Test Leader Contracts in England

Test Lead
UK > England

The median Test Lead daily rate in England is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 433 460 482
Rank change year-on-year +27 +22 -4
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 98 186 316
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.27% 0.38% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.29% 0.41% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 136 224
10th Percentile £363 £369 £388
25th Percentile £398 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.36% +8.67%
75th Percentile £578 £641 £558
90th Percentile £625 £700 £646
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £490
% change year-on-year -4.76% +7.14% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.05
25th Percentile £38.40 - £25.13
Median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -
75th Percentile £44.13 - £26.13
90th Percentile - - £26.35
UK median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Leader in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Leader in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in England

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Leader within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +61 58 £550 - 9
East of England +17 14 £375 -49.53% 2
Midlands +12 9 £425 -19.43% 7
South West +10 8 £375 -34.78% 1
West Midlands +13 6 £425 -19.05% 6
South East +2 4 £450 +12.50% 11
North of England -4 4 £456 -3.95%
East Midlands +15 3 £395 -46.84% 1
Yorkshire +5 2 - -
North West -4 1 £413 +3.13%
Test Leader
UK

Test Leader Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 job ads across the England region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 38 (38.78%) Test Strategy
2 31 (31.63%) Test Automation
3 30 (30.61%) QA
4 27 (27.55%) User Acceptance Testing
5 25 (25.51%) Test Management
6 24 (24.49%) Test Planning
7 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
8 21 (21.43%) Agile
9 20 (20.41%) Performance Testing
10 19 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
10 19 (19.39%) Finance
11 18 (18.37%) Scenario Testing
12 17 (17.35%) JIRA
12 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
13 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 15 (15.31%) Azure
14 15 (15.31%) DevOps
15 13 (13.27%) Acceptance Criteria
16 12 (12.24%) Defect Management
16 12 (12.24%) Functional Testing
17 11 (11.22%) Non-Functional Testing
17 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
17 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
18 10 (10.20%) CI/CD
19 9 (9.18%) Games
19 9 (9.18%) System Integration Testing
20 8 (8.16%) Waterfall
20 8 (8.16%) Migration
20 8 (8.16%) Selenium
20 8 (8.16%) Project Management

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Assets
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Cash Management
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle General Ledger
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Payables
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.04%) Loan IQ
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.02%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle HRMS
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payroll
4 1 (1.02%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (1.02%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.31%) Azure
2 7 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
3 3 (3.06%) AWS
3 3 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (3.06%) Azure Pipelines
3 3 (3.06%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.04%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.02%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.02%) Datadog
5 1 (1.02%) dbt
5 1 (1.02%) Firebase
5 1 (1.02%) GCP
5 1 (1.02%) Miro
5 1 (1.02%) SaaS
5 1 (1.02%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.06%) Firewall
2 1 (1.02%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.02%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.02%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.02%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.02%) DB2
2 1 (1.02%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.02%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.02%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.02%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (17.35%) JIRA
2 8 (8.16%) Selenium
3 7 (7.14%) JMeter
3 7 (7.14%) LoadRunner
4 5 (5.10%) Cucumber
4 5 (5.10%) NeoLoad
5 4 (4.08%) Git
6 3 (3.06%) Cypress.io
6 3 (3.06%) Postman
6 3 (3.06%) SpecFlow
6 3 (3.06%) TestRail
7 2 (2.04%) Jenkins
7 2 (2.04%) Visual Studio
7 2 (2.04%) Zephyr
8 1 (1.02%) JUnit
8 1 (1.02%) Maven
8 1 (1.02%) SoapUI
8 1 (1.02%) TestDirector
8 1 (1.02%) TestNG
8 1 (1.02%) WebDriver
General
1 22 (22.45%) Social Skills
2 19 (19.39%) Finance
3 9 (9.18%) Games
4 7 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.10%) Law
6 5 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 4 (4.08%) Banking
7 4 (4.08%) Legal
8 2 (2.04%) Back Office
8 2 (2.04%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.02%) Electronics
9 1 (1.02%) Front Office
9 1 (1.02%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.02%) Marketing
9 1 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.02%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.12%) .NET
2 5 (5.10%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (4.08%) Playwright
3 4 (4.08%) REST
4 3 (3.06%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.04%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.04%) Middleware
5 2 (2.04%) SOAP
6 1 (1.02%) ADO
6 1 (1.02%) ebXML
6 1 (1.02%) OpenAPI
6 1 (1.02%) RAML
6 1 (1.02%) RESTful
6 1 (1.02%) Swagger
6 1 (1.02%) WebdriverIO
6 1 (1.02%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.08%) FMCG
1 4 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.06%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.04%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.02%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.02%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.02%) PDA
4 1 (1.02%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.02%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Windows
2 4 (4.08%) Unix
3 3 (3.06%) Linux
3 3 (3.06%) VMS
3 3 (3.06%) Windows 2000
3 3 (3.06%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (38.78%) Test Strategy
2 31 (31.63%) Test Automation
3 27 (27.55%) User Acceptance Testing
4 25 (25.51%) Test Management
5 24 (24.49%) Test Planning
6 21 (21.43%) Agile
7 20 (20.41%) Performance Testing
8 19 (19.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (18.37%) Scenario Testing
10 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (15.31%) DevOps
13 13 (13.27%) Acceptance Criteria
14 12 (12.24%) Defect Management
14 12 (12.24%) Functional Testing
15 11 (11.22%) Non-Functional Testing
16 10 (10.20%) CI/CD
17 9 (9.18%) System Integration Testing
18 8 (8.16%) Migration
18 8 (8.16%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.14%) Java
2 6 (6.12%) SQL
3 5 (5.10%) C#
4 4 (4.08%) Shell Script
5 3 (3.06%) PowerShell
5 3 (3.06%) Python
6 2 (2.04%) ProC
7 1 (1.02%) C
7 1 (1.02%) C++
7 1 (1.02%) Ruby
7 1 (1.02%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
1 11 (11.22%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.10%) ISEB
3 3 (3.06%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (2.04%) Degree
4 2 (2.04%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.02%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (30.61%) QA
2 4 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.06%) WCAG
4 1 (1.02%) EMIR
4 1 (1.02%) MiFID
4 1 (1.02%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (2.04%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.04%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (3.06%) Ansible
1 3 (3.06%) Kubernetes
1 3 (3.06%) Terraform
2 2 (2.04%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.02%) Grafana
3 1 (1.02%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.02%) Kibana
Vendors
1 7 (7.14%) Oracle
2 6 (6.12%) Microsoft
2 6 (6.12%) SAP
3 5 (5.10%) CA Agile Central
3 5 (5.10%) iManage
3 5 (5.10%) Intapp
3 5 (5.10%) OpenAI
4 3 (3.06%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.06%) HP
4 3 (3.06%) Juniper
4 3 (3.06%) VMware
5 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.02%) AppDynamics
6 1 (1.02%) Bloomberg
6 1 (1.02%) Citrix
6 1 (1.02%) FIS
6 1 (1.02%) Pega
6 1 (1.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.02%) Splunk