Exploratory Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 430 459
Rank change year-on-year +62 +29 -35
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 17 16 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.070% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.078% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 12 31
10th Percentile £350 £378 £300
25th Percentile £355 £403 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.26% -7.89% +16.92%
75th Percentile £488 £503 £500
90th Percentile - £591 £510
UK median daily rate £438 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -12.50% +17.65% +1.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,140 20,557 27,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.34% 89.47% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,220 14,177 18,943
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £381 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.43%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,064 1,258 1,350
10th Percentile £12.35 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.52
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
North of England +33 8 £475 +4.11% 3
North West +22 6 £463 -7.50% 3
Midlands +33 5 £400 - 3
East Midlands - 5 £400 -
South East +15 4 £350 -12.50% 2
Yorkshire +14 2 £500 +21.21%
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory 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 3 (17.65%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.76%) AWS
2 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (5.88%) Azure
2 1 (5.88%) BrowserStack
2 1 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.88%) Serverless
2 1 (5.88%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
1 3 (17.65%) TestRail
2 2 (11.76%) Postman
3 1 (5.88%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.88%) Gatling
3 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.88%) Pa11y
3 1 (5.88%) Selenium
3 1 (5.88%) SoapUI
3 1 (5.88%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Automotive
3 1 (5.88%) Finance
3 1 (5.88%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Test Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Automation Tester
2 6 (35.29%) Tester
3 5 (29.41%) Senior
3 5 (29.41%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (17.65%) Systems Test Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Unix Engineer
5 2 (11.76%) Unix Systems Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Business Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) QA Tester
6 1 (5.88%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (5.88%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Test Analyst
6 1 (5.88%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
1 1 (5.88%) JSON
1 1 (5.88%) React
1 1 (5.88%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
1 3 (17.65%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) End-to-End Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Functional Testing
3 7 (41.18%) User Acceptance Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (29.41%) Agile
5 5 (29.41%) Load Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (29.41%) SDLC
5 5 (29.41%) Security Testing
5 5 (29.41%) System Integration Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
6 4 (23.53%) Active Listening
6 4 (23.53%) Analytical Thinking
6 4 (23.53%) Customer Experience
6 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (17.65%) Project Planning
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) TDD
7 3 (17.65%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Java
1 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
1 3 (17.65%) SQL
2 1 (5.88%) PHP
2 1 (5.88%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) HNC
2 3 (17.65%) ISTQB
2 3 (17.65%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 3 (17.65%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) Accessibility
2 5 (29.41%) QA
3 4 (23.53%) Data Quality
4 1 (5.88%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kibana
2 1 (5.88%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow