Test Consultant Contracts

Test Consultant
UK

The median Test Consultant daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 561 668 791
Rank change year-on-year +107 +123 -87
Contract jobs requiring a Test Consultant 18 16 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.028% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.030% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 34
10th Percentile £375 £362 £354
25th Percentile £433 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £440 £425
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +3.53% +1.19%
75th Percentile £650 £494 £488
90th Percentile £713 £504 £532
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £400 £350
% change year-on-year +25.00% +14.29% -15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £45.00 - -
75th Percentile £47.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Test Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Consultant over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Consultant in the UK

Test Consultant
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 2 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
England +99 16 £550 +27.91% 2
Work from Home +114 11 £625 +51.52% 1
London +104 11 £563 +20.97% 1
UK excluding London +47 5 £500 +25.00% 1
South East +11 3 £538 -
North of England +27 1 £375 -16.67% 1
Yorkshire +21 1 £375 -25.00% 1
East of England - 1 - -

Test Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Test Consultant 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 featuring Test Consultant in the job title.

1 13 (72.22%) Test Automation
2 6 (33.33%) User Stories
2 6 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
3 5 (27.78%) Investment Management
3 5 (27.78%) Asset Management
3 5 (27.78%) SimCorp
3 5 (27.78%) SimCorp Dimension
3 5 (27.78%) Selenium
3 5 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
4 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
4 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) JMeter
4 4 (22.22%) Python
4 4 (22.22%) Java
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
5 3 (16.67%) Functional Testing
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
6 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
6 2 (11.11%) Postman
6 2 (11.11%) Appium
6 2 (11.11%) Scaled Agile Framework

Test Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 5 (27.78%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (5.56%) SAP FI
2 1 (5.56%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Selenium
2 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
2 4 (22.22%) JMeter
3 3 (16.67%) SoapUI
4 2 (11.11%) Appium
4 2 (11.11%) eggPlant
4 2 (11.11%) Git
4 2 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (11.11%) Maven
4 2 (11.11%) Postman
4 2 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 2 (11.11%) SOAtest
4 2 (11.11%) TestNG
4 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.56%) NeoLoad
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Back Office
3 1 (5.56%) Banking
3 1 (5.56%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
3 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
2 1 (5.56%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.56%) ADO
2 1 (5.56%) SAP TM
2 1 (5.56%) SOAP
2 1 (5.56%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Test Automation
2 6 (33.33%) Agile
2 6 (33.33%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 6 (33.33%) User Stories
3 5 (27.78%) Acceptance Criteria
3 5 (27.78%) Asset Management
3 5 (27.78%) Investment Management
4 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
5 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 3 (16.67%) ETL
5 3 (16.67%) Functional Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Data Management
6 2 (11.11%) Event-Driven
6 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Test Management
6 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
1 4 (22.22%) Python
2 2 (11.11%) C#
2 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) SimCorp
2 2 (11.11%) SAP
3 1 (5.56%) Databricks
3 1 (5.56%) HP
3 1 (5.56%) JDA
3 1 (5.56%) Oracle
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce