Test Specialist Contracts in England

Test Specialist
UK > England

The median Test Specialist daily rate in England is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 623 737
Rank change year-on-year +96 +114 -116
Contract jobs requiring a Test Specialist 16 15 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.043% 0.032% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.033% 0.065%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 31
10th Percentile £384 £368 £350
25th Percentile £399 £411 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £462 £360
Median % change year-on-year -2.60% +28.33% -19.55%
75th Percentile £464 £500 £455
90th Percentile £471 £550 £500
UK median daily rate £450 £462 £400
% change year-on-year -2.60% +15.50% -10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £66.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £66.00 - -

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 34,161 44,903 67,296
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.57% 95.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,530 31,932 48,137
10th Percentile £285 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,560 1,303 1,794
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.75
Median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Test Specialist
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Specialist in England

Test Specialist
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Specialist in England

Test Specialist
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Specialist in England

Test Specialist
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 Specialist within the England region over the 6 months to 31 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 +89 9 £414 -10.44%
South East +13 4 - -
South West +9 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £453 -
Midlands - 1 £453 -
Test Specialist
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Test Specialist 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 Specialist in the job title.

1 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) QA
3 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
3 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
4 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 3 (18.75%) Creative Thinking
4 3 (18.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (18.75%) Validation
4 3 (18.75%) Business Continuity
4 3 (18.75%) SQL
4 3 (18.75%) Oracle
4 3 (18.75%) ITIL
4 3 (18.75%) Unix
4 3 (18.75%) BT
4 3 (18.75%) JMeter
4 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 2 (12.50%) JIRA
5 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
5 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
5 2 (12.50%) Java

Test Specialist 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 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Azure API Management
1 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) JMeter
2 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (6.25%) LoadRunner
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
General
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Test Automation
2 4 (25.00%) Agile
2 4 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (18.75%) Business Continuity
3 3 (18.75%) Creative Thinking
3 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Software Testing
3 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
3 3 (18.75%) Validation
4 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (12.50%) Generative AI
4 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
4 2 (12.50%) Manual Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Risk Assessment
4 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (6.25%) API Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 2 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (12.50%) Shell Script
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) DV Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Grafana
1 1 (6.25%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) BT
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft