Applications Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Application Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Application Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £600 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 395 436 509
Rank change year-on-year +41 +73 -64
Contract jobs requiring an Applications Tester 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.019% 0.009% 0.013%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.021% 0.009% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £298
25th Percentile - £290 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £300 £400
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -25.00% -15.79%
75th Percentile - £310 £456
90th Percentile - - £483
UK median daily rate £300 £400 £350
% change year-on-year -25.00% +14.29% -22.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £18.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £17.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,202 21,479 29,126
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.24% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 14,946 20,475
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £390 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,406 1,077 1,407
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.91
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.02
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.06
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Applications Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Applications Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Applications Tester in the UK excluding London

Applications Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Applications Tester in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Applications Tester in the UK excluding London

Applications Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Applications Tester in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Applications Tester in the UK excluding London

Applications Tester
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Tester within the UK excluding London 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
South East +12 2 - -
South West - 2 £600 - 1
Applications Tester
UK

Applications Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 31 May 2024, Applications 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 UK excluding London region featuring Applications Tester in the job title.

1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Red Team
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
2 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (25.00%) User Stories
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 1 (25.00%) BDD
2 1 (25.00%) SoapUI

Applications Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Android Studio
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (25.00%) Xcode
General
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (25.00%) Cyberattack
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Red Team
2 1 (25.00%) Agile
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Offensive Security
2 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Test Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Detection
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
2 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CREST Certified
1 2 (50.00%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA