Tester Contracts in the South East

Tester
England > South East

The median Tester daily rate in the South East is £210, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 June 2024.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 172 199
Rank change year-on-year -5 +27 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 23 43 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.40% 0.76% 0.84%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.80% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 41
10th Percentile £187 £234 £300
25th Percentile £205 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £420 £400
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +5.00% +5.96%
75th Percentile £438 £493 £505
90th Percentile £499 £577 £575
England median daily rate £450 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.94% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £22.33
25th Percentile £10.24 - £29.96
Median hourly rate £10.30 - £43.33
75th Percentile £10.36 - £56.12
90th Percentile - - £63.40
England median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +289.19% -57.31%

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 5,301 5,353 7,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.14% 94.53% 95.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,132 3,704 5,019
10th Percentile £243 £213 £211
25th Percentile £400 £387 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £601 £594
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 552 234 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.33 £12.55
25th Percentile £18.82 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £52.50 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +150.00% -13.93%
75th Percentile £66.74 £66.21 £47.44
90th Percentile £79.88 £75.00 £63.25
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the South East

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in the South East

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the South East over the 6 months to 16 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the South East

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the South East

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 Tester within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 June 2024. 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 0 14 £425 -0.29% 6
Berkshire -17 10 £425 +4.29% 3
Hampshire -10 8 £210 -50.00% 2
Buckinghamshire +24 2 £475 -10.38% 1
Oxfordshire +3 2 £488 +8.33% 2
Surrey +15 1 - -
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 June 2024, 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 Tester in the job title.

1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
3 7 (30.43%) QA
3 7 (30.43%) Agile
4 6 (26.09%) Scrum
4 6 (26.09%) Manufacturing
4 6 (26.09%) Process Improvement
5 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (21.74%) C#
5 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
6 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
6 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
6 4 (17.39%) JMeter
6 4 (17.39%) DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
6 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
6 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 3 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
7 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
7 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
7 3 (13.04%) XML
7 3 (13.04%) SQL
7 3 (13.04%) Python
7 3 (13.04%) Test Management
7 3 (13.04%) JSON
7 3 (13.04%) JIRA
8 2 (8.70%) Cryptography
8 2 (8.70%) Software Testing

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 1 (4.35%) Apache
1 1 (4.35%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Azure
2 4 (17.39%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.35%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub
4 1 (4.35%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
2 1 (4.35%) BGP
2 1 (4.35%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (4.35%) MPLS
2 1 (4.35%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.35%) SMS
2 1 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (4.35%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (4.35%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.35%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (17.39%) JMeter
2 3 (13.04%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
3 2 (8.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (8.70%) Selenium
4 1 (4.35%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.35%) Appium
4 1 (4.35%) Git
4 1 (4.35%) GitLab
4 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.35%) JUnit
4 1 (4.35%) Postman
4 1 (4.35%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.35%) SoapUI
4 1 (4.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
4 1 (4.35%) TestNG
4 1 (4.35%) TestRail
4 1 (4.35%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.35%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.35%) Xcode
General
1 6 (26.09%) Manufacturing
2 5 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 4 (17.39%) Social Skills
4 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 2 (8.70%) Games
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.04%) JSON
1 3 (13.04%) XML
2 2 (8.70%) .NET
2 2 (8.70%) REST
3 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.35%) HTML
3 1 (4.35%) NETCONF
3 1 (4.35%) Playwright
3 1 (4.35%) RESTCONF
3 1 (4.35%) RESTful
3 1 (4.35%) SOAP
3 1 (4.35%) Spring
3 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) PKI
1 2 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.35%) PlayStation
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Android
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Test Automation
2 7 (30.43%) Agile
3 6 (26.09%) Process Improvement
3 6 (26.09%) Scrum
4 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
4 4 (17.39%) DevOps
4 4 (17.39%) Manual Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Performance Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
5 3 (13.04%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (13.04%) Test Management
6 2 (8.70%) BDD
6 2 (8.70%) Cryptography
6 2 (8.70%) Functional Testing
6 2 (8.70%) SIEM
6 2 (8.70%) Software Testing
6 2 (8.70%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (8.70%) User Stories
7 1 (4.35%) Information Security
7 1 (4.35%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) C#
2 3 (13.04%) Python
2 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 1 (4.35%) Java
3 1 (4.35%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (30.43%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (8.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (4.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (13.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.35%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.35%) Databricks
2 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
2 1 (4.35%) Sony