Compatibility Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Compatibility Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 465 604
Rank change year-on-year +124 +139 -114
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 3 9 15
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.035% 0.034%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.039% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 10
10th Percentile £334 £410 £398
25th Percentile £366 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £650 £457
Median % change year-on-year -32.69% +42.39% +25.07%
75th Percentile £451 £700 £495
90th Percentile £454 - £575
UK median daily rate £438 £490 £515
% change year-on-year -10.71% -4.85% +41.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,387 22,922 40,601
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.93% 89.77% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,971 16,192 29,477
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 528 542
10th Percentile £15.08 £18.68 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.81 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.13 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Compatibility Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Compatibility Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Compatibility Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Compatibility Testing.

Compatibility Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Compatibility Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Appium
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (33.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) IT Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) Playwright
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SDLC
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Full Stack Development
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Patch Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) IBM
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft