Agile Testing Contracts

Agile Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 575 692 781
Rank change year-on-year +117 +89 -116
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 12 14 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.024% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.027% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 10 32
10th Percentile £355 £363 £319
25th Percentile £400 £375 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £438 £483
Median % change year-on-year -6.29% -9.33% +14.88%
75th Percentile £488 £519 £505
90th Percentile £530 £565 £550
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £438 £484
% change year-on-year -8.57% -9.56% +7.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,783 51,773 79,870
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.20% 89.81% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,675 35,887 56,073
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,434 1,710 1,920
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +110 8 £449 +5.65% 6
London +89 6 £449 -14.48% 1
UK excluding London +60 6 £400 -8.57% 6
Work from Home +112 4 £400 -5.88% 1
Scotland +40 4 £400 -20.00% 1
South East +19 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Miro
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) MariaDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) JMeter
4 1 (8.33%) Postman
4 1 (8.33%) REST Assured
4 1 (8.33%) TestRail
4 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Test Manager
1 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
3 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (8.33%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Senior
3 1 (8.33%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Test Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Kafka
2 1 (8.33%) ADO
2 1 (8.33%) Middleware
2 1 (8.33%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Equities
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Linux
2 3 (25.00%) Unix
3 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Test Management
4 5 (41.67%) Software Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Decision-Making
5 4 (33.33%) Test Planning
5 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
6 3 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Project Management
6 3 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Defect Management
7 2 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 2 (16.67%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) C#
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
2 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (16.67%) PMO
3 1 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (8.33%) Kibana
2 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Spotify