Exploratory Testing Contracts in Northamptonshire

Exploratory Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire 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 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.40% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.67% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £362 - -
25th Percentile £371 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £437 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £400 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 187 211 339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 89.90% 89.03% 90.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 139 161 269
10th Percentile £309 £188 £220
25th Percentile £356 £308 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £375 £455
Median % change year-on-year +13.33% -17.58% +21.33%
75th Percentile £538 £500 £520
90th Percentile £620 £573 £585
East Midlands median daily rate £411 £450 £440
% change year-on-year -8.78% +2.27% +12.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 16 29
10th Percentile £10.90 £16.12 £10.50
25th Percentile - £18.13 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.00 £41.50 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -66.27% +50.91% -38.89%
75th Percentile £50.71 £51.50 £35.00
90th Percentile £53.90 - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £18.37 £17.50
% change year-on-year -7.43% +4.94% +18.20%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Northamptonshire

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Northampton - 5 £400 -
Exploratory Testing
East Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 5 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow