Test Harness Contract Job Trends in the South East

Test Harness
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Test Harness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 219 158 176
Rank change year-on-year -61 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Test Harness 7 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% 0.20% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.22% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £211 £358 £445
25th Percentile £213 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -11.68% -13.64% -
75th Percentile £638 £488 £575
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £575 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +21.05% -13.64% +10.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South East

Test Harness 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 5,363 3,173 3,885
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 80.61% 89.36% 82.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,269 1,973 2,337
10th Percentile £280 £238 £260
25th Percentile £421 £393 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
75th Percentile £619 £600 £638
90th Percentile £713 £674 £700
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 604 308 294
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.75 £15.00
25th Percentile £19.30 £15.50 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%
75th Percentile £71.00 £53.56 £70.39
90th Percentile £87.99 £69.65 £76.86
England median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Harness relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Test Harness job vacancy trend in the South East

Test Harness
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Test Harness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Test Harness

Test Harness
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Harness in the South East over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Harness in the South East

Test Harness
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Test Harness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Test Harness

Test Harness
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 Test Harness within the South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley -35 4 £420 +108.71% 1
Hampshire - 3 - -
Buckinghamshire -37 2 £212 +5.47%
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 -
Test Harness
England

Test Harness
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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Functions
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Storage
2 2 (28.57%) Azure Table
2 2 (28.57%) Power Automate
2 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Bitbucket
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
1 2 (28.57%) TeamCity
1 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
2 1 (14.29%) MSTest
2 1 (14.29%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Integration Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) JSON
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) FPGA
1 3 (42.86%) Verilog
1 3 (42.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (42.86%) Digital Signal Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Signal Processing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Assurance
2 3 (42.86%) Trade-off Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) API Testing
3 2 (28.57%) BDD
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Transformation
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) OOP
3 2 (28.57%) SOLID
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Unit Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C
1 3 (42.86%) C++
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded C
1 3 (42.86%) Embedded C++
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) DV Cleared
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Intel
1 3 (42.86%) SAP
1 3 (42.86%) Xilinx
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft