Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 284 247 253
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 -63
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 101 210 296
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.91% 0.97%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.97% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 148 219
10th Percentile £205 £300 £288
25th Percentile £341 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £406
Median % change year-on-year - +4.68% +0.87%
75th Percentile £511 £500 £500
90th Percentile £611 £573 £541
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 11
10th Percentile - - £9.50
25th Percentile £10.24 £52.00 £15.88
Median hourly rate £10.30 £54.00 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -80.93% +191.89% -41.27%
75th Percentile £10.36 £56.00 £34.11
90th Percentile - - £47.50
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +311.43% -61.11%

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 18,772 21,693 29,145
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.28% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,127 20,437
10th Percentile £213 £225 £204
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,104 1,447
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.07 £14.29
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 £44.85
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the UK excluding London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the UK excluding London

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 Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 18 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
North of England -11 35 £475 +15.50% 16
South East +12 26 £425 +1.19% 9
Yorkshire +9 22 £475 +5.56% 7
Midlands +13 13 £350 -17.65% 10
South West -4 13 £541 +20.28% 8
North West -3 10 £400 +17.65% 8
East Midlands +11 9 £365 -5.19% 3
Scotland +27 8 £375 -12.38% 4
Northern Ireland +8 5 £650 - 4
West Midlands +15 4 £203 -60.49% 7
North East -1 3 £600 +36.36% 1
Wales - 1 £509 - 2
Tester
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 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 UK excluding London region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 59 (58.42%) Test Automation
2 32 (31.68%) Agile
3 30 (29.70%) Selenium
4 26 (25.74%) Java
5 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
6 19 (18.81%) Test Scripting
6 19 (18.81%) QA
6 19 (18.81%) Software Testing
6 19 (18.81%) Azure
7 18 (17.82%) JavaScript
7 18 (17.82%) Python
8 16 (15.84%) C#
9 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
10 14 (13.86%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (13.86%) Functional Testing
10 14 (13.86%) DevOps
10 14 (13.86%) Scenario Testing
11 13 (12.87%) Manual Testing
11 13 (12.87%) SQL
11 13 (12.87%) CI/CD
12 11 (10.89%) Regression Testing
12 11 (10.89%) JMeter
12 11 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
13 10 (9.90%) Scrum
14 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared
14 9 (8.91%) Linux
14 9 (8.91%) REST
14 9 (8.91%) Test Strategy
15 8 (7.92%) Mobile App

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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.98%) Apache
1 2 (1.98%) Confluence
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.99%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.99%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 19 (18.81%) Azure
2 11 (10.89%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (7.92%) GitHub
4 7 (6.93%) AWS
5 3 (2.97%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.98%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.99%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (0.99%) Figma
7 1 (0.99%) GCP
7 1 (0.99%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.99%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.99%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.95%) Wireless
2 2 (1.98%) Firewall
3 1 (0.99%) BGP
3 1 (0.99%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (0.99%) MPLS
3 1 (0.99%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.99%) SMS
3 1 (0.99%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.94%) SQL Server
2 2 (1.98%) MariaDB
2 2 (1.98%) MySQL
2 2 (1.98%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.99%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.99%) Big Data
3 1 (0.99%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.99%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.99%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.99%) Metadata
3 1 (0.99%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.99%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.99%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 30 (29.70%) Selenium
2 11 (10.89%) JMeter
3 8 (7.92%) Postman
4 7 (6.93%) Cucumber
4 7 (6.93%) JIRA
5 6 (5.94%) WebDriver
6 4 (3.96%) Cypress.io
6 4 (3.96%) Jenkins
6 4 (3.96%) JUnit
6 4 (3.96%) Maven
6 4 (3.96%) SoapUI
7 3 (2.97%) NUnit
7 3 (2.97%) Visual Studio
7 3 (2.97%) Zephyr
8 2 (1.98%) Appium
8 2 (1.98%) Git
8 2 (1.98%) GitLab
8 2 (1.98%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.98%) TestComplete
8 2 (1.98%) TestRail
General
1 15 (14.85%) Social Skills
2 7 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (6.93%) Telecoms
3 6 (5.94%) Manufacturing
3 6 (5.94%) Public Sector
4 5 (4.95%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (4.95%) Finance
5 4 (3.96%) Legal
6 2 (1.98%) Banking
7 1 (0.99%) Electronics
7 1 (0.99%) Games
7 1 (0.99%) German Language
7 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.99%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.91%) REST
2 7 (6.93%) JSON
3 6 (5.94%) XML
4 5 (4.95%) .NET
5 4 (3.96%) Gherkin
5 4 (3.96%) Playwright
5 4 (3.96%) Spring Boot
5 4 (3.96%) Web Services
6 3 (2.97%) SOAP
6 3 (2.97%) Spring
7 2 (1.98%) HTML
8 1 (0.99%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.99%) AngularJS
8 1 (0.99%) CSS
8 1 (0.99%) GraphQL
8 1 (0.99%) Kafka
8 1 (0.99%) LDAP
8 1 (0.99%) RESTful
8 1 (0.99%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.99%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.92%) Mobile App
2 6 (5.94%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.95%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.98%) PKI
4 2 (1.98%) Security Posture
5 1 (0.99%) Algorithms
5 1 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.99%) Cyberattack
5 1 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.99%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.99%) e-Learning
5 1 (0.99%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.91%) Linux
2 5 (4.95%) Windows
3 3 (2.97%) Android
4 2 (1.98%) Apple iOS
4 2 (1.98%) Unix
5 1 (0.99%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (58.42%) Test Automation
2 32 (31.68%) Agile
3 19 (18.81%) Software Testing
3 19 (18.81%) Test Scripting
4 14 (13.86%) DevOps
4 14 (13.86%) Functional Testing
4 14 (13.86%) Scenario Testing
4 14 (13.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (12.87%) CI/CD
5 13 (12.87%) Manual Testing
6 11 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (10.89%) Regression Testing
7 10 (9.90%) Scrum
8 9 (8.91%) Test Strategy
9 8 (7.92%) Acceptance Criteria
9 8 (7.92%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (7.92%) Penetration Testing
9 8 (7.92%) Red Team
10 7 (6.93%) System Integration Testing
10 7 (6.93%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (25.74%) Java
2 18 (17.82%) JavaScript
2 18 (17.82%) Python
3 16 (15.84%) C#
4 13 (12.87%) SQL
5 8 (7.92%) C++
6 4 (3.96%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.98%) C
7 2 (1.98%) Delphi
7 2 (1.98%) VBScript
8 1 (0.99%) Bash
8 1 (0.99%) Perl
8 1 (0.99%) Ruby
8 1 (0.99%) Scala
8 1 (0.99%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.99%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (20.79%) Security Cleared
2 9 (8.91%) SC Cleared
3 8 (7.92%) CREST Certified
3 8 (7.92%) OSCP
4 6 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.95%) CEH
5 5 (4.95%) GIAC
5 5 (4.95%) GPEN
6 1 (0.99%) Degree
6 1 (0.99%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.99%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (18.81%) QA
2 6 (5.94%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.95%) Accessibility
3 5 (4.95%) NIST
4 2 (1.98%) Software Quality Assurance
4 2 (1.98%) WCAG
5 1 (0.99%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (6.93%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.97%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.98%) Kibana
3 1 (0.99%) Ansible
3 1 (0.99%) Grafana
3 1 (0.99%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (5.94%) ServiceNow
2 5 (4.95%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.96%) Oracle
4 1 (0.99%) Cloudera
4 1 (0.99%) Databricks
4 1 (0.99%) Google
4 1 (0.99%) Salesforce