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 £463, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 350 403 426
Rank change year-on-year +53 +23 +78
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 4 2 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.010% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.010% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 13
10th Percentile £387 £496 £400
25th Percentile £413 £497 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.13% +4.84% -2.56%
75th Percentile £469 £499 £488
90th Percentile £470 £500 £575
UK median daily rate £438 £486 £575
% change year-on-year -9.89% -15.57% +15.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 13,161 19,430 22,225
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.34% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,150 11,675 15,284
10th Percentile £220 £213 £231
25th Percentile £363 £370 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +3.84%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,061 2,398 1,185
10th Percentile £13.50 £12.75 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.84 £16.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.55
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% +1.14% +97.75%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.51 £75.50
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £37.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -29.64% -12.79% +72.00%

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 7 July 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
Scotland +3 2 £466 -6.38% 3
North of England - 2 £370 -
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 £370 -
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 7 July 2025, 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 4 (100.00%) Java
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (100.00%) SDET
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 3 (75.00%) Linux
3 2 (50.00%) Oracle
3 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
3 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Appium
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
4 1 (25.00%) Gradle
4 1 (25.00%) Jenkins

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) JBoss
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Appium
3 1 (25.00%) Git
3 1 (25.00%) GitLab
3 1 (25.00%) Gradle
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) JUnit
3 1 (25.00%) Maven
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) SDET
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Microservices
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
4 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) MVC
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft