Test Consultant Contracts in London

Test Consultant
England > London

The median Test Consultant daily rate in London is £510, 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 375 427 569
Rank change year-on-year +52 +142 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 6 4 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.038% 0.020% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.041% 0.021% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 6
10th Percentile £418 £446 £434
25th Percentile £425 £478 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -1.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £765 £520 £524
90th Percentile £767 £564 £550
England median daily rate £510 £430 £500
% change year-on-year +18.60% -14.00% +12.68%

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%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Consultant in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Consultant in London

Test Consultant
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Consultant within the London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Central London - 2 £638 -
Test Consultant
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Test Consultant 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 Test Consultant in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
3 1 (16.67%) Ariba
3 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) SimCorp
3 1 (16.67%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) White-Box Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD

Test Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SimCorp Dimension
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
2 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Application Security
3 1 (16.67%) Asset Management
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Data Management
3 1 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
3 1 (16.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Use Case
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) White-Box Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Ariba
2 1 (16.67%) SimCorp