Tester Contract Job Trends in South London

Tester
London > South London

The median Tester daily rate in South London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 35 44
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 7 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.99% 0.90% 1.07%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.07% 0.93% 1.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £480 £394 -
25th Percentile £500 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £455 £425
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +7.06% +25.93%
75th Percentile £541 £504 £463
90th Percentile £582 £529 £478
London median daily rate £475 £455 £550
% change year-on-year +4.40% -17.27% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South London. 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 South London with a recognized job title 228 216 272
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.44% 97.74% 96.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 143 189
10th Percentile £296 £200 £184
25th Percentile £419 £390 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £630 £783 £673
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 23
10th Percentile £54.44 £23.77 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £27.61 £18.25
Median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% +44.68% -46.11%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.20 £48.37
90th Percentile - £69.52 £83.75
London median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £28.16
% change year-on-year -7.14% +24.31% -15.34%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Tester job vacancy trend in South London

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in South London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in South London over the 6 months to 5 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in South London

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in South London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in South London

Tester
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 February 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
Croydon +2 5 £525 +15.38% 2
Kingston Upon Thames - 1 £500 -
Tester
London

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 5 February 2026, Tester 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 South London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) JIRA
3 4 (57.14%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) CREST Certified
4 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
4 3 (42.86%) NIST
4 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
4 3 (42.86%) OWASP
4 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
4 3 (42.86%) QA
4 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
4 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (28.57%) CEH
5 2 (28.57%) CHECK Team Leader
5 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
5 2 (28.57%) DevOps
5 2 (28.57%) Docker
5 2 (28.57%) NCSC
5 2 (28.57%) OSCP
5 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (28.57%) SDLC
5 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
5 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (14.29%) .NET

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (14.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (14.29%) Git
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
1 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
1 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET
1 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (14.29%) Entity Framework
1 1 (14.29%) Great Expectations
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
1 1 (14.29%) pytest
1 1 (14.29%) React
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) RESTful
1 1 (14.29%) Vue
1 1 (14.29%) Web Services
1 1 (14.29%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) CSOC
2 1 (14.29%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) OWASP
2 3 (42.86%) Penetration Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
2 3 (42.86%) Vulnerability Management
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Security
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Security Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Data Ingestion
4 1 (14.29%) Decision Tree
4 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
4 1 (14.29%) Explainable AI
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (42.86%) CREST Certified
3 2 (28.57%) CEH
3 2 (28.57%) CHECK Team Leader
3 2 (28.57%) OSCP
4 1 (14.29%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (42.86%) NIST
1 3 (42.86%) NIST 800
1 3 (42.86%) QA
2 2 (28.57%) NCSC
3 1 (14.29%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dynatrace