Web Testing Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Web Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Web Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 390 349 398
Rank change year-on-year -41 +49 +98
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.020% 0.010%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.013% 0.023% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £306 -
25th Percentile - £314 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £331 £363
Median % change year-on-year -24.53% -8.62% +25.00%
75th Percentile - £352 £369
90th Percentile - £362 -
UK median daily rate £425 £293 £590
% change year-on-year +45.30% -50.42% -9.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Web Testing 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 15,689 12,960 17,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.83% 87.26% 88.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,582 7,621 11,014
10th Percentile £220 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,758 745 1,210
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.00 £17.72
Median hourly rate £23.54 £31.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.28% -30.00% +42.45%
75th Percentile £50.00 £64.10 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.03 £73.14 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.90
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.97% +25.43%

Web Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Web Testing job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Web Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Testing

Web Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Web Testing

Web Testing
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 Web Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
North of England -49 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Wales - 1 £250 -
Web Testing
UK

Web Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Case Management
1 1 (50.00%) Deadline-Driven
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Synthetic Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) AppDynamics