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 £453, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 423 480
Rank change year-on-year +28 +57 -50
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 6 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.028% 0.031% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.033% 0.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 22
10th Percentile - £377 -
25th Percentile £451 £399 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £461 £360
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +28.06% -17.71%
75th Percentile £454 £550 £424
90th Percentile - - £571
UK median daily rate £450 £462 £360
% change year-on-year -2.60% +28.33% -17.71%

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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
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 17 June 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
East of England +3 2 - -
South East +14 1 - -
South West +2 1 - - 1
Scotland - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £453 -
Midlands - 1 £453 -
Test Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 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 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analogue Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Project Management
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
3 1 (16.67%) Agile
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
3 1 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (16.67%) IBM
3 1 (16.67%) Informatica
3 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
3 1 (16.67%) JIRA
3 1 (16.67%) QA

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 (16.67%) Apache Airflow
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon EKS
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Apache Hive
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Electronics
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (16.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Analogue Electronics
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Project Management
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Business Continuity
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Groovy
2 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) BT
1 1 (16.67%) Confluent
1 1 (16.67%) IBM
1 1 (16.67%) Informatica
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) StreamSets