Test Consultant Contracts

Test Consultant
UK

The median Test Consultant daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 562 679 801
Rank change year-on-year +117 +122 -153
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 17 21 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.039% 0.035% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.037% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 44
10th Percentile £375 £356 £357
25th Percentile £477 £372 £379
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £415 £425
Median % change year-on-year +20.48% -2.35% -3.13%
75th Percentile £569 £481 £488
90th Percentile £713 £500 £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +9.38% +14.29% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - -

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 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
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 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
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 Test Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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
England +109 12 £525 +22.09% 2
Work from Home +119 11 £500 +25.00% 1
London +112 9 £563 +20.97%
UK excluding London +63 3 £438 +9.38% 2
North of England +25 1 £375 -16.67% 2
South East +23 1 £500 -
Yorkshire +20 1 £375 -25.00%
East of England - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 Test Consultant in the job title.

1 12 (70.59%) Test Automation
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
4 5 (29.41%) Selenium
4 5 (29.41%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) User Stories
4 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
5 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
5 4 (23.53%) Java
5 4 (23.53%) SQL
5 4 (23.53%) SimCorp
5 4 (23.53%) SimCorp Dimension
5 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
5 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
5 4 (23.53%) Investment Management
6 3 (17.65%) SoapUI
6 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
6 3 (17.65%) Oracle
6 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 3 (17.65%) JMeter
7 2 (11.76%) C#
7 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
7 2 (11.76%) IBM
7 2 (11.76%) JUnit
7 2 (11.76%) SAP
7 2 (11.76%) .NET

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 4 (23.53%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (5.88%) SAP FI
2 1 (5.88%) SAP Travel Management
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (5.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (5.88%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) Selenium
2 3 (17.65%) JMeter
2 3 (17.65%) SoapUI
3 2 (11.76%) Appium
3 2 (11.76%) Cucumber
3 2 (11.76%) eggPlant
3 2 (11.76%) Git
3 2 (11.76%) JUnit
3 2 (11.76%) Postman
3 2 (11.76%) REST Assured
3 2 (11.76%) SOAtest
3 2 (11.76%) TestNG
3 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
4 1 (5.88%) LoadRunner
4 1 (5.88%) NeoLoad
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Back Office
3 1 (5.88%) Banking
3 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.88%) Retail
3 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) ADO
2 1 (5.88%) SAP TM
2 1 (5.88%) SOAP
2 1 (5.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (70.59%) Test Automation
2 7 (41.18%) Migration
3 5 (29.41%) CI/CD
3 5 (29.41%) User Stories
4 4 (23.53%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (23.53%) Agile
4 4 (23.53%) Asset Management
4 4 (23.53%) Investment Management
4 4 (23.53%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Test Strategy
5 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
5 3 (17.65%) ETL
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (11.76%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.76%) Logistics
6 2 (11.76%) Order Management
6 2 (11.76%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Test Management
6 2 (11.76%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) Java
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) SimCorp
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) IBM
3 2 (11.76%) IBM Sterling
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
4 1 (5.88%) Databricks
4 1 (5.88%) HP
4 1 (5.88%) JDA
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce