Test Assurance Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Assurance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 423 323 384
Rank change year-on-year -100 +61 +50
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 13 17 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.054% 0.13% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.15% 0.017%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 12 3
10th Percentile £219 £396 £416
25th Percentile £223 £424 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £362 £469 £438
Median % change year-on-year -22.88% +7.14% -10.26%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £466
90th Percentile £584 - £479
UK median daily rate £550 £450 £430
% change year-on-year +22.22% +4.65% -18.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £83.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £83.50 -

All Process & 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 19,682 11,550 17,159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 81.09% 90.47% 84.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,849 7,222 10,227
10th Percentile £300 £235 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £581 £600
90th Percentile £681 £656 £688
UK median daily rate £505 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,063 831 2,055
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.20 £12.32
25th Percentile £18.95 £17.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.50 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +69.81% -30.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.74
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.75 £36.50
% change year-on-year +47.83% -21.23% +0.29%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Assurance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Test Assurance job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Test Assurance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Test Assurance

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 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Test Assurance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Test Assurance

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 15 May 2026. 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 -58 8 £223 -54.26% 1
North West -33 2 - - 2
North of England -64 2 - - 2
South West - 2 £581 - 4
West Midlands -65 1 - -
Midlands -70 1 - - 1
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) SAP ERP
1 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 2 (15.38%) Zephyr
3 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.69%) Postman
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Automotive
2 2 (15.38%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Military
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
1 5 (38.46%) Test Leader
2 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Functional Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Integration Tester
3 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Assurance Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) FPGA
1 3 (23.08%) Verilog
1 3 (23.08%) VHDL
2 1 (7.69%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Embedded Linux
1 3 (23.08%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Test Strategy
2 8 (61.54%) Regression Testing
2 8 (61.54%) Test Automation
3 7 (53.85%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Defect Management
5 4 (30.77%) Agile
5 4 (30.77%) Data Analysis
5 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Management
5 4 (30.77%) Knowledge Transfer
5 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (23.08%) Customer Engagement
6 3 (23.08%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (23.08%) Digital Signal Processing
6 3 (23.08%) Signal Processing
6 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (23.08%) Test Management
6 3 (23.08%) Trade-off Analysis
6 3 (23.08%) Validation
7 2 (15.38%) Analytical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) C
1 3 (23.08%) C++
1 3 (23.08%) Embedded C
1 3 (23.08%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) DV Cleared
3 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 2 (15.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (15.38%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
2 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
3 1 (7.69%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) HP ALM
2 1 (7.69%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) CheckPoint
1 4 (30.77%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Intel
2 3 (23.08%) Xilinx
3 2 (15.38%) HP
4 1 (7.69%) Workday