Agile Testing Contracts

Agile Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Agile Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Agile Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 574 670
Rank change year-on-year +44 +96 +149
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 9 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.029% 0.037% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.043% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 13
10th Percentile £355 £378 £375
25th Percentile £363 £400 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £405 £495
Median % change year-on-year +17.28% -18.18% +2.59%
75th Percentile £588 £488 £563
90th Percentile £610 £509 £610
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £400 £438
% change year-on-year +18.75% -8.57% -4.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £46.25 - -
Median hourly rate £47.50 - -
75th Percentile £48.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 - -

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 28,438 37,047 49,962
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.78% 85.22% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,912 23,635 34,414
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £405 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +1.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,399 2,530 1,711
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £64.81
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +64.71%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing over the 6 months to 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Top 7 Contract 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 3 July 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 +53 7 £525 +28.05% 19
UK excluding London +27 5 £475 +18.75% 12
London +44 4 £475 -2.66% 8
South East +42 2 £475 - 2
Scotland -3 1 - -
South West - 1 £575 -
Wales - 1 £375 -

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Apache Hive
1 1 (11.11%) DB2
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
1 1 (11.11%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) SpecFlow
3 2 (22.22%) WebDriver
4 1 (11.11%) Appium
4 1 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
4 1 (11.11%) NUnit
4 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
4 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (11.11%) Banking
4 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) QA Leader
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Environment Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Java Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
3 1 (11.11%) UI Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Playwright
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance
1 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
1 1 (11.11%) Solar Panel
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Demand Management
4 2 (22.22%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Software Engineering
5 1 (11.11%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) C#
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Confluent
1 1 (11.11%) Hitachi
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) Informatica
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle
1 1 (11.11%) StreamSets