Lead Tester Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Lead Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Lead Tester daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £440, 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 301 342 472
Rank change year-on-year +41 +130 +155
Contract jobs requiring a Lead Tester 3 3 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.020% 0.019%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.021% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 4
10th Percentile £432 £370 £416
25th Percentile £435 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £500 £463
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +8.11% -11.06%
75th Percentile £533 £559 £475
90th Percentile £588 £565 -
UK median daily rate £440 £385 £601
% change year-on-year +14.29% -35.97% +6.42%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Lead Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Lead Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Lead Tester trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Lead Tester
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Lead Tester.

Lead Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Lead Tester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Lead Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Lead Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Lead 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Lead Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
2 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Postman
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) GitHub
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) C#
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) WCAG
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing

Lead Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) GCP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
1 2 (66.67%) Postman
1 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) API Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) TDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (33.33%) WCAG
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