Remote Testing Contracts

Remote Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Remote Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Testing over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 578 704 830
Rank change year-on-year +126 +126 -162
Contract jobs citing Remote Testing 4 8 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.013% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.011% 0.015% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 22
10th Percentile £404 £215 £405
25th Percentile £466 £290 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £406 £550
Median % change year-on-year +29.23% -26.14% +23.60%
75th Percentile £553 £503 £616
90th Percentile £557 £531 £719
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £340
% change year-on-year - +61.76% -30.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Remote 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 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
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% +8.25%
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 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £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 £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Remote Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Testing over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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
Work from Home +126 4 £525 +55.56%
England +119 2 £463 -2.63% 1
London +100 1 £550 +70.54% 1

Remote 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) HR Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Copywriting
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Psychology
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Context-Driven Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow