Exploratory Testing Contracts in the South East

Exploratory Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 193 213 242
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -29
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 3 5 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.054% 0.087% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.064% 0.097% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 7
10th Percentile £290 £348 £256
25th Percentile £313 £368 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £400 £350
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -33.33%
75th Percentile £394 £450 £463
90th Percentile £420 £480 £488
England median daily rate £448 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.47% +17.65% -2.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,677 5,168 6,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.68% 89.46% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,739 3,591 4,723
10th Percentile £250 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £594
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 223 284
10th Percentile £13.00 £17.10 £12.22
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.56 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.96 £62.92
England median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
% change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the South East

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the South East

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the South East

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 5 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
Surrey - 2 £325 - 1
Thames Valley +13 1 £425 +14.86%
Berkshire - 1 £425 -
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (66.67%) Confluence
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Unix Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Unix Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Functional Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Project Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) SDLC
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Use Case
2 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) HNC
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA