Data-Driven Testing Contracts

Data-Driven Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Testing over the 6 months leading up to 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 570 668
Rank change year-on-year +29 +98 +183
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 9 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.009% 0.019%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.011% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 11
10th Percentile £409 - £463
25th Percentile £420 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +33.33%
75th Percentile £638 £594 £631
90th Percentile £710 £620 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £455 £550 £594
% change year-on-year -17.27% -7.37% +150.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven 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 28,850 36,964 50,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.71% 85.28% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,170 23,592 34,850
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% +0.92%
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 1,420 2,515 1,729
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.42 £16.18 £16.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £37.34
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +1.77% +43.62%
75th Percentile £53.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.66 £38.12 £35.00
% change year-on-year -35.31% +8.91% +66.67%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Data-Driven Testing over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

Data-Driven 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 Data-Driven Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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 +56 7 £513 -6.82% 9
London - 5 £625 - 7
Work from Home +31 4 £444 -19.36% 7
UK excluding London +40 2 £455 -17.27% 6
Scotland - 1 £445 - 4
East Midlands - 1 £465 - 1
Midlands - 1 £465 - 1

Data-Driven 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) AWS
3 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 1 (11.11%) Power BI
2 1 (11.11%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
1 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Private Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Security Tester
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (11.11%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 2 (22.22%) Online Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (11.11%) Pricing Data
2 1 (11.11%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Artificial Intelligence
2 4 (44.44%) Information Security
2 4 (44.44%) IT Audit
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) Cloud Security
3 3 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 3 (33.33%) Generative AI
3 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 2 (22.22%) API Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 2 (22.22%) CRM
4 2 (22.22%) Kanban
4 2 (22.22%) Matrix Management
4 2 (22.22%) Wealth Management
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) CISA
1 4 (44.44%) CISM
1 4 (44.44%) CISSP
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
1 4 (44.44%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) COBIT
1 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (44.44%) NIST
1 4 (44.44%) NIST 800
2 3 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (22.22%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Rapid7
2 1 (11.11%) Alteryx
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow