Tester Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Tester
England > Yorkshire

The median Tester daily rate in Yorkshire is £375, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 80 73
Rank change year-on-year -34 -7 +45
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 19 10 38
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 1.02% 0.85% 2.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.12% 0.93% 2.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 29
10th Percentile £303 £263 £370
25th Percentile £360 £306 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.88% -10.76%
75th Percentile £400 £525 £445
90th Percentile £420 £565 £525
England median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +4.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 1,701 1,081 1,710
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.65% 91.53% 94.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,161 652 1,099
10th Percentile £250 £220 £262
25th Percentile £384 £360 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -0.99%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £638 £655 £682
England median daily rate £510 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 42 28
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.22 £14.79
25th Percentile £18.13 £18.53 £17.14
Median hourly rate £26.75 £23.34 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +14.61% +9.53% +0.28%
75th Percentile £81.25 £38.75 £24.51
90th Percentile - £42.50 £35.60
England median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Tester job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Yorkshire

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Yorkshire

Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Tester job vacancies in Yorkshire

Tester
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 Tester within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 2025. 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 -7 16 £375 +20.00% 2
North Yorkshire - 3 £315 -
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Yorkshire region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
3 8 (42.11%) Azure
4 7 (36.84%) JIRA
4 7 (36.84%) Validation
5 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
5 6 (31.58%) Python
6 5 (26.32%) Azure Storage
6 5 (26.32%) Confluence
6 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
6 5 (26.32%) JWT
6 5 (26.32%) Manual Testing
6 5 (26.32%) OAuth
6 5 (26.32%) SAML
6 5 (26.32%) Splunk
6 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
6 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
7 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
7 4 (21.05%) Agile
7 4 (21.05%) C#
7 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (21.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Playwright
7 4 (21.05%) Selenium
7 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
8 3 (15.79%) Cyber Resilience
8 3 (15.79%) Defect Management

Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 8 (42.11%) Azure
2 5 (26.32%) Azure Storage
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (36.84%) JIRA
2 6 (31.58%) Jenkins
3 4 (21.05%) Selenium
4 2 (10.53%) Postman
4 2 (10.53%) TestRail
4 2 (10.53%) Zephyr
5 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
5 1 (5.26%) Git
5 1 (5.26%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) JWT
1 5 (26.32%) OAuth
1 5 (26.32%) SAML
2 4 (21.05%) Playwright
3 1 (5.26%) .NET
3 1 (5.26%) FHIR
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
2 7 (36.84%) Validation
3 5 (26.32%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (26.32%) Manual Testing
3 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) Agile
4 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (21.05%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Vulnerability Management
5 3 (15.79%) Cyber Resilience
5 3 (15.79%) Defect Management
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Load Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Test Management
5 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
6 2 (10.53%) API Testing
6 2 (10.53%) BDD
6 2 (10.53%) CI/CD
6 2 (10.53%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 5 (26.32%) JavaScript
2 5 (26.32%) TypeScript
3 4 (21.05%) C#
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) XPath
Qualifications
1 10 (52.63%) SC Cleared
1 10 (52.63%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Splunk
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle