Data-Driven Testing Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Data-Driven Testing
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.15% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
North East median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data-Driven Testing 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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 531 191 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 81.32% 83.04% 86.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 129 87
10th Percentile £313 £200 £314
25th Percentile £400 £361 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -2.63% -9.52%
75th Percentile £577 £575 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £633
North East median daily rate £450 £461 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.89% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 10 24
10th Percentile £17.00 £11.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £43.96 £13.47 £12.13
Median hourly rate £66.25 £17.15 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +286.30% -12.05% -1.27%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.46 £50.00
90th Percentile - £23.76 £70.00
North East median hourly rate £68.47 £17.15 £19.50
% change year-on-year +299.24% -12.05% -25.00%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Data-Driven Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Data-Driven Testing job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Data-Driven Testing
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Testing within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 21 July 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 - -
Data-Driven Testing
North East

Data-Driven Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon ECS
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Pipelines
1 1 (100.00%) Kong
1 1 (100.00%) Serverless
1 1 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Kafka
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) FinOps
1 1 (100.00%) Identity Access Management
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Secrets Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Grafana
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (100.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform