Developer in Test Contracts

Developer in Test
UK

The median Developer in Test daily rate in the UK is £498 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 679 744
Rank change year-on-year +104 +65 -104
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 11 43 87
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.072% 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.076% 0.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 75
10th Percentile £401 £410 £340
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.39% +21.05% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £695 £565
90th Percentile £526 £700 £633
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +18.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Developer in Test in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in the UK

Developer in Test
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Test in the UK

Developer in Test
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Test over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Test in the UK

Developer in Test
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test.

Hourly rate trend for Developer in Test in the UK

Developer in Test
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Developer in Test within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Work from Home +125 8 £430 -2.82% 1
England +100 8 £430 -37.23% 2
London +87 5 £428 -38.49%
UK excluding London +56 5 £500 +5.26% 2
North of England - 3 £500 -
Scotland +12 2 £498 +4.84%
North West - 2 £500 -
Yorkshire - 1 £425 -

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Developer in Test 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 featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 10 (90.91%) Software Testing
1 10 (90.91%) SDET
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 7 (63.64%) Selenium
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) Java
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
5 5 (45.45%) C#
6 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
6 4 (36.36%) Azure
6 4 (36.36%) AWS
6 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
7 3 (27.27%) Octopus Deploy
7 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (27.27%) Fintech
7 3 (27.27%) Terraform
7 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
7 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
7 3 (27.27%) BDD
7 3 (27.27%) QA
7 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
7 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
7 3 (27.27%) TDD
7 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
7 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
7 3 (27.27%) SQL
8 2 (18.18%) MySQL
8 2 (18.18%) Oracle
8 2 (18.18%) JUnit

Developer in Test Skill Set
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 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 3 (27.27%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MariaDB
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
2 1 (9.09%) MongoDB
2 1 (9.09%) NoSQL
2 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (63.64%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
2 3 (27.27%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (27.27%) TeamCity
2 3 (27.27%) WebDriver
3 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
3 2 (18.18%) JMeter
3 2 (18.18%) JUnit
3 2 (18.18%) REST Assured
3 2 (18.18%) TestNG
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket
4 1 (9.09%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (9.09%) JIRA
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Back Office
2 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Gherkin
1 2 (18.18%) Web Services
2 1 (9.09%) .NET
2 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
2 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
2 1 (9.09%) RESTful
2 1 (9.09%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) SDET
1 10 (90.91%) Software Testing
2 9 (81.82%) CI/CD
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 7 (63.64%) Agile
4 6 (54.55%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) Fintech
5 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
5 3 (27.27%) TDD
5 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
6 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
7 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (9.09%) Business Case
7 1 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (9.09%) Service Catalogue
7 1 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) Java
2 5 (45.45%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
4 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 3 (27.27%) SQL
5 1 (9.09%) Python
5 1 (9.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft