Developer in Test Contracts in the UK excluding London

Developer in Test
UK > UK excluding London

The median Developer in Test daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 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
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 425 500
Rank change year-on-year +34 +75 -72
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 5 22 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.024% 0.094% 0.039%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% 0.099% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 17 12
10th Percentile £446 £370 £414
25th Percentile £496 £410 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile - £488 £565
90th Percentile - - £624
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £478
% change year-on-year -13.04% +20.23% +4.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,944 22,126 29,093
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.32% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,551 15,489 20,369
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,258 1,140 1,432
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.72 £17.86 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.43 £19.67
Median % change year-on-year -5.73% +115.78% +3.50%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £43.07
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Developer in Test in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in the UK excluding London

Developer in Test
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Developer in Test in the UK excluding London

Developer in Test
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Test in the UK excluding London

Developer in Test
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 Developer in Test within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
North of England - 3 £500 - 1
Scotland +25 2 £498 +4.84%
North West - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £425 - 1
Developer in Test
UK

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 May 2024, Developer in Test 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 UK excluding London region featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) SDET
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 3 (60.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
4 2 (40.00%) SQL
4 2 (40.00%) MySQL
4 2 (40.00%) Oracle
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
4 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
4 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (40.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (40.00%) Fintech
4 2 (40.00%) QA
5 1 (20.00%) Terraform
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria

Developer in Test Skill Set
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 2 (40.00%) AWS
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) MariaDB
1 2 (40.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) SDET
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
4 2 (40.00%) Fintech
4 2 (40.00%) Service Management
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Microservices
5 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 1 (20.00%) TDD
5 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (20.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C#
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle