Tester Contracts in the South West

Tester
England > South West

The median Tester daily rate in the South West is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 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
26 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 127 139
Rank change year-on-year -9 +12 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 21 32 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.64% 0.94% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 1.02% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 25 26
10th Percentile £352 £372 £356
25th Percentile £516 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £475 £469
Median % change year-on-year +15.79% +1.33% +6.84%
75th Percentile £580 £538 £520
90th Percentile £590 £623 £538
England median daily rate £450 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.94% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £41.43
Median hourly rate - - £43.95
75th Percentile - - £46.48
90th Percentile - - -
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
South West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South West. 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 South West with a recognized job title 3,056 3,142 3,474
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 92.74% 95.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,896 2,308 2,517
10th Percentile £216 £284 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £620 £644 £600
90th Percentile £700 £721 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 456 252 212
10th Percentile £13.85 £17.70 £15.90
25th Percentile £27.50 £48.68 £18.49
Median hourly rate £55.00 £63.23 £47.64
Median % change year-on-year -13.02% +32.74% +10.78%
75th Percentile £71.25 £75.13 £63.60
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.40 £68.29
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 the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the South West

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Tester in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Tester in the South West

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the South West over the 6 months to 26 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the South West

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Tester in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the South West

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the South West region over the 6 months to 26 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
Wiltshire -8 12 £570 +26.67% 3
Gloucestershire +6 6 £463 -27.45% 4
Bristol +2 2 £315 -24.78% 3
Devon - 1 - - 2
Tester
England

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 26 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 South West region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
2 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
3 8 (38.10%) QA
3 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
3 8 (38.10%) DV Cleared
4 7 (33.33%) Java
4 7 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 6 (28.57%) SQL
5 6 (28.57%) Test Planning
6 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
6 5 (23.81%) C#
6 5 (23.81%) Python
7 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) OSCP
8 3 (14.29%) Ansible
8 3 (14.29%) GitLab
8 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (14.29%) Red Team
8 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 3 (14.29%) Terraform
8 3 (14.29%) CREST Certified
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (4.76%) Apache
1 1 (4.76%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (4.76%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.76%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.76%) Big Data
2 1 (4.76%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.76%) Metadata
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.76%) Power BI
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) GitLab
2 2 (9.52%) Cucumber
2 2 (9.52%) Robot Framework
3 1 (4.76%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
1 4 (19.05%) Telecoms
2 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) JSON
1 2 (9.52%) XML
2 1 (4.76%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.76%) PySpark
2 1 (4.76%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Product Ownership
1 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
2 1 (4.76%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (4.76%) Cyberattack
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) Agile
3 8 (38.10%) Test Scripting
4 7 (33.33%) Regression Testing
5 6 (28.57%) Scrum
5 6 (28.57%) Test Planning
6 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
7 4 (19.05%) Performance Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
8 3 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (14.29%) Red Team
9 2 (9.52%) Acceptance Criteria
9 2 (9.52%) Black-Box Testing
9 2 (9.52%) Business Transformation
9 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
9 2 (9.52%) Threat Intelligence
9 2 (9.52%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Java
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) C#
3 5 (23.81%) Python
4 2 (9.52%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) C
5 1 (4.76%) C++
5 1 (4.76%) Perl
5 1 (4.76%) Ruby
5 1 (4.76%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 8 (38.10%) DV Cleared
3 3 (14.29%) CREST Certified
3 3 (14.29%) OSCP
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (4.76%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.52%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
1 3 (14.29%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Kibana
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Oracle
2 1 (4.76%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.76%) Databricks
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) VMware