Agile Testing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Agile Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 352 406
Rank change year-on-year -20 +54 +90
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 4 17 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.095% 0.047%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.11% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 9
10th Percentile £326 - £373
25th Percentile £366 - £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% +7.14%
75th Percentile £516 - £525
90th Percentile £559 £460 £639
UK median daily rate £350 £400 £495
% change year-on-year -12.50% -19.19% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £47.50 - -

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 13,801 14,871 18,833
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.22% 82.99% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,308 8,574 12,398
10th Percentile £235 £240 £260
25th Percentile £368 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £663 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,437 1,212 1,246
10th Percentile £14.05 £14.51 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.94 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.56 £43.00 £41.90
Median % change year-on-year -47.53% +2.63% +80.76%
75th Percentile £43.00 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +48.28%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Agile Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Agile Testing

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 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Agile Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Agile Testing

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 18 September 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 +19 1 - - 3
Scotland -2 1 - -
North West -25 1 £300 -25.00% 2
North of England -26 1 £300 -25.00% 2
South West - 1 £575 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Trello
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 3 (75.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) HP UFT
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Environment Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) PySpark
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Change Data Capture
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
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