Tester Contracts in the Thames Valley

Tester
South East > Thames Valley

The median Tester daily rate in the Thames Valley is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 112 111 142
Rank change year-on-year -1 +31 -37
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 25 33 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.93% 1.14% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.00% 1.21% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 15
10th Percentile £400 £363 £311
25th Percentile £406 £402 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £444 £395
Median % change year-on-year -4.23% +12.34% +21.54%
75th Percentile £497 £512 £469
90th Percentile £506 £545 £575
South East median daily rate £425 £420 £433
% change year-on-year +1.19% -2.89% +14.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £10.24 - £68.08
Median hourly rate £10.30 - £68.17
75th Percentile £10.36 - £68.25
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £10.30 - £18.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,493 2,734 3,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.13% 94.50% 95.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,434 1,900 2,298
10th Percentile £208 £313 £193
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £494
% change year-on-year - +1.27% +9.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 187 75 102
10th Percentile £15.70 £17.27 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £21.33 £12.44
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.90 £66.21 £23.75
90th Percentile £85.41 £79.19 £57.14
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
% change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the Thames Valley

Tester
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 Tester within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 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
Berkshire -8 21 £425 -1.45% 2
Buckinghamshire +25 2 £475 -10.38%
Oxfordshire +6 2 £488 +8.33%
Tester
South East

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (36.00%) Mobile App
2 9 (36.00%) Security Testing
3 8 (32.00%) GIAC
3 8 (32.00%) Penetration Testing
3 8 (32.00%) Web Services
3 8 (32.00%) Broadband
3 8 (32.00%) Law
3 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (32.00%) IaaS
3 8 (32.00%) GPEN
3 8 (32.00%) OSCP
3 8 (32.00%) PCI DSS
3 8 (32.00%) OWASP
3 8 (32.00%) SaaS
3 8 (32.00%) PaaS
3 8 (32.00%) Virgin Media
3 8 (32.00%) 5G
3 8 (32.00%) CREST Certified
3 8 (32.00%) SANS
3 8 (32.00%) GDPR
3 8 (32.00%) NCSC
3 8 (32.00%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (32.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 8 (32.00%) Application Security
4 7 (28.00%) Azure
4 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (20.00%) Telecoms

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.00%) Apache
1 1 (4.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 8 (32.00%) IaaS
1 8 (32.00%) PaaS
1 8 (32.00%) SaaS
2 7 (28.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.00%) GitHub
5 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (32.00%) 5G
1 8 (32.00%) Broadband
2 2 (8.00%) Diameter Protocol
2 2 (8.00%) GGSN
2 2 (8.00%) IPsec
2 2 (8.00%) SGSN
3 1 (4.00%) BGP
3 1 (4.00%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.00%) MPLS
3 1 (4.00%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (4.00%) SMS
3 1 (4.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (4.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (16.00%) JMeter
2 3 (12.00%) Selenium
3 2 (8.00%) JIRA
3 2 (8.00%) SpecFlow
4 1 (4.00%) Android Studio
4 1 (4.00%) Appium
4 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.00%) Git
4 1 (4.00%) GitLab
4 1 (4.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.00%) JUnit
4 1 (4.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (4.00%) Postman
4 1 (4.00%) Robot Framework
4 1 (4.00%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (4.00%) TestNG
4 1 (4.00%) TestRail
4 1 (4.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.00%) Xcode
General
1 8 (32.00%) Law
1 8 (32.00%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 5 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (16.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Finance
5 1 (4.00%) Games
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) Web Services
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) JSON
2 2 (8.00%) REST
2 2 (8.00%) XML
3 1 (4.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.00%) HTML
3 1 (4.00%) NETCONF
3 1 (4.00%) Playwright
3 1 (4.00%) RESTCONF
3 1 (4.00%) RESTful
3 1 (4.00%) SOAP
3 1 (4.00%) Spring
3 1 (4.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (4.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 9 (36.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (36.00%) Security Testing
2 8 (32.00%) Application Security
2 8 (32.00%) Cybersecurity
2 8 (32.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 8 (32.00%) OWASP
2 8 (32.00%) Penetration Testing
2 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (28.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) Performance Testing
5 4 (16.00%) CI/CD
5 4 (16.00%) Functional Testing
5 4 (16.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (12.00%) DevOps
6 3 (12.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (12.00%) Scrum
7 2 (8.00%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (8.00%) Collaborative Working
7 2 (8.00%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.00%) C#
2 3 (12.00%) SQL
3 2 (8.00%) Java
3 2 (8.00%) Python
4 1 (4.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 12 (48.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (32.00%) CREST Certified
2 8 (32.00%) GIAC
2 8 (32.00%) GPEN
2 8 (32.00%) OSCP
2 8 (32.00%) SANS
3 2 (8.00%) CCNA
3 2 (8.00%) CCNP
3 2 (8.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) GDPR
1 8 (32.00%) NCSC
1 8 (32.00%) PCI DSS
2 5 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (12.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Virgin Media
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 2 (8.00%) Microsoft