Mobile Tester Contracts

Mobile Tester
UK

The median Mobile Tester daily rate in the UK is £341, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 574 700
Rank change year-on-year +59 +126 +133
Contract jobs requiring a Mobile Tester 5 8 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.018% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.020% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 12
10th Percentile £339 £215 £197
25th Percentile £340 £313 £248
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £341 £350 £375
Median % change year-on-year -2.57% -6.67% -18.70%
75th Percentile £364 £439 £493
90th Percentile £386 £468 £590
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £400 £248
% change year-on-year - +61.62% -46.49%

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 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Mobile Tester
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Mobile Tester.

Daily rate trend for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Mobile Tester.

Hourly rate trend for Mobile Tester in the UK

Mobile Tester
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Mobile Tester within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +55 5 £341 -2.57% 1
London +37 4 £341 -2.71% 1
Work from Home - 4 £353 -
UK excluding London +62 1 £400 -
North of England +18 1 £400 -
North West - 1 £400 -

Mobile Tester Skill Set
Top 20 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Mobile Tester 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 Mobile Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) Android
2 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (40.00%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (20.00%) Charles Proxy
4 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (20.00%) Appium
4 1 (20.00%) GitLab
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
4 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) QA
4 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration

Mobile Tester 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 1 (20.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (20.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Appium
1 1 (20.00%) Charles Proxy
1 1 (20.00%) GitLab
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Android
1 4 (80.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA