Test Leader Contract Job Trends in Telford

Test Lead
Shropshire > Telford

As of 7 October 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Lead daily rate in Telford.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 - 15
Rank change year-on-year - - +79
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 1 0 3
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.55% - 6.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% - 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £410
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.19%
75th Percentile - - £433
90th Percentile - - £443
Shropshire median daily rate - - £410
% change year-on-year - - -4.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Telford

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Telford. 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 Telford with a recognized job title 163 74 43
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.56% 87.06% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 120 65 27
10th Percentile £324 £298 £258
25th Percentile £402 £338 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £484 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.83% +0.83% -8.13%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £544
90th Percentile £541 £567 £588
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £470 £475
% change year-on-year +4.68% -1.05% -7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £18.68 £23.60 -
% change year-on-year -20.85% - -

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Leader' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford.

Test Leader job vacancy trend in Telford

Test Leader
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Telford.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Leader job vacancies in Telford

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford

For the 6 months to 7 October 2025, Test Leader 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 Telford region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (100.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Component Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) OWASP
1 1 (100.00%) Penetration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) System Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kibana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PagerDuty
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk