Data-Driven Testing Contract Job Trends in the South East

Data-Driven Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 - 177
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 2 0 9
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.030% - 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £268 - £550
25th Percentile £273 - £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £283 - £636
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.30%
75th Percentile £290 - £662
90th Percentile £293 - £670
England median daily rate £415 £520 £636
% change year-on-year -20.19% -18.27% +7.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Data-Driven 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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,413 3,142 4,182
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 81.11% 90.21% 82.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,373 1,961 2,521
10th Percentile £280 £250 £262
25th Percentile £413 £400 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% +0.39%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 565 280 338
10th Percentile £15.26 £13.50 £14.85
25th Percentile £25.72 £15.13 £23.06
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.99 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +150.17% -61.67% +14.70%
75th Percentile £81.05 £51.02 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.14
England median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.03
% change year-on-year +78.93% -40.16% -1.11%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data-Driven Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Data-Driven Testing job vacancy trend in the South East

Data-Driven Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data-Driven Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data-Driven Testing

Data-Driven Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data-Driven Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Data-Driven Testing

Data-Driven Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Testing within the South East region over the 6 months to 1 August 2026. 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
West Sussex - 2 £283 - 1
Data-Driven Testing
England

Data-Driven Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Gen AI Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JSON
1 2 (100.00%) Node.js
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) pytest
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
1 2 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Actionable Insight
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Prompt Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft