Test Harness Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Test Harness
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 151 116 124
Rank change year-on-year -35 +8 -
Contract jobs citing Test Harness 4 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.13% 0.060% 0.044%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.16% 0.065% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £211 - -
25th Percentile £213 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £201 -
Median % change year-on-year +108.71% - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £420 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -11.68% -13.64% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,533 1,530 1,908
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 80.34% 91.29% 84.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,609 919 1,086
10th Percentile £325 £293 £279
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -1.96% -2.58%
75th Percentile £608 £600 £625
90th Percentile £713 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £515
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.91% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 103 98
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.20 £14.50
25th Percentile £19.33 £15.12 £26.09
Median hourly rate £62.25 £24.00 £58.34
Median % change year-on-year +159.38% -58.86% +16.68%
75th Percentile £85.33 £38.42 £70.06
90th Percentile £103.63 £76.30 £86.49
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £22.29 £57.35
% change year-on-year +135.58% -61.14% +10.80%

Test Harness
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Test Harness job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Test Harness
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Test Harness.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Test Harness

Test Harness
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Harness in the Thames Valley

Test Harness
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Test Harness.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Test Harness

Test Harness
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire -37 2 £212 +5.47%
Oxfordshire - 2 £625 -
Test Harness
South East

Test Harness
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Functions
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Logic Apps
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Monitor
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Storage
2 2 (50.00%) Azure Table
2 2 (50.00%) Power Automate
2 2 (50.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Bitbucket
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
1 2 (50.00%) SpecFlow
1 2 (50.00%) TeamCity
1 2 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) MSTest
2 1 (25.00%) NUnit
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Azure Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Developer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) API Testing
1 2 (50.00%) BDD
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Data Transformation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) OOP
1 2 (50.00%) SOLID
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft