Tester Contracts in London

Tester
England > London

The median Tester daily rate in London is £468, 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 247 252 333
Rank change year-on-year +5 +81 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 156 249 292
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.88% 0.99% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 1.04% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 191 210
10th Percentile £300 £325 £300
25th Percentile £370 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +22.22% +2.86%
75th Percentile £588 £666 £550
90th Percentile £705 £798 £650
England median daily rate £450 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.94% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 13
10th Percentile - - £15.75
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £90.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.44% +414.29% -
75th Percentile - - £36.00
90th Percentile - - £56.20
England median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +289.19% -57.31%

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%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in London

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in London

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Tester in London

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in London

Tester
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 Tester 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 +45 28 £538 +2.38% 1
East London 0 5 £300 -25.00% 1
West London +15 2 £363 -34.68% 3
South London +10 2 £428 +13.85% 1
North London - 1 £385 -
Tester
England

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

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

1 91 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 56 (35.90%) Agile
3 42 (26.92%) QA
4 37 (23.72%) Java
5 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
6 32 (20.51%) JIRA
7 30 (19.23%) Banking
7 30 (19.23%) Python
8 28 (17.95%) SQL
9 27 (17.31%) Software Testing
9 27 (17.31%) Scenario Testing
10 23 (14.74%) Scrum
10 23 (14.74%) Selenium
10 23 (14.74%) BDD
11 22 (14.10%) Finance
11 22 (14.10%) CI/CD
12 21 (13.46%) C#
12 21 (13.46%) Security Cleared
12 21 (13.46%) Performance Testing
13 20 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (12.82%) Azure
13 20 (12.82%) AWS
13 20 (12.82%) DevOps
13 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
13 20 (12.82%) Postman
14 19 (12.18%) Cucumber
14 19 (12.18%) Test Management
15 18 (11.54%) Cypress.io
16 16 (10.26%) Manual Testing
16 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills

