Senior Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 May 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
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 329 380 441
Rank change year-on-year +51 +61 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 11 11 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.085% 0.054% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.093% 0.059% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile £351 £373 -
25th Percentile £378 £388 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £415 £438 £506
90th Percentile £459 - £525
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £575
% change year-on-year -20.00% -13.04% +19.79%

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 11,891 18,751 21,824
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.90% 92.48% 94.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,557 11,466 15,208
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £543
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.23% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 856 2,268 1,112
10th Percentile £13.84 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.21 £15.74 £18.07
Median hourly rate £26.75 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -33.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.83 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.29% -18.89% +87.50%

Senior Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Tester in the UK excluding London

Senior Tester
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 Senior Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 20 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 7 £410 -3.53% 6
North West +16 2 £390 -
North of England +16 2 £390 - 1
South West +39 1 - - 2
East Midlands - 1 £410 -
Midlands - 1 £410 -
Senior Tester
UK

Senior Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 20 May 2025, Senior Tester 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 Senior Tester in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) JIRA
3 5 (45.45%) QA
3 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Finance
4 4 (36.36%) SQL
4 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
4 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (27.27%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) SOAP
5 3 (27.27%) XML
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) V-Model
5 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
5 3 (27.27%) SoapUI
6 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (18.18%) Azure
6 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
6 2 (18.18%) Gherkin

Senior Tester 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Data Factory
1 2 (18.18%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
2 3 (27.27%) SoapUI
3 2 (18.18%) SpecFlow
3 2 (18.18%) TestRail
4 1 (9.09%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Electronics
2 2 (18.18%) Manufacturing
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) SOAP
1 3 (27.27%) XML
2 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
2 2 (18.18%) PySpark
3 1 (9.09%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) End-to-End Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
5 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (27.27%) Manual Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Programme Delivery
5 3 (27.27%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 3 (27.27%) V-Model
5 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
6 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (18.18%) Data Integration
6 2 (18.18%) Data Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
6 2 (18.18%) ETL
6 2 (18.18%) System Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 1 (9.09%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) DV Cleared
2 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
4 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Databricks
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle