Scalability Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Scalability 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 Scalability Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scalability Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 468 623
Rank change year-on-year +119 +155 -159
Contract jobs citing Scalability Testing 3 2 11
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.008% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.009% 0.027%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £534 £368 £325
25th Percentile £547 £375 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +46.88% +6.67% -44.44%
75th Percentile £622 £425 £379
90th Percentile £631 £433 £381
UK median daily rate £575 £425 £380
% change year-on-year +35.29% +11.84% -39.20%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Scalability 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 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Scalability Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Scalability Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Scalability 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 Scalability Testing.

Scalability Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Scalability 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Data Science Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (33.33%) Chaos Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) CQRS
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) Event-Driven
3 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Microservices
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Statistical Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA