Test Leader Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Test Lead
West Midlands > Shropshire

As of 7 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Lead daily rate in Shropshire.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 - 13
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.49% - 5.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% - 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £410
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.09%
75th Percentile - - £433
90th Percentile - - £443
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £400 £488
% change year-on-year - -17.95% +11.05%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Shropshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Shropshire. 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 Shropshire with a recognized job title 184 84 54
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.32% 85.71% 98.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 69 33
10th Percentile £325 £176 £219
25th Percentile £402 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.68% -1.05% -7.95%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £525
90th Percentile £541 £567 £585
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £12.21 - -
Median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.85% - -
75th Percentile £28.87 - -
90th Percentile £35.56 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £22.05 £22.65
% change year-on-year +14.08% -2.65% +26.79%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire.

Test Leader job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Shropshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Shropshire

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Telford - 1 - -
Test Leader
West Midlands

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire

For the 6 months to 7 October 2025, Test Leader contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Shropshire region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk