Test Leader Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Lead
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Lead daily rate in Work from Home is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 309 364 476
Rank change year-on-year +55 +112 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 43 106 159
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.28% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.30% 0.43% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 77 120
10th Percentile £400 £363 £400
25th Percentile £407 £406 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.38% -3.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £623 £600 £579
90th Percentile £734 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £25.00
UK median hourly rate - £36.86 £25.50
% change year-on-year - +44.55% -36.25%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,380 24,650 42,718
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.33% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,617 17,416 30,864
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +2.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 564 610
10th Percentile £14.30 £18.50 £13.10
25th Percentile £23.25 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £45.00 £23.46
% change year-on-year -20.00% +91.86% +3.42%

Test Leader
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Leader trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
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 Test Leader.

Test Leader daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Leader over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Test Leader daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Leader
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Leader.

Test Leader hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 29 April 2024, Test Leader 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 Leader in the job title.

1 19 (44.19%) Test Strategy
2 16 (37.21%) Test Automation
3 12 (27.91%) JIRA
4 11 (25.58%) Finance
5 9 (20.93%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (18.60%) Agile
6 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
7 7 (16.28%) Migration
7 7 (16.28%) SAP
7 7 (16.28%) QA
7 7 (16.28%) Test Scripting
8 6 (13.95%) Integration Testing
8 6 (13.95%) Test Management
8 6 (13.95%) Azure
8 6 (13.95%) Project Management
8 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
9 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
9 5 (11.63%) Windows
9 5 (11.63%) ERP
9 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
9 5 (11.63%) Selenium
10 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
10 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
10 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
10 4 (9.30%) Oracle
10 4 (9.30%) JMeter
10 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (9.30%) Banking
10 4 (9.30%) Scenario Testing

Test Leader 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.33%) CICS
1 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Loan IQ
2 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.33%) iTrent
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.33%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.33%) SAP CO
2 1 (2.33%) SAP FI
2 1 (2.33%) SAP FI/CO
2 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.33%) SAP SCM
2 1 (2.33%) Temenos T24
2 1 (2.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.95%) Azure
2 4 (9.30%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.65%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.33%) Miro
4 1 (2.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.65%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.33%) DB2
1 1 (2.33%) IDMS
1 1 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) JIRA
2 5 (11.63%) Selenium
3 4 (9.30%) Cucumber
3 4 (9.30%) JMeter
4 3 (6.98%) TestRail
5 2 (4.65%) Postman
6 1 (2.33%) HP UFT
6 1 (2.33%) JUnit
6 1 (2.33%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.33%) Maven
6 1 (2.33%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.33%) TestNG
6 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (2.33%) WebDriver
6 1 (2.33%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (25.58%) Finance
2 8 (18.60%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Public Sector
4 4 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Banking
5 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.65%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.65%) Marketing
7 1 (2.33%) Advertising
7 1 (2.33%) Electronics
7 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Retail
7 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
1 2 (4.65%) REST
2 1 (2.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.33%) Playwright
2 1 (2.33%) SOAP
2 1 (2.33%) Web Services
2 1 (2.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.65%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.33%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.33%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.33%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
3 2 (4.65%) VMS
3 2 (4.65%) Windows 2000
3 2 (4.65%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (44.19%) Test Strategy
2 16 (37.21%) Test Automation
3 9 (20.93%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (18.60%) Agile
5 7 (16.28%) Migration
5 7 (16.28%) Test Scripting
6 6 (13.95%) Integration Testing
6 6 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.95%) Project Management
6 6 (13.95%) Test Management
7 5 (11.63%) CI/CD
7 5 (11.63%) ERP
8 4 (9.30%) Defect Management
8 4 (9.30%) DevOps
8 4 (9.30%) Non-Functional Testing
8 4 (9.30%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (9.30%) System Integration Testing
8 4 (9.30%) Test Planning
9 3 (6.98%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
1 2 (4.65%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.33%) Assembly Language
2 1 (2.33%) COBOL
2 1 (2.33%) Java
2 1 (2.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.33%) JCL
2 1 (2.33%) Python
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.30%) ISTQB
2 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.98%) ISEB
4 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (2.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (2.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (16.28%) QA
2 3 (6.98%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.33%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) HP ALM
2 2 (4.65%) Ansible
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) SAP
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) HP
4 2 (4.65%) Citrix
4 2 (4.65%) Fortinet
4 2 (4.65%) Juniper
4 2 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.65%) UiPath
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) FIS
5 1 (2.33%) IBM
5 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.33%) Temenos
5 1 (2.33%) VMware
5 1 (2.33%) Workday