Senior Tester Contracts in the South East

Senior Tester
England > South East

The median Senior Tester daily rate in the South East is £410, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 143 187 211
Rank change year-on-year +44 +24 +49
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 7 5 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.24% 0.092% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.099% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £346 - £434
25th Percentile £365 £413 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £425 £488
Median % change year-on-year -3.53% -12.82% +1.56%
75th Percentile £455 £438 £522
90th Percentile £475 - £531
England median daily rate £390 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -27.44% -2.27% +15.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 2,720 5,046 5,333
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.43% 92.35% 94.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,812 3,031 3,721
10th Percentile £225 £213 £220
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £601
90th Percentile £661 £688 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 486 234
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.80 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.20 £21.95
Median hourly rate £32.05 £47.50 £48.70
Median % change year-on-year -32.53% -2.46% +143.49%
75th Percentile £62.75 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £37.18 £44.77
% change year-on-year -21.60% -16.94% +94.63%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in the South East

Senior Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Senior Tester in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Senior Tester in the South East

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Tester in the South East

Senior Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Senior Tester in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Senior Tester in the South East

Senior Tester
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 Senior Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Hampshire +27 5 £410 - 2
Thames Valley +33 2 - -
Berkshire +29 2 - -
Senior Tester
England

Senior Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 21 May 2025, Senior 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 South East region featuring Senior Tester in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
2 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Finance
3 4 (57.14%) SQL
3 4 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (42.86%) SoapUI
4 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) SOAP
4 3 (42.86%) XML
4 3 (42.86%) QA
4 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 3 (42.86%) V-Model
4 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) Azure
5 2 (28.57%) Confluence
5 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 2 (28.57%) System Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 2 (28.57%) ISTQB

Senior Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) SoapUI
3 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
3 2 (28.57%) TestRail
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Electronics
2 2 (28.57%) Manufacturing
2 2 (28.57%) Marketing
2 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
1 3 (42.86%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
2 2 (28.57%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Mentoring
4 3 (42.86%) Programme Delivery
4 3 (42.86%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 3 (42.86%) Test Scripting
4 3 (42.86%) V-Model
4 3 (42.86%) Waterfall
5 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
5 2 (28.57%) Data Validation
5 2 (28.57%) ETL
5 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Process Improvement
5 2 (28.57%) System Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks
1 2 (28.57%) SAP