Exploratory Testing Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 70 -
Rank change year-on-year -14 - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.11% 0.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.13% 0.15% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £315 £475 £413
% change year-on-year -33.68% +15.15% -6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 777 650 1,102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 86.33% 86.44% 90.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 520 401 712
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
75th Percentile £575 £567 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £481 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.33% -2.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 13
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.38 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.87 £18.14 £16.92
Median hourly rate £22.14 £30.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.20% +57.89% -11.63%
75th Percentile £46.56 £39.44 £21.97
90th Percentile £81.25 £84.52 £29.42
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.08 £21.00 £21.66
% change year-on-year +19.40% -3.02% +3.12%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Exploratory Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Exploratory Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Leeds -12 1 - -
Exploratory Testing
Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) TestRail
1 1 (100.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA