Test Consultant Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Consultant
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Consultant daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £488, 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 297 334 465
Rank change year-on-year +37 +131 +120
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 7 11 12
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.071% 0.072% 0.046%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.075% 0.077% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 7
10th Percentile - £422 £243
25th Percentile £481 £477 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £400
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +25.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £494 £606 £425
90th Percentile £498 £713 £460
UK median daily rate £488 £500 £415
% change year-on-year -2.50% +20.48% -2.35%

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%

Test Consultant
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Consultant trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Consultant daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Consultant 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 Test Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) LoadRunner
2 4 (57.14%) JMeter
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) AWS
2 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Performance Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) New Relic
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Microservices
2 4 (57.14%) Defect Management
2 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
2 4 (57.14%) Perfmon
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (57.14%) Serenity BDD
2 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
4 2 (28.57%) Portfolio Management

Test Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Aladdin
1 2 (28.57%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) AWS
1 4 (57.14%) Azure
1 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JMeter
1 4 (57.14%) LoadRunner
1 4 (57.14%) Serenity BDD
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Algorithms
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
1 4 (57.14%) Containerisation
1 4 (57.14%) Defect Management
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Microservices
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Engineering
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Testing
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Root Cause Analysis
1 4 (57.14%) Software Testing
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Management
3 2 (28.57%) Order Management
3 2 (28.57%) Portfolio Management
3 2 (28.57%) System Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
1 5 (71.43%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) C#
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) Perfmon
2 2 (28.57%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Dynatrace
1 4 (57.14%) New Relic
2 2 (28.57%) HP
2 2 (28.57%) SimCorp