End-to-End Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

End-to-End 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 End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 220 334 300
Rank change year-on-year +114 -34 +2
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 123 134 360
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.53% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.93% 0.60% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 91 271
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £366 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £613
90th Percentile £738 £788 £680
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +14.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.00
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £34.00
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £57.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.33% +62.86% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

End-to-End 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 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

End-to-End Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

End-to-End Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End 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 End-to-End Testing.

End-to-End Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

End-to-End Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing End-to-End Testing.

End-to-End Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End 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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (5.69%) Confluence
2 6 (4.88%) CMS
3 3 (2.44%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.44%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.44%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.63%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.63%) IIS
4 2 (1.63%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 11 (8.94%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (7.32%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle AGIS
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle Assets
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle General Ledger
3 7 (5.69%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (1.63%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.63%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.81%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.81%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.81%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.81%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 33 (26.83%) AWS
2 15 (12.20%) Azure
2 15 (12.20%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (4.88%) Amazon EC2
3 6 (4.88%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (4.07%) GCP
4 5 (4.07%) Serverless
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon EKS
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon S3
5 4 (3.25%) Amazon SQS
5 4 (3.25%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon ECR
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (1.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.63%) AWS CodePipeline
6 2 (1.63%) AWS KMS
6 2 (1.63%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (1.63%) Datadog
6 2 (1.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.25%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.63%) SSL
3 1 (0.81%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (10.57%) NoSQL
2 10 (8.13%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.25%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.44%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.44%) MySQL
4 3 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.63%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.63%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.63%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.63%) DB2
5 2 (1.63%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.63%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.63%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (15.45%) JIRA
2 14 (11.38%) Jenkins
3 12 (9.76%) Git
4 9 (7.32%) Cucumber
4 9 (7.32%) Selenium
5 7 (5.69%) Bitbucket
5 7 (5.69%) Cypress.io
6 5 (4.07%) TestNG
7 4 (3.25%) GitLab
7 4 (3.25%) Maven
8 3 (2.44%) Artifactory
8 3 (2.44%) JMeter
8 3 (2.44%) JUnit
8 3 (2.44%) LoadRunner
8 3 (2.44%) REST Assured
8 3 (2.44%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.44%) Storybook
8 3 (2.44%) TestRail
8 3 (2.44%) webpack
9 2 (1.63%) Visual Studio
General
1 25 (20.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (17.89%) Finance
3 15 (12.20%) Marketing
3 15 (12.20%) Public Sector
4 14 (11.38%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.69%) Banking
5 7 (5.69%) Front Office
5 7 (5.69%) General Ledger
6 6 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.25%) Electronics
7 4 (3.25%) Investment Banking
7 4 (3.25%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.25%) Retail
8 3 (2.44%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.44%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.63%) Back Office
9 2 (1.63%) Military
10 1 (0.81%) Automotive
