Test Leader Contracts in London

Test Lead
England > London

The median Test Lead daily rate in London is £540, 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 339 376 461
Rank change year-on-year +37 +85 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 61 106 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.35% 0.42% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.44% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 76 106
10th Percentile £403 £391 £394
25th Percentile £438 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £538 £489
Median % change year-on-year +0.47% +9.92% +5.16%
75th Percentile £606 £675 £550
90th Percentile £635 £704 £644
England median daily rate £498 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.00 -
England median hourly rate £41.27 £52.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -20.64% +103.92% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Leader
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Leader in London

Test Leader
Contract Job Locations in 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 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
Central London +43 7 £475 -7.32%
West London +25 5 £575 -
East London - 3 £550 -
North London - 1 £375 -
Test Leader
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 29 (47.54%) Test Strategy
2 24 (39.34%) Test Automation
3 20 (32.79%) Performance Testing
4 18 (29.51%) Agile
5 16 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
6 14 (22.95%) DevOps
6 14 (22.95%) QA
7 13 (21.31%) Azure
7 13 (21.31%) Defect Management
7 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (19.67%) Functional Testing
8 12 (19.67%) Finance
9 11 (18.03%) User Acceptance Testing
9 11 (18.03%) Test Management
9 11 (18.03%) Test Planning
10 10 (16.39%) Non-Functional Testing
10 10 (16.39%) Waterfall
11 9 (14.75%) JIRA
11 9 (14.75%) LoadRunner
11 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
12 8 (13.11%) JMeter
13 7 (11.48%) Java
13 7 (11.48%) .NET
13 7 (11.48%) End-to-End Testing
13 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (11.48%) System Integration Testing
13 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
14 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
14 6 (9.84%) Mentoring

Test Leader Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 5 (8.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (6.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (8.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle HRMS
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Payroll
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 13 (21.31%) Azure
2 7 (11.48%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (9.84%) Tricentis Tosca
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.56%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (3.28%) AWS
5 2 (3.28%) BrowserStack
5 2 (3.28%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.64%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (1.64%) Datadog
6 1 (1.64%) dbt
6 1 (1.64%) Firebase
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.64%) Miro
6 1 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.64%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.64%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.64%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.64%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.64%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (1.64%) DB2
2 1 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.64%) RDBMS
2 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.64%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.75%) JIRA
1 9 (14.75%) LoadRunner
2 8 (13.11%) JMeter
3 5 (8.20%) NeoLoad
3 5 (8.20%) Selenium
4 4 (6.56%) Git
4 4 (6.56%) SpecFlow
5 3 (4.92%) Postman
5 3 (4.92%) Visual Studio
6 2 (3.28%) Cucumber
6 2 (3.28%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.28%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.28%) Zephyr
7 1 (1.64%) Appium
7 1 (1.64%) JUnit
7 1 (1.64%) Maven
7 1 (1.64%) SoapUI
7 1 (1.64%) TestDirector
7 1 (1.64%) TestNG
7 1 (1.64%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 12 (19.67%) Finance
3 6 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (8.20%) Law
5 4 (6.56%) Legal
6 3 (4.92%) Back Office
6 3 (4.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (4.92%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.28%) Banking
8 1 (1.64%) Billing
8 1 (1.64%) Front Office
8 1 (1.64%) Games
8 1 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.48%) .NET
2 4 (6.56%) .NET Core
2 4 (6.56%) Playwright
2 4 (6.56%) REST
3 2 (3.28%) ADO
3 2 (3.28%) Middleware
3 2 (3.28%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.64%) ebXML
4 1 (1.64%) SOAP
4 1 (1.64%) WebdriverIO
4 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.56%) FMCG
2 3 (4.92%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.28%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.64%) mPOS
4 1 (1.64%) PDA
4 1 (1.64%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.64%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Linux
3 1 (1.64%) Unix
3 1 (1.64%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (47.54%) Test Strategy
2 24 (39.34%) Test Automation
3 20 (32.79%) Performance Testing
4 18 (29.51%) Agile
5 16 (26.23%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (22.95%) DevOps
7 13 (21.31%) Defect Management
7 13 (21.31%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (19.67%) Functional Testing
9 11 (18.03%) Test Management
9 11 (18.03%) Test Planning
9 11 (18.03%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (16.39%) Non-Functional Testing
10 10 (16.39%) Waterfall
11 9 (14.75%) CI/CD
12 7 (11.48%) End-to-End Testing
12 7 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 7 (11.48%) System Integration Testing
13 6 (9.84%) Coaching
13 6 (9.84%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.48%) Java
2 5 (8.20%) C#
3 4 (6.56%) SQL
4 3 (4.92%) Python
5 1 (1.64%) C
5 1 (1.64%) C++
5 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.64%) ProC
5 1 (1.64%) Ruby
5 1 (1.64%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (8.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (8.20%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.56%) ISEB
3 3 (4.92%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (22.95%) QA
2 5 (8.20%) Accessibility
3 4 (6.56%) WCAG
4 1 (1.64%) EMIR
4 1 (1.64%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.64%) MiFID
4 1 (1.64%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.64%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.64%) Ansible
1 1 (1.64%) HP ALM
1 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.64%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (9.84%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.20%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (8.20%) iManage
2 5 (8.20%) Intapp
2 5 (8.20%) OpenAI
3 4 (6.56%) Oracle
4 2 (3.28%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.28%) HP
4 2 (3.28%) SAP
5 1 (1.64%) AppDynamics
5 1 (1.64%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.64%) Charles River
5 1 (1.64%) Citrix
5 1 (1.64%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.64%) Splunk
5 1 (1.64%) Temenos
5 1 (1.64%) VMware