Exploratory Testing Contracts in Nottinghamshire

Exploratory Testing
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 1.42% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £441 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 - -
75th Percentile £506 - -
90th Percentile £516 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £476 £400 -
% change year-on-year +19.06% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

Exploratory Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Nottinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 124 130 224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 87.94% 81.76% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 65 187
10th Percentile £333 £255 £304
25th Percentile £410 £350 £443
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +10.53%
75th Percentile £530 £575 £700
90th Percentile £565 £678 £743
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 15 11
10th Percentile - £12.02 £11.00
25th Percentile - £12.75 £11.80
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.27 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -28.65% +47.28%
75th Percentile - £17.32 £24.37
90th Percentile £15.88 £23.10 £28.50
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Nottinghamshire

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Nottinghamshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in Nottinghamshire.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in Nottinghamshire

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Nottingham - 2 £476 - 3
Exploratory Testing
East Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA