Agile Testing Contract Job Trends

Agile Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Agile Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 571 528 596
Rank change year-on-year -43 +68 +161
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 11 15 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.042% 0.026%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.034% 0.048% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 11
10th Percentile £335 - £425
25th Percentile £365 - £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £400 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -33.33% +15.38%
75th Percentile £460 £419 £634
90th Percentile £461 £588 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £440 £400 £540
% change year-on-year +10.00% -25.93% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - £45.00
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - £45.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,247 31,236 40,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 88.88% 87.47% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,285 18,990 26,947
10th Percentile £300 £308 £310
25th Percentile £405 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,090 1,084 1,559
10th Percentile £14.50 £15.25 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.50 £20.19 £18.94
Median hourly rate £25.13 £33.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.86% -22.35% +21.43%
75th Percentile £45.46 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -30.37% -23.53% +30.77%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Agile Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Agile Testing job vacancy trend in the UK

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Agile Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Agile Testing

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Agile Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Agile Testing

Agile Testing
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England -41 11 £420 +5.00% 3
UK excluding London -46 7 £440 +10.00% 2
South East -10 6 £460 +5.14% 1
London -1 4 £360 -40.00% 2
Work from Home - 3 £420 - 1
North West -24 1 £300 -25.00% 1
North of England -51 1 £300 -25.00% 1

Agile Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 6 (54.55%) Azure
2 5 (45.45%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Hive
1 1 (9.09%) DB2
1 1 (9.09%) Hadoop
1 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) JIRA
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) Postman
4 1 (9.09%) Appium
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) GitLab
4 1 (9.09%) HP UFT
4 1 (9.09%) JMeter
4 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
4 1 (9.09%) NUnit
4 1 (9.09%) SoapUI
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 1 (9.09%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Documentation Skills
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 5 (45.45%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
4 1 (9.09%) Aerospace
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Test Strategist
3 1 (9.09%) Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (9.09%) Gherkin
1 1 (9.09%) Kafka
1 1 (9.09%) PySpark
1 1 (9.09%) REST
1 1 (9.09%) RESTful
1 1 (9.09%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) Agile
2 10 (90.91%) Test Automation
3 8 (72.73%) Software Testing
4 6 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (54.55%) Test Management
5 5 (45.45%) Business Continuity
5 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (45.45%) ERP
5 5 (45.45%) Integration Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Resilience Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (45.45%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (45.45%) Test Strategy
5 5 (45.45%) Validation
6 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C#
3 1 (9.09%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) ISTQB
1 5 (45.45%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) ServiceNow
1 5 (45.45%) Workday
2 1 (9.09%) Confluent
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Informatica
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Sitecore
2 1 (9.09%) StreamSets