Tester Contracts in the Midlands

Tester
England > Midlands

The median Tester daily rate in the Midlands is £343 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 May 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 120 132 148
Rank change year-on-year +12 +16 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 14 24 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.50% 0.74% 1.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.78% 1.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 19 41
10th Percentile £200 £355 £285
25th Percentile £309 £370 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £343 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year -19.41% +13.33% -15.01%
75th Percentile £411 £531 £444
90th Percentile £449 £708 £473
England median daily rate £450 £500 £430
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.28% +1.18%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 Midlands with a recognized job title 2,567 3,068 4,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.60% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,741 2,161 3,516
10th Percentile £213 £227 £210
25th Percentile £335 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £465
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% +2.15% +14.81%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £565
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 108 157
10th Percentile £11.83 £12.50 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.13 £14.52 £14.61
Median hourly rate £19.06 £20.41 £17.70
Median % change year-on-year -6.60% +15.31% +18.00%
75th Percentile £35.00 £30.00 £23.50
90th Percentile £52.01 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.63 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.39% +88.21% +11.21%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Tester in the Midlands

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in the Midlands

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in the Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in the Midlands

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in the Midlands

Tester
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 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 Midlands +13 10 £350 -7.89% 5
West Midlands +6 4 £203 -61.43% 13
Tester
England

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

For the 6 months to 31 May 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 Midlands region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 7 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
4 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
4 5 (35.71%) Exploratory Testing
4 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
6 3 (21.43%) Technology Transformation
6 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
6 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
6 3 (21.43%) Web Services
6 3 (21.43%) Biometrics
7 2 (14.29%) JMeter
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
7 2 (14.29%) JIRA
7 2 (14.29%) QA
7 2 (14.29%) Selenium
7 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
7 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Postman
7 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
8 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (7.14%) Ansible

Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 2 (14.29%) JIRA
1 2 (14.29%) JMeter
1 2 (14.29%) Postman
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) SoapUI
2 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) LDAP
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) SOAP
2 1 (7.14%) Vitest
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Test Automation
2 7 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 6 (42.86%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (42.86%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Exploratory Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
4 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Biometrics
5 3 (21.43%) Technology Transformation
5 3 (21.43%) Test Scripting
6 2 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.14%) API Testing
7 1 (7.14%) QA Automation
7 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (7.14%) Test Planning
7 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
7 1 (7.14%) Webhook
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Java
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) Data Quality
2 2 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Ansible
1 1 (7.14%) Grafana
1 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle