Agile Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Agile Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile Testing over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 394 434
Rank change year-on-year +59 +40 +54
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 4 5 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.024% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.028% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 10
10th Percentile £383 £524 £363
25th Percentile £413 £531 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £559 £475
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% +17.74% -4.04%
75th Percentile £538 £586 £524
90th Percentile £568 £591 £543
UK median daily rate £525 £559 £475
% change year-on-year -6.12% +17.74% -4.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Agile 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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,562 17,588 21,473
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.75% 89.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,253 10,507 14,891
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 2,055 1,305
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.32 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.22 £15.81
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.66% +4.29% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.52 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £36.42
% change year-on-year -18.31% -2.53% +45.69%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2025. 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
South East +45 1 £475 -18.10% 1
Scotland +12 1 - -
South West - 1 £575 -
Wales - 1 £375 -
Agile Testing
UK

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
1 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (25.00%) DB2
1 1 (25.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Appium
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) NUnit
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Environment Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Confluent
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Informatica
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) StreamSets