Test Leader Contracts in London

Test Lead
England > London

The median Test Lead daily rate in London is £545 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 345 400 458
Rank change year-on-year +55 +58 -39
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 56 95 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.32% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.34% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 69 109
10th Percentile £396 £387 £400
25th Percentile £444 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +4.76% +15.38%
75th Percentile £603 £675 £550
90th Percentile £638 £702 £650
England median daily rate £500 £506 £490
% change year-on-year -1.23% +3.32% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.00 -
England median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 16,262 24,406 36,823
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 95.15% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,760 17,762 27,009
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £578 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.43% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.27% +7.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 319 282 435
10th Percentile £16.02 £18.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.22 £22.53 £22.59
Median hourly rate £27.50 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.61% +2.86% +15.32%
75th Percentile £44.25 £62.64 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.23 £82.48 £66.30
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +6.98%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
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 Leader within the London region over the 6 months to 23 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
Central London +40 6 £513 - 3
West London +22 5 £575 -
East London - 2 £575 -
North London - 1 £375 -
Test Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 23 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 London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 26 (46.43%) Test Strategy
2 21 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 17 (30.36%) Performance Testing
4 16 (28.57%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
6 14 (25.00%) QA
7 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (23.21%) DevOps
8 12 (21.43%) Azure
9 11 (19.64%) Test Management
9 11 (19.64%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (19.64%) Finance
9 11 (19.64%) Test Planning
9 11 (19.64%) Defect Management
9 11 (19.64%) Functional Testing
10 9 (16.07%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
11 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 8 (14.29%) Waterfall
12 7 (12.50%) JIRA
12 7 (12.50%) LoadRunner
13 6 (10.71%) Java
13 6 (10.71%) .NET
13 6 (10.71%) Roadmaps
13 6 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
13 6 (10.71%) Tricentis Tosca
13 6 (10.71%) System Integration Testing
13 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
13 6 (10.71%) Coaching

Test Leader 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 5 (8.93%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.79%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 6 (10.71%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (10.71%) Tricentis Tosca
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Monitor
3 3 (5.36%) Azure Pipelines
4 2 (3.57%) AWS
4 2 (3.57%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.79%) BlazeMeter
5 1 (1.79%) Datadog
5 1 (1.79%) dbt
5 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.79%) Firebase
5 1 (1.79%) GCP
5 1 (1.79%) Miro
5 1 (1.79%) SaaS
5 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.79%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.79%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.79%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.79%) DB2
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.79%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.79%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (12.50%) JIRA
1 7 (12.50%) LoadRunner
2 5 (8.93%) JMeter
2 5 (8.93%) NeoLoad
2 5 (8.93%) Selenium
3 4 (7.14%) Git
4 3 (5.36%) Postman
4 3 (5.36%) SpecFlow
5 2 (3.57%) Cucumber
5 2 (3.57%) Cypress.io
5 2 (3.57%) Jenkins
5 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio
5 2 (3.57%) Zephyr
6 1 (1.79%) Appium
6 1 (1.79%) JUnit
6 1 (1.79%) Maven
6 1 (1.79%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.79%) TestDirector
6 1 (1.79%) TestNG
6 1 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 15 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 11 (19.64%) Finance
3 5 (8.93%) Law
4 4 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.14%) Legal
5 3 (5.36%) Banking
5 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (5.36%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.57%) Back Office
6 2 (3.57%) Games
7 1 (1.79%) Front Office
7 1 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.71%) .NET
2 3 (5.36%) .NET Core
2 3 (5.36%) Playwright
2 3 (5.36%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) Middleware
3 2 (3.57%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.79%) ADO
4 1 (1.79%) ebXML
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
4 1 (1.79%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.14%) FMCG
2 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.57%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.79%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.79%) PDA
4 1 (1.79%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.36%) Linux
1 3 (5.36%) Windows
2 1 (1.79%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Test Strategy
2 21 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 17 (30.36%) Performance Testing
4 16 (28.57%) Agile
5 15 (26.79%) Stakeholder Management
6 13 (23.21%) DevOps
6 13 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (19.64%) Defect Management
7 11 (19.64%) Functional Testing
7 11 (19.64%) Test Management
7 11 (19.64%) Test Planning
7 11 (19.64%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (16.07%) Non-Functional Testing
9 8 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 8 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (14.29%) Waterfall
10 6 (10.71%) Coaching
10 6 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
10 6 (10.71%) Mentoring
10 6 (10.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Java
2 4 (7.14%) C#
2 4 (7.14%) SQL
3 3 (5.36%) Python
4 1 (1.79%) C
4 1 (1.79%) C++
4 1 (1.79%) ProC
4 1 (1.79%) Ruby
4 1 (1.79%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.93%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.93%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.14%) ISEB
3 3 (5.36%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.79%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (25.00%) QA
2 4 (7.14%) Accessibility
3 3 (5.36%) WCAG
4 1 (1.79%) EMIR
4 1 (1.79%) MiFID
4 1 (1.79%) PMO
Systems Management
1 1 (1.79%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.79%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (8.93%) CA Agile Central
1 5 (8.93%) iManage
1 5 (8.93%) Intapp
1 5 (8.93%) OpenAI
2 4 (7.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.14%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) SAP
4 2 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (1.79%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.79%) Charles River
5 1 (1.79%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.79%) Splunk
5 1 (1.79%) Temenos
5 1 (1.79%) VMware