Developer in Test Contracts

Developer in Test
UK

The median Developer in Test daily rate in the UK is £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
4 Jul 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 540 586 638
Rank change year-on-year +46 +52 +175
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 11 9 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.021% 0.075%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.022% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 28
10th Percentile £408 £344 £400
25th Percentile £431 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £486 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% -15.57% +15.00%
75th Percentile £451 £525 £695
90th Percentile £469 £648 £697
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £498 £475
% change year-on-year -7.13% +4.84% -2.56%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 29,079 40,388 53,054
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.02% 92.98% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,553 25,970 36,860
10th Percentile £288 £286 £313
25th Percentile £401 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -1.20% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,311 2,837 1,549
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.44 £16.65 £19.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £37.75 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.80% -12.21% +68.63%
75th Percentile £55.25 £62.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £74.00 £76.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -37.13% +1.01% +94.88%

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
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 4 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 +66 9 £438 -2.78% 10
Work from Home +43 6 £438 -7.89% 7
London +33 6 £438 -2.78% 7
UK excluding London +37 4 £463 -7.13% 6
Scotland 0 2 £466 -6.38% 3
North of England - 2 £370 -
North East - 1 - -
North West - 1 £370 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 July 2025, 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 11 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 11 (100.00%) SDET
2 9 (81.82%) Java
2 9 (81.82%) Selenium
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
5 6 (54.55%) QA
5 6 (54.55%) Agile
5 6 (54.55%) Appium
5 6 (54.55%) GitLab
6 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
6 5 (45.45%) Scrum
6 5 (45.45%) JMeter
7 4 (36.36%) Python
7 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (36.36%) Logistics
7 4 (36.36%) Ruby
7 4 (36.36%) PHP
7 4 (36.36%) C#
7 4 (36.36%) C++
7 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
7 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
7 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
7 4 (36.36%) Kanban
7 4 (36.36%) Scala
7 4 (36.36%) Azure
7 4 (36.36%) Play Framework

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) JBoss
1 1 (9.09%) Tomcat
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (27.27%) AWS
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 2 (18.18%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon S3
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (9.09%) MariaDB
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
2 6 (54.55%) Appium
2 6 (54.55%) GitLab
3 5 (45.45%) Jenkins
3 5 (45.45%) JMeter
4 4 (36.36%) CircleCI
4 4 (36.36%) Gatling
4 4 (36.36%) NeoLoad
4 4 (36.36%) SpecFlow
5 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
6 2 (18.18%) JIRA
6 2 (18.18%) Postman
6 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
7 1 (9.09%) Git
7 1 (9.09%) Gradle
7 1 (9.09%) JUnit
7 1 (9.09%) Maven
7 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Play Framework
1 4 (36.36%) Playwright
2 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) HTML
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) REST
3 1 (9.09%) RESTful
3 1 (9.09%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) Spring
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
3 1 (9.09%) Spring Cloud
3 1 (9.09%) Spring MVC
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (100.00%) SDET
1 11 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
3 8 (72.73%) CI/CD
4 6 (54.55%) Agile
5 5 (45.45%) Performance Testing
5 5 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (45.45%) Scrum
6 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
6 4 (36.36%) DevOps
6 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
6 4 (36.36%) Kanban
6 4 (36.36%) Logistics
6 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (27.27%) BDD
7 3 (27.27%) Decision-Making
7 3 (27.27%) Microservices
8 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
8 2 (18.18%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
2 7 (63.64%) JavaScript
3 4 (36.36%) C#
3 4 (36.36%) C++
3 4 (36.36%) PHP
3 4 (36.36%) Python
3 4 (36.36%) Ruby
3 4 (36.36%) Scala
3 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
4 1 (9.09%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
1 4 (36.36%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
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