10 1 (0.81%) Legal
Job Titles
1 33 (26.83%) Developer
2 19 (15.45%) Analyst
3 14 (11.38%) Test Analyst
4 13 (10.57%) Consultant
4 13 (10.57%) Test Manager
5 11 (8.94%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 9 (7.32%) Architect
6 9 (7.32%) Software Developer
6 9 (7.32%) Test Engineer
7 8 (6.50%) React Developer
7 8 (6.50%) Tester
8 7 (5.69%) Lead
8 7 (5.69%) Oracle Architect
8 7 (5.69%) Oracle Solutions Architect
8 7 (5.69%) Software Engineer
8 7 (5.69%) Solutions Architect
9 6 (4.88%) Java Developer
9 6 (4.88%) Senior
10 5 (4.07%) Electronic Trading Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.63%) RESTful
2 16 (13.01%) React
3 12 (9.76%) WebSockets
4 11 (8.94%) FastAPI
5 8 (6.50%) CSS
5 8 (6.50%) Redux
5 8 (6.50%) REST
6 6 (4.88%) GraphQL
7 5 (4.07%) .NET
7 5 (4.07%) Kafka
7 5 (4.07%) Node.js
7 5 (4.07%) Reactive Extensions
8 4 (3.25%) HTML
8 4 (3.25%) OAuth
8 4 (3.25%) Playwright
8 4 (3.25%) Spring
8 4 (3.25%) Spring Boot
8 4 (3.25%) Web Services
9 3 (2.44%) Next.js
9 3 (2.44%) OpenTracing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.94%) Legacy Systems
2 5 (4.07%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.25%) Data Structures
3 4 (3.25%) Distributed Systems
3 4 (3.25%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.63%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.63%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.63%) Private Cloud
5 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.81%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.81%) Genomics
6 1 (0.81%) IoT
6 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.81%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.81%) Robotics
6 1 (0.81%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.81%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.94%) Linux
2 6 (4.88%) Windows
3 4 (3.25%) Unix
4 3 (2.44%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.63%) AIX
5 2 (1.63%) Android
5 2 (1.63%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.63%) Solaris
6 1 (0.81%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (43.09%) Agile
2 37 (30.08%) Test Automation
3 29 (23.58%) User Acceptance Testing
4 26 (21.14%) CI/CD
5 25 (20.33%) Test Scripting
6 23 (18.70%) Integration Testing
7 22 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
7 22 (17.89%) Scenario Testing
8 19 (15.45%) System Testing
9 18 (14.63%) Software Testing
10 17 (13.82%) DevOps
10 17 (13.82%) Test Strategy
11 16 (13.01%) Continuous Integration
11 16 (13.01%) Migration
11 16 (13.01%) Unit Testing
12 15 (12.20%) Software Engineering
12 15 (12.20%) Test Management
13 14 (11.38%) Analytics
13 14 (11.38%) API Development
14 13 (10.57%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.46%) SQL
2 30 (24.39%) Python
3 21 (17.07%) Java
3 21 (17.07%) TypeScript
4 15 (12.20%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.76%) C#
6 5 (4.07%) C++
7 4 (3.25%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.25%) Scala
8 3 (2.44%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.63%) Bash
9 2 (1.63%) C
9 2 (1.63%) Groovy
9 2 (1.63%) Perl
9 2 (1.63%) Ruby
10 1 (0.81%) Jython
10 1 (0.81%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.81%) VB
10 1 (0.81%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 29 (23.58%) Security Cleared
2 25 (20.33%) SC Cleared
3 16 (13.01%) ISTQB
4 9 (7.32%) Degree
5 7 (5.69%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.44%) ISEB
6 3 (2.44%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.81%) HNC
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.81%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (15.45%) QA
2 7 (5.69%) GAAP
3 4 (3.25%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.44%) PMO
5 2 (1.63%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.81%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.81%) GDPR
System Software
1 9 (7.32%) Docker
2 3 (2.44%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.44%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.81%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (0.81%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (0.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.81%) XenApp
3 1 (0.81%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 8 (6.50%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.25%) Ansible
2 4 (3.25%) Grafana
2 4 (3.25%) Terraform
3 3 (2.44%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.44%) Zipkin
4 2 (1.63%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.63%) Nagios
4 2 (1.63%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.63%) Puppet
4 2 (1.63%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.81%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 19 (15.45%) Oracle
2 8 (6.50%) OpenAI
2 8 (6.50%) SAP
3 6 (4.88%) IBM
3 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.25%) Google
4 4 (3.25%) HP
4 4 (3.25%) Salesforce
4 4 (3.25%) Splunk
5 3 (2.44%) VMware
6 2 (1.63%) AppDynamics
6 2 (1.63%) Confluent
6 2 (1.63%) Dell
6 2 (1.63%) F5
6 2 (1.63%) Informatica
6 2 (1.63%) New Relic
6 2 (1.63%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.63%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.81%) UiPath
7 1 (0.81%) Workday