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 £406, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 340 369
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Test Leader 44 101 139
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.44% 0.45%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% 0.47% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 65 113
10th Percentile - £363 £387
25th Percentile £363 £400 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £528 £575 £523
90th Percentile £638 £695 £575
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £38.40 £23.43 -
Median hourly rate £41.27 £23.86 -
Median % change year-on-year +72.98% - -
75th Percentile £44.13 £24.28 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £41.27 £37.93 £25.50
% change year-on-year +8.80% +48.74% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 19,574 21,604 29,395
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.42% 95.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,709 14,898 20,646
10th Percentile £213 £231 £210
25th Percentile £369 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +4.28% +9.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,462 1,135 1,414
10th Percentile £12.70 £13.45 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £17.72 £15.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - +100.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £74.54 £75.50 £64.28
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.86 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.50% +75.44% +18.32%

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 28 June 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 28 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
East of England +4 13 £375 -49.53%
Midlands +8 9 £413 -21.80% 4
South West +6 7 - - 1
West Midlands +2 5 £425 -19.05% 3
South East -12 5 £618 +54.38% 2
Scotland +35 4 £638 +41.67%
East Midlands +10 4 £400 -46.16% 1
North of England -3 4 £456 -10.98% 2
Yorkshire +5 2 - -
Isle of Man - 2 £388 -
North West -2 1 £413 +3.13% 2
Test Leader
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Leader in the job title.

1 17 (38.64%) Test Management
2 16 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (34.09%) Test Strategy
4 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
4 14 (31.82%) QA
5 13 (29.55%) Test Planning
6 12 (27.27%) JIRA
7 11 (25.00%) Finance
7 11 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
8 9 (20.45%) Acceptance Criteria
8 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
8 9 (20.45%) Defect Management
9 8 (18.18%) Agile
10 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (13.64%) Azure
11 6 (13.64%) Test Scripting
11 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
11 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
11 6 (13.64%) DevOps
11 6 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
11 6 (13.64%) Games
11 6 (13.64%) Windows
12 5 (11.36%) Integration Testing
12 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
13 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (9.09%) SDLC
13 4 (9.09%) SQL
13 4 (9.09%) Oracle

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 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Assets
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Cash Management
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle General Ledger
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Payables
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (2.27%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (2.27%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (2.27%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (2.27%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.64%) Azure
2 4 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.55%) AWS
3 2 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (2.27%) GCP
4 1 (2.27%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.82%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.55%) Big Data
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (2.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 12 (27.27%) JIRA
2 4 (9.09%) Selenium
3 3 (6.82%) Cucumber
3 3 (6.82%) JMeter
4 1 (2.27%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.27%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (2.27%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.27%) Postman
4 1 (2.27%) TestRail
4 1 (2.27%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 11 (25.00%) Finance
2 9 (20.45%) Social Skills
3 6 (13.64%) Games
4 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.55%) Banking
6 2 (4.55%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.27%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Gherkin
1 2 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.27%) JSON
2 1 (2.27%) OpenAPI
2 1 (2.27%) Playwright
2 1 (2.27%) RAML
2 1 (2.27%) REST
2 1 (2.27%) RESTful
2 1 (2.27%) SOAP
2 1 (2.27%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.82%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.27%) Equities
2 1 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (2.27%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.27%) Operational Technology
2 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Windows
2 3 (6.82%) Unix
2 3 (6.82%) VMS
2 3 (6.82%) Windows 2000
2 3 (6.82%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (38.64%) Test Management
2 16 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
3 15 (34.09%) Test Strategy
4 14 (31.82%) Test Automation
5 13 (29.55%) Test Planning
6 11 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
7 9 (20.45%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (20.45%) Defect Management
8 8 (18.18%) Agile
9 7 (15.91%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (13.64%) DevOps
10 6 (13.64%) Non-Functional Testing
10 6 (13.64%) Test Scripting
11 5 (11.36%) Integration Testing
12 4 (9.09%) ERP
12 4 (9.09%) Regression Testing
12 4 (9.09%) SDLC
13 3 (6.82%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 4 (9.09%) SQL
2 3 (6.82%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) Shell Script
3 2 (4.55%) Python
4 1 (2.27%) C#
4 1 (2.27%) Java
4 1 (2.27%) ProC
4 1 (2.27%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (13.64%) SC Cleared
1 6 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.82%) Degree
2 3 (6.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 2 (4.55%) ISEB
3 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.27%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (2.27%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (31.82%) QA
2 1 (2.27%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.27%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (6.82%) Ansible
1 3 (6.82%) Terraform
2 2 (4.55%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (4.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (9.09%) Oracle
2 3 (6.82%) Fortinet
2 3 (6.82%) Juniper
3 2 (4.55%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.55%) SAP
3 2 (4.55%) VMware
4 1 (2.27%) Citrix
4 1 (2.27%) FIS
4 1 (2.27%) Google
4 1 (2.27%) Pega
4 1 (2.27%) Salesforce