Test Harness Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Test Harness
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Harness skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	479	364	360
Rank change year-on-year	-115	-4	+45
Contract jobs citing Test Harness	6	18	6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London	0.021%	0.11%	0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	0.026%	0.13%	0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted	3	11	4
10^th Percentile	£294	£400	£416
25^th Percentile	£413	£463	£422
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£625	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+31.58%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£638	£488	£575
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
UK median daily rate	£450	£475	£500
% change year-on-year	-5.26%	-5.00%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1	2	0
10^th Percentile	-	-	-
25^th Percentile	£82.50	-	-
Median hourly rate	£85.00	£81.00	-
Median % change year-on-year	+4.94%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£87.50	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
UK median hourly rate	£85.00	£81.00	-
% change year-on-year	+4.94%	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Harness 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.

	6 months to 19 Oct 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills	22,990	14,288	14,350
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London	81.39%	89.19%	83.70%
Number of daily rates quoted	12,677	8,593	8,124
10^th Percentile	£300	£225	£247
25^th Percentile	£408	£369	£380
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£500	£475	£500
Median % change year-on-year	+5.26%	-5.00%	-
75^th Percentile	£600	£575	£600
90^th Percentile	£688	£671	£688
UK median daily rate	£525	£500	£525
% change year-on-year	+5.00%	-4.76%	-2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	2,996	1,593	975
10^th Percentile	£13.47	£14.00	£15.00
25^th Percentile	£16.46	£16.95	£18.45
Median hourly rate	£37.24	£22.19	£40.00
Median % change year-on-year	+67.82%	-44.53%	-8.57%
75^th Percentile	£65.00	£38.94	£66.00
90^th Percentile	£77.75	£66.90	£72.50
UK median hourly rate	£37.24	£25.08	£39.59
% change year-on-year	+48.51%	-36.66%	-9.82%

Test Harness Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Test Harness Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Test Harness Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Harness in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Harness in the UK excluding London

Test Harness Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Test Harness 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 Harness within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 October 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	-65	3	£625	+31.58%	5
North of England	-71	2	-	-	2
Yorkshire	-	2	-	-	1
East of England	-29	1	-	-	6
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Test Harness Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 19 October 2026, contractor job vacancies citing Test Harness also mentioned 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 with a requirement for Test Harness.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Azure	83.3%	5
2	Microsoft	66.7%	4
3	CI/CD	50.0%	3
3	DevOps	50.0%	3
3	Validation	50.0%	3
6	AI	33.3%	2
6	Azure AI	33.3%	2
6	Azure Functions	33.3%	2
6	Azure Logic Apps	33.3%	2
6	Azure Monitor	33.3%	2
6	Azure Storage	33.3%	2
6	Azure Table	33.3%	2
6	Business Case	33.3%	2
6	Collaborative Working	33.3%	2
6	Commercial Awareness	33.3%	2
6	Computer Science	33.3%	2
6	Copilot Studio	33.3%	2
6	Data Engineering	33.3%	2
6	Data Protection	33.3%	2
6	Data Transformation	33.3%	2
6	Enterprise Architecture	33.3%	2
6	Foundry	33.3%	2
6	HTTPS	33.3%	2
6	Infrastructure as Code	33.3%	2
6	ISO/IEC 42001	33.3%	2
6	JSON	33.3%	2
6	LLM	33.3%	2
6	Metadata	33.3%	2
6	Microsoft Copilot	33.3%	2
6	Model Validation	33.3%	2

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

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	CI/CD	50.0%	3
1	DevOps	50.0%	3
1	Validation	50.0%	3
4	AI	33.3%	2
4	Business Case	33.3%	2
4	Collaborative Working	33.3%	2
4	Commercial Awareness	33.3%	2
4	Computer Science	33.3%	2
4	Data Engineering	33.3%	2
4	Data Protection	33.3%	2
4	Data Transformation	33.3%	2
4	Enterprise Architecture	33.3%	2
4	Infrastructure as Code	33.3%	2
4	LLM	33.3%	2
4	Model Validation	33.3%	2
4	Observability	33.3%	2
4	Prototyping	33.3%	2
4	Rapid Prototyping	33.3%	2
4	Retrieval-Augmented Generation	33.3%	2
4	Risk Management	33.3%	2