Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £438 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 248 255 252
Rank change year-on-year +7 -3 -36
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 99 222 469
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.88% 1.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 0.93% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 162 388
10th Percentile £350 £285 £313
25th Percentile £363 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £538 £530
90th Percentile £600 £613 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £54.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +176.92% -58.95%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £59.95
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -58.13% +300.00% -60.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,116 23,953 42,349
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.34% 95.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,456 16,906 30,628
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 553 596
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.61 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.42 £25.71 £18.76
Median hourly rate £44.74 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.15% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
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 Tester.

Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Tester over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
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 Tester.

Tester hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Tester in the job title.

1 63 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 28 (28.28%) Agile
3 25 (25.25%) Selenium
3 25 (25.25%) Security Cleared
4 21 (21.21%) QA
5 20 (20.20%) Java
5 20 (20.20%) JavaScript
6 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
6 19 (19.19%) Social Skills
7 18 (18.18%) Test Scripting
8 17 (17.17%) Cypress.io
8 17 (17.17%) Python
8 17 (17.17%) User Acceptance Testing
9 16 (16.16%) JMeter
10 15 (15.15%) AWS
11 14 (14.14%) BDD
11 14 (14.14%) Azure
11 14 (14.14%) Banking
11 14 (14.14%) Scrum
12 13 (13.13%) Software Testing
12 13 (13.13%) Finance
12 13 (13.13%) C#
12 13 (13.13%) Manual Testing
12 13 (13.13%) Cucumber
12 13 (13.13%) DevOps
13 12 (12.12%) Jenkins
13 12 (12.12%) API Testing
13 12 (12.12%) Test Strategy
13 12 (12.12%) SQL
13 12 (12.12%) CI/CD

Tester Skill Set
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 5 (5.05%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) IIS
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) BASE24
1 1 (1.01%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.15%) AWS
2 14 (14.14%) Azure
3 10 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
4 5 (5.05%) BrowserStack
4 5 (5.05%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.04%) BlazeMeter
5 4 (4.04%) Firebase
5 4 (4.04%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.03%) GitHub
6 3 (3.03%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Event Grid
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (1.01%) dbt
8 1 (1.01%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) Wireless
2 1 (1.01%) 4G
2 1 (1.01%) 5G
2 1 (1.01%) ATM
2 1 (1.01%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.02%) Oracle Database
2 2 (2.02%) Power BI
3 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.01%) Parquet
3 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (25.25%) Selenium
2 17 (17.17%) Cypress.io
3 16 (16.16%) JMeter
4 13 (13.13%) Cucumber
5 12 (12.12%) Jenkins
6 10 (10.10%) Postman
6 10 (10.10%) WebDriver
7 9 (9.09%) JIRA
8 8 (8.08%) Git
9 7 (7.07%) GitLab
10 6 (6.06%) REST Assured
10 6 (6.06%) SoapUI
10 6 (6.06%) SpecFlow
11 5 (5.05%) Appium
11 5 (5.05%) JUnit
12 4 (4.04%) Maven
12 4 (4.04%) TestNG
13 2 (2.02%) Gradle
13 2 (2.02%) LoadRunner
13 2 (2.02%) Mocha
General
1 19 (19.19%) Social Skills
2 14 (14.14%) Banking
3 13 (13.13%) Finance
4 9 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 6 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (6.06%) Front Office
5 6 (6.06%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.04%) Back Office
7 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (2.02%) Retail
8 2 (2.02%) Wholesale Banking
9 1 (1.01%) Electronics
9 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.01%) Legal
9 1 (1.01%) Local Government
9 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.01%) Marketing
9 1 (1.01%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (9.09%) REST
2 7 (7.07%) Playwright
3 6 (6.06%) Gherkin
3 6 (6.06%) Middleware
4 5 (5.05%) .NET
5 4 (4.04%) WebdriverIO
6 3 (3.03%) Chai
6 3 (3.03%) Jest
6 3 (3.03%) Node.js
6 3 (3.03%) Web Services
7 2 (2.02%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.02%) JAXB
7 2 (2.02%) JAX-RS
7 2 (2.02%) JSON
7 2 (2.02%) React
7 2 (2.02%) SOAP
7 2 (2.02%) Spring
7 2 (2.02%) Spring Boot
7 2 (2.02%) XML
8 1 (1.01%) Django
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
1 4 (4.04%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.01%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.01%) EMV
3 1 (1.01%) Equities
3 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.01%) Replication
3 1 (1.01%) Robotics
3 1 (1.01%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.01%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.06%) Windows
2 4 (4.04%) Linux
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (63.64%) Test Automation
2 28 (28.28%) Agile
3 18 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 17 (17.17%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (14.14%) BDD
5 14 (14.14%) Scrum
6 13 (13.13%) DevOps
6 13 (13.13%) Manual Testing
6 13 (13.13%) Software Testing
7 12 (12.12%) API Testing
7 12 (12.12%) CI/CD
7 12 (12.12%) Test Strategy
8 11 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
9 10 (10.10%) Performance Testing
10 9 (9.09%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (9.09%) Functional Testing
10 9 (9.09%) Test Management
11 8 (8.08%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (8.08%) SDET
11 8 (8.08%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 20 (20.20%) Java
1 20 (20.20%) JavaScript
2 17 (17.17%) Python
3 13 (13.13%) C#
4 12 (12.12%) SQL
5 9 (9.09%) TypeScript
6 4 (4.04%) C++
7 2 (2.02%) C
8 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.01%) Scala
8 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.01%) VB
8 1 (1.01%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (25.25%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 7 (7.07%) CREST Certified
4 6 (6.06%) OSCP
5 4 (4.04%) Degree
5 4 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 3 (3.03%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (3.03%) CEH
6 3 (3.03%) GIAC
6 3 (3.03%) GPEN
6 3 (3.03%) ISTQB
7 2 (2.02%) CHECK Team Leader
7 2 (2.02%) CHECK Team Member
7 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.01%) CISM
8 1 (1.01%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.21%) QA
2 9 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.03%) NIST
3 3 (3.03%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (7.07%) Microsoft
1 7 (7.07%) Oracle
2 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
3 3 (3.03%) SAP
4 2 (2.02%) IBM
4 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.01%) FIS
5 1 (1.01%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.01%) Google
5 1 (1.01%) IBM Sterling
5 1 (1.01%) NEC
5 1 (1.01%) VocaLink
5 1 (1.01%) Wincor Nixdorf
5 1 (1.01%) WorldPay