Tester Contracts in Northern Ireland

Tester
UK > Northern Ireland

The median Tester daily rate in Northern Ireland is £650 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 28 34
Rank change year-on-year +9 +6 -
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 3.50% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.68% 0.56% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £555 - -
25th Percentile £581 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
75th Percentile £663 - -
90th Percentile £670 - -
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Northern Ireland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland. 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 Northern Ireland with a recognized job title 136 177 186
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.10% 89.85% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 77 86
10th Percentile £173 £163 £145
25th Percentile £313 £363 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £450 £419
Median % change year-on-year +8.33% +7.46% +2.13%
75th Percentile £625 £515 £500
90th Percentile £675 £638 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 7 22
10th Percentile - £13.91 £10.23
25th Percentile £12.25 £14.00 £11.13
Median hourly rate £15.51 £15.00 £15.61
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -3.91% +11.50%
75th Percentile £21.63 £16.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £29.37 £16.99 -
UK median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Northern Ireland

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in Northern Ireland.

Daily rate trend for Tester in Northern Ireland

Tester
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 16 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
County Antrim +5 4 £613 - 4
Tester
UK

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Tester 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 Northern Ireland region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Java
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (80.00%) Maven
3 3 (60.00%) REST
3 3 (60.00%) GitHub
3 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
3 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (40.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) Selenium
4 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (40.00%) System Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
4 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
4 2 (40.00%) .NET
4 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
4 2 (40.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) Linux
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) NUnit
5 1 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (20.00%) Web Services
5 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
5 1 (20.00%) Public Sector

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) NUnit
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) REST
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) .NET
3 1 (20.00%) Software Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Spring
3 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (40.00%) System Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft