End-to-End Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 278 297 271
Rank change year-on-year +19 -26 +9
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 118 151 270
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.64% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.72% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 115 204
10th Percentile £346 £363 £356
25th Percentile £400 £444 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £591 £575 £525
90th Percentile £694 £650 £556
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate £26.03 - £49.50
75th Percentile £29.38 - £51.88
90th Percentile £35.38 - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £57.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.33% +62.86% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

End-to-End 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,297 21,007 27,024
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.45% 89.55% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,312 14,549 18,866
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,055 1,290 1,325
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.22
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.41 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £46.17
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing End-to-End Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +29 38 £463 -7.50% 9
Scotland +62 31 £450 +8.43% 9
North of England 0 28 £500 -11.50% 4
North West +27 21 £500 -2.44% 4
Midlands +26 15 £400 -27.27% 9
East Midlands +27 13 £400 -44.56% 2
Yorkshire +4 6 £434 -30.56%
South West -9 3 - - 6
West Midlands +6 2 - - 7
Northern Ireland +6 2 - - 1
East of England -2 1 £375 -49.53% 8
North East -12 1 £395 -30.09%
End-to-End Testing
UK

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 20 (16.95%) Confluence
2 7 (5.93%) Apache Spark
3 5 (4.24%) Apache
4 3 (2.54%) CMS
4 3 (2.54%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.85%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 11 (9.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.39%) SAP WM
3 1 (0.85%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.73%) AWS
2 23 (19.49%) Azure
3 13 (11.02%) Dynamics 365
4 10 (8.47%) GCP
5 9 (7.63%) Amazon EC2
5 9 (7.63%) Amazon EKS
5 9 (7.63%) Amazon S3
6 8 (6.78%) Amazon ECR
6 8 (6.78%) Amazon SQS
6 8 (6.78%) Route 53
6 8 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (2.54%) Apigee
7 3 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.54%) Datadog
8 2 (1.69%) PaaS
9 1 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.85%) Figma
9 1 (0.85%) npm
9 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.93%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.24%) SSL
3 3 (2.54%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.78%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (6.78%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.54%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.54%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.54%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.85%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.85%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.85%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 31 (26.27%) JIRA
2 24 (20.34%) Jenkins
3 17 (14.41%) Git
4 14 (11.86%) Cucumber
5 11 (9.32%) Postman
6 10 (8.47%) JUnit
7 9 (7.63%) GitLab
7 9 (7.63%) webpack
8 8 (6.78%) Bitbucket
8 8 (6.78%) Selenium
9 7 (5.93%) Maven
10 5 (4.24%) IntelliJ
11 4 (3.39%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.54%) gulp
12 3 (2.54%) TestRail
12 3 (2.54%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.69%) JMeter
13 2 (1.69%) NUnit
13 2 (1.69%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.69%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 26 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 12 (10.17%) Marketing
3 11 (9.32%) Finance
4 10 (8.47%) Automotive
5 7 (5.93%) Banking
6 6 (5.08%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.39%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.39%) Public Sector
8 3 (2.54%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.54%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.69%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.69%) Military
10 1 (0.85%) Aviation
10 1 (0.85%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.85%) Electronics
10 1 (0.85%) Games
10 1 (0.85%) German Language
Job Titles
1 30 (25.42%) Developer
2 24 (20.34%) Java Developer
3 13 (11.02%) Consultant
4 11 (9.32%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 11 (9.32%) Test Engineer
4 11 (9.32%) Test Manager
5 10 (8.47%) Analyst
5 10 (8.47%) Test Analyst
6 9 (7.63%) Senior
7 8 (6.78%) Lead
7 8 (6.78%) Tester
8 7 (5.93%) Automation Tester
8 7 (5.93%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Backend Developer
9 6 (5.08%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.24%) Coordinator
11 4 (3.39%) Business Manager
11 4 (3.39%) Software Development Engineer
11 4 (3.39%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.39%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (21.19%) Kafka
2 21 (17.80%) Spring
3 19 (16.10%) RESTful
3 19 (16.10%) Spring Boot
4 11 (9.32%) J2EE
4 11 (9.32%) Node.js
4 11 (9.32%) REST
5 10 (8.47%) .NET
5 10 (8.47%) Apache Camel
5 10 (8.47%) React
6 9 (7.63%) Redux
7 8 (6.78%) Express.js
8 7 (5.93%) Elastic Stack
8 7 (5.93%) OpenTracing
9 5 (4.24%) CSS
9 5 (4.24%) XML
10 4 (3.39%) SOAP
11 3 (2.54%) ASP.NET
11 3 (2.54%) HTML
11 3 (2.54%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.17%) Data Structures
2 11 (9.32%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (7.63%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.08%) Public Cloud
5 3 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.54%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.54%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.54%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.69%) Equities
6 2 (1.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.69%) PKI
6 2 (1.69%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.85%) IoT
7 1 (0.85%) NHS
7 1 (0.85%) Robotics
7 1 (0.85%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.85%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 15 (12.71%) Linux
2 7 (5.93%) Unix
3 6 (5.08%) Windows
4 4 (3.39%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (2.54%) Android
5 3 (2.54%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.69%) VMS
6 2 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (41.53%) Agile
2 43 (36.44%) Test Automation
3 37 (31.36%) User Acceptance Testing
4 22 (18.64%) Continuous Integration
5 19 (16.10%) Scenario Testing
5 19 (16.10%) System Testing
6 17 (14.41%) CI/CD
7 16 (13.56%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (13.56%) Test Strategy
8 15 (12.71%) Software Testing
8 15 (12.71%) System Integration Testing
9 14 (11.86%) CRM
9 14 (11.86%) Microservices
9 14 (11.86%) Migration
9 14 (11.86%) Project Management
9 14 (11.86%) SDLC
10 13 (11.02%) DevOps
10 13 (11.02%) Scrum
11 12 (10.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (10.17%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 36 (30.51%) Java
2 24 (20.34%) SQL
3 11 (9.32%) Python
4 10 (8.47%) Kotlin
4 10 (8.47%) Scala
5 8 (6.78%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.93%) C#
6 7 (5.93%) C++
7 6 (5.08%) PL/SQL
8 4 (3.39%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.54%) Bash
9 3 (2.54%) C
9 3 (2.54%) Perl
9 3 (2.54%) PowerShell
9 3 (2.54%) Ruby
9 3 (2.54%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.85%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (12.71%) Degree
2 13 (11.02%) SC Cleared
2 13 (11.02%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.93%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.54%) HNC
4 3 (2.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (2.54%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.69%) ISEB
5 2 (1.69%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (20.34%) QA
2 6 (5.08%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.24%) PMO
4 2 (1.69%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.69%) Def Stans
System Software
1 21 (17.80%) Docker
2 4 (3.39%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.39%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.69%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.85%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (21.19%) Kubernetes
2 7 (5.93%) Prometheus
2 7 (5.93%) Zipkin
3 6 (5.08%) Ansible
4 4 (3.39%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (3.39%) Kibana
5 3 (2.54%) Grafana
5 3 (2.54%) Nagios
5 3 (2.54%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.54%) Puppet
5 3 (2.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (11.02%) SAP
2 12 (10.17%) Oracle
3 6 (5.08%) Splunk
4 5 (4.24%) ServiceNow
5 4 (3.39%) Microsoft
6 3 (2.54%) Google
6 3 (2.54%) New Relic
7 2 (1.69%) HP
7 2 (1.69%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.85%) Adobe
8 1 (0.85%) Citrix
8 1 (0.85%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.85%) Confluent
8 1 (0.85%) IBM
8 1 (0.85%) Informatica
8 1 (0.85%) StreamSets
8 1 (0.85%) UiPath
8 1 (0.85%) VMware