Senior Test Consultant Contracts

Senior Test Consultant
UK

The median Senior Test Consultant daily rate in the UK is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 515 594 -
Rank change year-on-year +79 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Consultant 5 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.017% 0.009% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.018% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £481 £638 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% - -
75th Percentile £494 £713 -
90th Percentile £528 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +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 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

Senior Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Consultant in the UK

Senior Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Consultant in the UK

Senior Test Consultant
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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 +56 5 £488 -27.78%
London +43 5 £488 -27.78%
Work from Home +47 4 £488 -27.78%

Senior Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Senior Test Consultant 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 Senior Test Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Serenity BDD
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (80.00%) JMeter
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) New Relic
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (80.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (80.00%) Perfmon
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (20.00%) SAP ERP

Senior Test Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
1 4 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JMeter
1 4 (80.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (80.00%) Serenity BDD
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Containerisation
1 4 (80.00%) Defect Management
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) Microservices
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (80.00%) Performance Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) ERP
2 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (80.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 4 (80.00%) Perfmon
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Dynatrace
1 4 (80.00%) New Relic
2 1 (20.00%) Ariba
2 1 (20.00%) SAP