Developer in Test Contracts in London

Developer in Test
England > London

The median Developer in Test daily rate in London is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 376 423 552
Rank change year-on-year +47 +129 -40
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 5 8 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.039% 0.073%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.042% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 21
10th Percentile £403 £363 £390
25th Percentile £463 £513 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £551 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.71% +0.09% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £576 £638
90th Percentile £590 £590 £688
England median daily rate £475 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -9.52% -0.94% +11.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 14,705 19,194 35,324
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.92% 93.86% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,509 13,971 25,561
10th Percentile £338 £350 £375
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £790 £800 £788
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 161 212 302
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.02 £15.75
25th Percentile £24.50 £21.94 £20.25
Median hourly rate £39.00 £40.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -3.70% +25.58% +7.50%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.94 £57.50
90th Percentile £80.75 £76.25 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Developer in Test
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Developer in Test in London

Developer in Test
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Developer in Test in London.

Daily rate trend for Developer in Test in London

Developer in Test
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Developer in Test in London over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Developer in Test in London

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Developer in Test 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 London region featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) Agile
3 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (60.00%) RESTful
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) SDET
3 3 (60.00%) Microservices
3 3 (60.00%) GitLab
3 3 (60.00%) Git
4 2 (40.00%) API Testing
4 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) JIRA
4 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) AWS
4 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
4 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (40.00%) Spring
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (40.00%) ETL
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) JUnit
4 2 (40.00%) Python
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) SQL

Developer in Test Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (20.00%) Apache Spark
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Big Data
2 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (20.00%) Hadoop
2 1 (20.00%) MySQL
2 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (20.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) GitLab
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) JUnit
2 2 (40.00%) REST Assured
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (20.00%) Gatling
3 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (20.00%) Maven
3 1 (20.00%) NUnit
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) TestNG
3 1 (20.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
2 2 (40.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Hibernate
3 1 (20.00%) JPA
3 1 (20.00%) Node.js
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Spring Boot
3 1 (20.00%) WireMock
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Microservices
2 3 (60.00%) SDET
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) API Testing
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) ETL
3 2 (40.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (20.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Google
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle