Test Consultant Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Consultant daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 396 423 497
Rank change year-on-year +27 +74 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 5 7 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.023% 0.031% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.033% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £390 £358 -
25th Percentile £431 £363 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -15.15%
75th Percentile £544 £475 £458
90th Percentile £570 £490 £522
UK median daily rate £563 £440 £419
% change year-on-year +27.84% +5.07% -2.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Consultant in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Consultant in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Consultant in the UK excluding London

Test Consultant
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 Test Consultant within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 June 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 +16 3 £538 -
North of England +15 1 £375 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire +14 1 £375 -25.00% 1
East of England - 1 - -
Test Consultant
UK

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Consultant in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 1 (20.00%) SAP TM
3 1 (20.00%) JDA
3 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
3 1 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (20.00%) ADO
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Firewall
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
3 1 (20.00%) SAP Travel Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared

Test Consultant 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) SAP FI
1 1 (20.00%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JMeter
2 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (40.00%) Maven
2 2 (40.00%) Selenium
3 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (20.00%) NeoLoad
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) ADO
2 1 (20.00%) SAP TM
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (40.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Engineering
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (20.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) JDA
1 1 (20.00%) SAP