Senior Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Senior Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Senior Tester daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 439 607
Rank change year-on-year +101 +168 -110
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Tester 3 18 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.075% 0.036%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.079% 0.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 14 14
10th Percentile £389 £416 £380
25th Percentile £411 £433 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £575 £530
Median % change year-on-year -16.30% +8.49% +25.15%
75th Percentile £561 £613 £550
90th Percentile £588 £630 £628
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £488
% change year-on-year -13.04% +17.95% +16.07%

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 13,801 22,740 41,944
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.53% 95.25% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,306 16,147 30,496
10th Percentile £325 £360 £358
25th Percentile £425 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 528 563
10th Percentile £14.27 £16.98 £14.05
25th Percentile £22.59 £25.00 £19.96
Median hourly rate £43.50 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.00% +25.00% +70.21%
75th Percentile £63.56 £66.05 £59.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.15 £69.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Senior Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Senior Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Senior Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Senior Tester.

Senior Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Senior Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Senior Tester over the 6 months to 17 June 2024.

Senior Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2024, Senior 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 Senior Tester in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Agile

Senior 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 1 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
2 1 (33.33%) Git
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Front Office
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Dependency Management
2 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Security Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle