Test Consultant Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 385 370 417
Rank change year-on-year -15 +47 +81
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.019% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.020% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
10th Percentile £301 - £365
25th Percentile £339 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £350 £400
Median % change year-on-year +15.71% -12.50% -15.79%
75th Percentile £486 - £419
90th Percentile £534 - £423
UK median daily rate £405 £400 £500
% change year-on-year +1.25% -20.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK median hourly rate - - £65.00

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 15,878 14,958 19,098
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.97% 92.37% 93.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,804 8,650 12,541
10th Percentile £208 £215 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,566 997 1,252
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.10 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.23 £72.50 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +46.67%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Test Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
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 Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 November 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
Midlands - 1 £405 -
Wales - 1 £275 -
West Midlands - 1 £405 -
East of England - 1 £565 - 3
Test Consultant
UK

Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, Test Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Test Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) NeoLoad
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) QA
1 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement

Test Consultant Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (33.33%) SDLC
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Test Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
1 1 (33.33%) User Stories
1 1 (33.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow