Tester Contracts in the West Midlands

Tester
England > West Midlands

The median Tester daily rate in the West Midlands is £475, 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 77 107 124
Rank change year-on-year +30 +17 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 20 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.49% 0.21% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.64% 0.23% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 3 9
10th Percentile £431 £188 £330
25th Percentile £455 £193 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £203 £500
Median % change year-on-year +134.57% -59.50% +31.58%
75th Percentile £500 £352 £538
90th Percentile £504 £441 £610
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,221 1,776 2,262
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.78% 91.22% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 811 1,198 1,556
10th Percentile £200 £259 £250
25th Percentile £369 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £702 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 134 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.01 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £15.02
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.25 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.81% +14.10% +12.85%
75th Percentile £28.18 £42.31 £26.82
90th Percentile £35.58 £55.88 £55.63
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the West Midlands

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Tester in the West Midlands

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the West Midlands

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire +13 11 £475 - 2
Birmingham +21 7 £472 +132.84% 1
Shropshire - 1 £495 -
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 14 (70.00%) JIRA
2 11 (55.00%) SCADA
2 11 (55.00%) Systems Engineering
3 10 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 10 (50.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (45.00%) Functional Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Scrum
6 6 (30.00%) Oracle
6 6 (30.00%) QA
6 6 (30.00%) User Stories
6 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
6 6 (30.00%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (25.00%) MuleSoft
7 5 (25.00%) Defect Management
7 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (25.00%) HP ALM
7 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
7 5 (25.00%) Test Assurance
7 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
7 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 5 (25.00%) Test Management
7 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 5 (25.00%) HP
7 5 (25.00%) Middleware
8 4 (20.00%) Change Management
8 4 (20.00%) JMeter
8 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
9 3 (15.00%) Confluence

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 3 (15.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Appian
2 1 (5.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.00%) Azure
1 1 (5.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 14 (70.00%) JIRA
2 4 (20.00%) JMeter
3 3 (15.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) Selenium
4 2 (10.00%) Git
4 2 (10.00%) GitLab
4 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (10.00%) TestNG
4 2 (10.00%) Travis CI
5 1 (5.00%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.00%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.00%) Pa11y
General
1 5 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
3 1 (5.00%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (55.00%) SCADA
2 6 (30.00%) Legacy Systems
3 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
4 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Systems Engineering
2 10 (50.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 9 (45.00%) Functional Testing
4 7 (35.00%) Scrum
5 6 (30.00%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 6 (30.00%) User Stories
6 5 (25.00%) Defect Management
6 5 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Test Assurance
6 5 (25.00%) Test Management
6 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
7 4 (20.00%) Change Management
7 4 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 3 (15.00%) API Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Collaborative Working
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) Bash
1 2 (10.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) C#
2 1 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) CEH
1 2 (10.00%) CISSP
1 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (10.00%) Degree
1 2 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) HP ALM
2 2 (10.00%) Kibana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (30.00%) Oracle
2 5 (25.00%) HP
2 5 (25.00%) MuleSoft