Exploratory Testing Contracts in England

Exploratory Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 505 621 660
Rank change year-on-year +116 +39 -100
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 32 41 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.086% 0.082% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.091% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 33 80
10th Percentile £353 £336 £311
25th Percentile £394 £384 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.76% +11.76% -2.86%
75th Percentile £488 £600 £488
90th Percentile £563 £674 £506
UK median daily rate £448 £469 £425
% change year-on-year -4.50% +10.29% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £27.88
25th Percentile - - £32.19
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £41.25
75th Percentile - - £52.19
90th Percentile - - £57.63
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Exploratory Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Testing in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Testing in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London +79 13 £445 -10.94% 4
North of England +34 8 £475 +15.15% 3
North West +22 6 £463 -7.50% 3
Midlands +32 5 £400 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £400 -
South East +14 3 £350 -12.50% 1
Yorkshire +21 2 £500 +21.21%
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (6.25%) CMS
1 2 (6.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
3 3 (9.38%) Serverless
4 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (6.25%) GCP
4 2 (6.25%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.13%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
5 1 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (3.13%) SaaS
5 1 (3.13%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (6.25%) Power BI
2 1 (3.13%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (3.13%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Postman
2 5 (15.63%) JIRA
2 5 (15.63%) Selenium
2 5 (15.63%) SoapUI
3 4 (12.50%) WebDriver
4 3 (9.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (9.38%) JUnit
4 3 (9.38%) TestNG
5 2 (6.25%) Fiddler
5 2 (6.25%) Gerrit
5 2 (6.25%) Git
5 2 (6.25%) Serenity BDD
5 2 (6.25%) TestRail
6 1 (3.13%) Appium
6 1 (3.13%) Jenkins
6 1 (3.13%) Pa11y
6 1 (3.13%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.13%) SpecFlow
6 1 (3.13%) TestCafe
6 1 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (21.88%) Analytical Skills
1 7 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 3 (9.38%) Finance
3 2 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (3.13%) General Ledger
4 1 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Test Engineer
1 10 (31.25%) Tester
2 8 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (25.00%) Automation Tester
2 8 (25.00%) Senior
3 6 (18.75%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (12.50%) Test Analyst
5 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Automation Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) Manual Tester
6 2 (6.25%) QA Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) QA Consultant
6 2 (6.25%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Systems Test Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (3.13%) QA Automation Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (9.38%) AngularJS
2 2 (6.25%) CSS
2 2 (6.25%) HTML
2 2 (6.25%) JSON
2 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 1 (3.13%) ADO
3 1 (3.13%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.13%) Gherkin
3 1 (3.13%) Playwright
3 1 (3.13%) React
3 1 (3.13%) REST
3 1 (3.13%) RESTful
3 1 (3.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.13%) Cloud Native
2 1 (3.13%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Linux
1 3 (9.38%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (81.25%) Test Automation
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 11 (34.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 10 (31.25%) Scenario Testing
6 9 (28.13%) Continuous Improvement
6 9 (28.13%) Functional Testing
7 7 (21.88%) Test Strategy
8 6 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (18.75%) CI/CD
8 6 (18.75%) Open Source
8 6 (18.75%) Scrum
8 6 (18.75%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Analytical Thinking
9 5 (15.63%) DevOps
9 5 (15.63%) Load Testing
9 5 (15.63%) Regression Testing
9 5 (15.63%) SDLC
9 5 (15.63%) Security Testing
10 4 (12.50%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) Java
2 6 (18.75%) Python
3 5 (15.63%) SQL
4 4 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 3 (9.38%) Ruby
6 2 (6.25%) C#
6 2 (6.25%) JavaScript
6 2 (6.25%) Perl
6 2 (6.25%) Shell Script
7 1 (3.13%) PHP
7 1 (3.13%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (6.25%) HNC
2 2 (6.25%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (6.25%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
2 2 (6.25%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (34.38%) QA
2 9 (28.13%) Accessibility
3 4 (12.50%) Data Quality
4 1 (3.13%) IFRS
System Software
1 1 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kibana
1 2 (6.25%) Opsgenie
2 1 (3.13%) Grafana
2 1 (3.13%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (18.75%) ServiceNow
2 2 (6.25%) Dynatrace
2 2 (6.25%) HP
2 2 (6.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.25%) PagerDuty
2 2 (6.25%) Splunk
3 1 (3.13%) IBM