Test Specialist Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Specialist daily rate in the UK excluding London is £533 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 382 453 500
Rank change year-on-year +71 +47 -81
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 9 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.043% 0.033% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.035% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile £467 £377 £441
25th Percentile £490 £399 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £461 £480
Median % change year-on-year +15.51% -3.96% +16.36%
75th Percentile £578 £550 £531
90th Percentile £602 - £575
UK median daily rate £475 £442 £469
% change year-on-year +7.47% -5.71% +6.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 19,262 22,750 29,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.67% 94.10% 95.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,825 15,940 20,711
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £391 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £594 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,216 1,193 1,496
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.07
25th Percentile £15.67 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Specialist in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Specialist in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Specialist in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Specialist in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Specialist in the UK excluding London

Test Specialist
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 Specialist within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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 +15 5 £613 - 1
Scotland +26 2 - - 1
South West +22 1 - - 1
East Midlands - 1 £453 - 1
Midlands - 1 £453 - 1
Test Specialist
UK

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Test Specialist 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 Test Specialist in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 4 (44.44%) Unix
3 3 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
4 2 (22.22%) Agile
4 2 (22.22%) Java
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) OpenText
5 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
5 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (11.11%) ERP
5 1 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Informatica
5 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
5 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
5 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
5 1 (11.11%) Micro Focus
5 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Data Security

Test Specialist 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 1 (11.11%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) OCI
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
1 1 (11.11%) JMeter
1 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
1 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
1 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Agile
2 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Validation
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (11.11%) Defect Management
3 1 (11.11%) Functional Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Refactoring
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Test Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (22.22%) Java
3 1 (11.11%) Groovy
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
3 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) BT
2 1 (11.11%) Confluent
2 1 (11.11%) HP
2 1 (11.11%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
2 1 (11.11%) Micro Focus
2 1 (11.11%) OpenText
2 1 (11.11%) StreamSets