Exploratory Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 18 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 119 141
Rank change year-on-year +17 +22 -47
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 2 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.12% 0.088% 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.096% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £468 - -
25th Percentile £475 £406 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £413 -
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% - -
75th Percentile £525 £419 -
90th Percentile £533 - -
England median daily rate £450 £488 £450
% change year-on-year -7.69% +8.33% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,439 2,078 2,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.32% 90.94% 89.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 862 1,370 1,823
10th Percentile £258 £262 £263
25th Percentile £388 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +10.03%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £532
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.38% +9.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 66 85
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.72
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -9.54%
75th Percentile £21.35 £21.74 £22.75
90th Percentile £48.40 £54.07 £27.15
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £23.96
% change year-on-year -6.17% +55.71% -0.19%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in Yorkshire

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 18 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West Yorkshire - 1 £475 -
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Finance Systems Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Financial Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) IFRS