentile £356 £300 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £388 £450
Median % change year-on-year +11.61% -13.89% +20.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £515
90th Percentile £621 £569 £575
East Midlands median daily rate £415 £450 £425
% change year-on-year -7.78% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 31
10th Percentile £10.90 £14.19 £10.50
25th Percentile £12.37 £17.82 £15.53
Median hourly rate £14.00 £19.02 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.37% -17.33% -48.89%
75th Percentile £35.00 £26.33 £35.00
90th Percentile £57.88 £35.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.50 £20.40 £17.29
% change year-on-year -14.22% +17.97% +17.64%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Northamptonshire

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Northamptonshire

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Northamptonshire

Tester
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 26 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
Northampton - 6 £390 -
Tester
East Midlands

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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