Test Consultant Contract Job Trends

Test Consultant
UK

The median Test Consultant daily rate in the UK is £405, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 570 551 614
Rank change year-on-year -19 +63 +177
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 12 10 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.033% 0.028% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.037% 0.030% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 6 11
10th Percentile £290 £291 £375
25th Percentile £325 £336 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% -20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £515 £505 -
90th Percentile £589 £640 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £405 £350 £400
% change year-on-year +15.71% -12.50% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £65.00

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 32,598 33,656 42,848
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 92.81% 93.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,655 20,421 28,929
10th Percentile £281 £300 £290
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £649
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £496 £500
% change year-on-year -4.14% -0.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,903 1,218 1,519
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.24 £15.16
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £19.09
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -20.45% +46.67%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.50 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Test Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant over the 6 months to 30 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Test Consultant
Top 8 Contract Job 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 30 November 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 -24 8 £513 +13.89% 5
London +12 6 £530 +10.42% 2
Work from Home +9 3 £350 -22.22% 3
UK excluding London -15 3 £405 +15.71% 5
Midlands - 1 £405 -
Wales - 1 £275 -
West Midlands - 1 £405 -
East of England - 1 £565 - 3

Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 November 2025, Test Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Test Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 3 (25.00%) API Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Azure
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Java
3 3 (25.00%) Oracle
3 3 (25.00%) QA
3 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
3 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) GDPR
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Python
4 2 (16.67%) SAP

Test Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (16.67%) Oracle EBS R12
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Functions
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Logic Apps
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
2 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Locust
4 1 (8.33%) NeoLoad
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Billing
2 2 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) OAuth
1 1 (8.33%) OpenAPI
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile
1 5 (41.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 3 (25.00%) API Testing
3 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (16.67%) Customer Service
4 2 (16.67%) ERP
4 2 (16.67%) Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) Python
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Oracle
1 3 (25.00%) Salesforce
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow