Test Assurance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Assurance skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Assurance over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 317 391 433
Rank change year-on-year +74 +42 +59
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 17 3 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.13% 0.014% 0.092%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.017% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 3 15
10th Percentile £396 £416 £405
25th Percentile £424 £422 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile £500 £466 £600
90th Percentile - £479 £612
UK median daily rate £450 £435 £538
% change year-on-year +3.45% -19.07% +13.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £83.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Assurance 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 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +43 9 £488 +6.85% 2
Midlands +22 5 £463 +8.82%
West Midlands +17 5 £463 +8.82%
North of England - 3 £438 -
North West - 2 £425 -
Yorkshire - 1 £450 -
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Converged Networks
Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (29.41%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Tester
2 4 (23.53%) Test Manager
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Applications Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Lead
5 1 (5.88%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (5.88%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Network Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (52.94%) Product Ownership
1 9 (52.94%) SCADA
2 1 (5.88%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Linux
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Test Strategy
2 10 (58.82%) Test Management
3 7 (41.18%) Agile
3 7 (41.18%) Defect Management
3 7 (41.18%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Scrum
4 5 (29.41%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Systems Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) User Stories
4 5 (29.41%) Validation
5 4 (23.53%) Change Management
5 4 (23.53%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Test Automation
6 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Demand Management
7 2 (11.76%) Knowledge Transfer
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Perl
1 4 (23.53%) PL/SQL
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) HP
2 5 (29.41%) MuleSoft
2 5 (29.41%) Oracle
3 3 (17.65%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) BT