Test Specialist Contract Job Trends in Westminster

Test Specialist
City of Westminster > Westminster

The median Test Specialist daily rate in Westminster is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 December 2025.

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

6 months to
18 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Westminster 5.88% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 6.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £425 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
75th Percentile £475 - -
90th Percentile - - -
City of Westminster median daily rate £450 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Westminster

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Westminster. 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 Westminster with a recognized job title 16 18 11
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.12% 94.74% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 10
10th Percentile £448 £388 £163
25th Percentile £453 £463 £173
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £185
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +183.78% -69.80%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £264
90th Percentile £788 £818 £401
City of Westminster median daily rate £510 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -2.86% -12.50% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £26.11 - £26.00
City of Westminster median hourly rate £26.11 - £26.00

Test Specialist Skill Set
Top 27 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster

For the 6 months to 18 December 2025, Test Specialist 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 across the Westminster region featuring Test Specialist in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) XML

Test Specialist Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Westminster 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Automate
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Integration
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (100.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft