Test Leader Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Lead
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Lead daily rate in the UK excluding London is £394 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 352 374
Rank change year-on-year +6 +22 -26
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 45 92 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.22% 0.40% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.43% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 67 101
10th Percentile - £363 £381
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.25% +11.11% +7.46%
75th Percentile £493 £581 £538
90th Percentile £554 £680 £588
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £490
% change year-on-year -2.44% +4.59% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.40 - -
Median hourly rate £41.27 - -
75th Percentile £44.13 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -

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 18,741 21,586 29,136
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.28% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,029 20,438
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £598 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,282 1,102 1,451
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.72 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Leader in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in the UK excluding London

Test Leader
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 Leader within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
East of England +14 14 £375 -49.53% 2
Midlands +19 9 £425 -19.43% 6
South West +14 8 £375 -34.78% 1
West Midlands +15 6 £425 -19.05% 5
Scotland +36 4 £638 +27.50% 2
North of England 0 4 £456 -8.75%
South East -5 4 £450 +12.50% 9
East Midlands +6 3 £395 -46.84% 1
Yorkshire +2 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
North West -1 1 £413 +3.13%
Test Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 18 (40.00%) Test Management
2 17 (37.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 16 (35.56%) QA
4 14 (31.11%) Test Strategy
4 14 (31.11%) Test Planning
5 13 (28.89%) Scenario Testing
6 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 12 (26.67%) Finance
7 11 (24.44%) JIRA
8 10 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
9 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
10 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (15.56%) Games
11 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
12 6 (13.33%) Defect Management
12 6 (13.33%) Agile
12 6 (13.33%) Windows
12 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
12 6 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
13 5 (11.11%) DevOps
13 5 (11.11%) Azure
13 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
13 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
13 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
14 4 (8.89%) Selenium
14 4 (8.89%) Degree
14 4 (8.89%) ERP
14 4 (8.89%) Oracle
14 4 (8.89%) Regression Testing
14 4 (8.89%) Integration Testing

Test Leader 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.22%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.22%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (11.11%) Azure
2 3 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.22%) AWS
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.22%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) JIRA
2 4 (8.89%) Selenium
3 3 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.67%) JMeter
4 1 (2.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.22%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (2.22%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.22%) TestRail
4 1 (2.22%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 12 (26.67%) Finance
2 9 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Games
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.44%) Banking
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.22%) Electronics
7 1 (2.22%) Marketing
7 1 (2.22%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.44%) Gherkin
1 2 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.22%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.22%) Playwright
2 1 (2.22%) RAML
2 1 (2.22%) REST
2 1 (2.22%) RESTful
2 1 (2.22%) SOAP
2 1 (2.22%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.22%) Equities
2 1 (2.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.22%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.22%) Public Cloud
2 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (6.67%) Unix
2 3 (6.67%) VMS
2 3 (6.67%) Windows 2000
2 3 (6.67%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Test Management
2 17 (37.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 14 (31.11%) Test Planning
3 14 (31.11%) Test Strategy
4 13 (28.89%) Scenario Testing
5 12 (26.67%) Test Automation
6 10 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
7 8 (17.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 7 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (13.33%) Agile
9 6 (13.33%) Defect Management
9 6 (13.33%) Non-Functional Testing
10 5 (11.11%) DevOps
10 5 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (8.89%) ERP
11 4 (8.89%) Integration Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Performance Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Regression Testing
11 4 (8.89%) Test Scripting
12 3 (6.67%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 2 (4.44%) SQL
3 1 (2.22%) C#
3 1 (2.22%) Java
3 1 (2.22%) ProC
3 1 (2.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 5 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.89%) Degree
3 3 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 2 (4.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (4.44%) ISEB
4 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
5 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.22%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (2.22%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.22%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (35.56%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.22%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.67%) Ansible
1 3 (6.67%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (4.44%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) HP ALM
3 1 (2.22%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (8.89%) Oracle
2 3 (6.67%) Fortinet
2 3 (6.67%) Juniper
2 3 (6.67%) SAP
3 2 (4.44%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.44%) VMware
4 1 (2.22%) Citrix
4 1 (2.22%) FIS
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) HP
4 1 (2.22%) Pega
4 1 (2.22%) Salesforce