Compatibility Testing Contracts

Compatibility Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Compatibility Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 695 824
Rank change year-on-year +112 +129 -147
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 8 12 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.020% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.021% 0.022% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 11 23
10th Percentile £344 - £403
25th Percentile £392 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £420 £480
Median % change year-on-year +5.09% -12.50% +31.51%
75th Percentile £492 £508 £613
90th Percentile £557 £650 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £325 £400 £450
% change year-on-year -18.75% -11.11% +36.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Compatibility 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 37,683 54,210 80,866
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.32% 89.89% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,351 37,527 56,743
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.36%
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% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,427 1,790 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.07 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +86.50% -8.17%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 23 April 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 +108 5 £438 +4.17% 4
UK excluding London +55 5 £325 -18.75% 2
Work from Home +119 3 £438 -10.71% 2
South East +19 2 - -
Scotland - 2 - -
London +98 1 £445 -31.50% 2
South West +19 1 £325 -18.75% 2

Compatibility 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Pipelines
2 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (25.00%) Appium
2 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (25.00%) JMeter
2 2 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (12.50%) JIRA
3 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
3 1 (12.50%) Postman
3 1 (12.50%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
3 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Deskside Support
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Architect
2 1 (12.50%) DevOps Manager
2 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Software Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Test Automation Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) Playwright
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Acceptance Criteria
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
4 2 (25.00%) API Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Application Rationalisation
4 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
4 2 (25.00%) BDD
4 2 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Asset Management
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) C#
2 2 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Adobe
2 1 (12.50%) HP
2 1 (12.50%) IBM