Tester 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 10 (6.41%) Confluence
2 2 (1.28%) Apache
2 2 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.28%) CMS
2 2 (1.28%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (1.92%) Windchill
2 2 (1.28%) Mingle
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (3.21%) Endur
2 3 (1.92%) ENOVIA
2 3 (1.92%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.82%) AWS
1 20 (12.82%) Azure
2 10 (6.41%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (3.85%) BrowserStack
3 6 (3.85%) Firebase
4 5 (3.21%) BlazeMeter
5 4 (2.56%) GCP
5 4 (2.56%) Power Platform
5 4 (2.56%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (1.92%) AWS Lambda
6 3 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.92%) Figma
6 3 (1.92%) GitHub
6 3 (1.92%) Serverless
7 2 (1.28%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (1.28%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.28%) SaaS
7 2 (1.28%) Sentry
8 1 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.64%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.56%) Internet
2 2 (1.28%) BGP
2 2 (1.28%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (1.28%) HTTP
2 2 (1.28%) MPLS
2 2 (1.28%) VPN
3 1 (0.64%) Network Security
3 1 (0.64%) PuTTY
3 1 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
3 1 (0.64%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.05%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.21%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.56%) Oracle Database
3 4 (2.56%) Power BI
4 3 (1.92%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.28%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.64%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.64%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 32 (20.51%) JIRA
2 23 (14.74%) Selenium
3 20 (12.82%) Postman
4 19 (12.18%) Cucumber
5 18 (11.54%) Cypress.io
6 16 (10.26%) JMeter
7 14 (8.97%) Jenkins
8 12 (7.69%) SpecFlow
9 11 (7.05%) GitLab
10 10 (6.41%) Appium
11 9 (5.77%) Git
12 8 (5.13%) TestRail
13 6 (3.85%) FitNesse
13 6 (3.85%) SoapUI
13 6 (3.85%) WebDriver
14 5 (3.21%) LoadRunner
15 4 (2.56%) REST Assured
16 3 (1.92%) Katalon Studio
16 3 (1.92%) Team Foundation Server
16 3 (1.92%) TestComplete
General
1 34 (21.79%) Social Skills
2 30 (19.23%) Banking
3 22 (14.10%) Finance
4 16 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.26%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.97%) Back Office
6 11 (7.05%) Investment Banking
7 10 (6.41%) Front Office
8 7 (4.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (4.49%) Prime Brokerage
9 5 (3.21%) Wholesale Banking
10 2 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.28%) Retail
11 1 (0.64%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.64%) Billing
11 1 (0.64%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (7.69%) ADO
1 12 (7.69%) REST
2 9 (5.77%) .NET
2 9 (5.77%) Gherkin
3 7 (4.49%) AngularJS
4 6 (3.85%) Middleware
4 6 (3.85%) WebdriverIO
5 5 (3.21%) .NET Framework
6 4 (2.56%) GraphQL
6 4 (2.56%) Playwright
6 4 (2.56%) Web Services
7 3 (1.92%) CSS
7 3 (1.92%) FIX Protocol
7 3 (1.92%) JSON
7 3 (1.92%) pytest
7 3 (1.92%) XML
8 2 (1.28%) HTML
8 2 (1.28%) Node.js
8 2 (1.28%) React
8 2 (1.28%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.13%) Equities
1 8 (5.13%) Mobile App
2 5 (3.21%) Data Protection Act
2 5 (3.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (1.92%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.28%) Derivative
5 2 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.28%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.28%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.64%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.64%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.64%) Mobile Banking
6 1 (0.64%) NHS
6 1 (0.64%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.64%) Replication
6 1 (0.64%) Robotics
6 1 (0.64%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.64%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (3.21%) Android
1 5 (3.21%) Apple iOS
2 4 (2.56%) Unix
3 3 (1.92%) Windows
4 1 (0.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 56 (35.90%) Agile
3 27 (17.31%) Scenario Testing
3 27 (17.31%) Software Testing
4 23 (14.74%) BDD
4 23 (14.74%) Scrum
5 22 (14.10%) CI/CD
6 21 (13.46%) Performance Testing
7 20 (12.82%) Continuous Integration
7 20 (12.82%) DevOps
8 19 (12.18%) Test Management
9 16 (10.26%) End-to-End Testing
9 16 (10.26%) Manual Testing
10 15 (9.62%) Regression Testing
10 15 (9.62%) Test Planning
11 14 (8.97%) API Testing
11 14 (8.97%) Test Scripting
11 14 (8.97%) Test Strategy
12 13 (8.33%) Functional Testing
12 13 (8.33%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 37 (23.72%) Java
2 30 (19.23%) Python
3 28 (17.95%) SQL
4 21 (13.46%) C#
5 20 (12.82%) JavaScript
6 11 (7.05%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.92%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.92%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.92%) Swift
7 3 (1.92%) VB
7 3 (1.92%) VBA
8 2 (1.28%) Bash
8 2 (1.28%) C
8 2 (1.28%) C++
8 2 (1.28%) Groovy
8 2 (1.28%) Perl
8 2 (1.28%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.28%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (13.46%) Security Cleared
2 14 (8.97%) Degree
3 13 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 9 (5.77%) ISTQB
5 5 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.21%) DV Cleared
5 5 (3.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 3 (1.92%) CREST Certified
6 3 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 3 (1.92%) OSCP
7 2 (1.28%) CEH
8 1 (0.64%) CCNA
8 1 (0.64%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.64%) CISM
8 1 (0.64%) CISSP
8 1 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (0.64%) GIAC
8 1 (0.64%) GPEN
8 1 (0.64%) ISEB
8 1 (0.64%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (26.92%) QA
2 9 (5.77%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.28%) WCAG
4 1 (0.64%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.64%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (3.85%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.28%) Grafana
3 1 (0.64%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.64%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 12 (7.69%) Oracle
2 7 (4.49%) Microsoft
3 6 (3.85%) Splunk
4 5 (3.21%) Google
5 3 (1.92%) Adobe
5 3 (1.92%) PTC
5 3 (1.92%) Qualtrics
5 3 (1.92%) Siemens
6 2 (1.28%) Atlassian
6 2 (1.28%) CA Agile Central
6 2 (1.28%) Dynatrace
6 2 (1.28%) OpenLink
6 2 (1.28%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.28%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.64%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.64%) Cisco
7 1 (0.64%) HP
7 1 (0.64%) Micro Focus
7 1 (0.64%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.64%) SAP