Compatibility Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Compatibility Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Compatibility Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 130 -
Rank change year-on-year +6 - -
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.058% 0.047% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.061% 0.051% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - -
75th Percentile £538 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £525 - £500

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Compatibility Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,629 1,950 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.07% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,208 1,778
10th Percentile £325 £366 £371
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Compatibility Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Compatibility Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Compatibility Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Compatibility Testing

Compatibility Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (100.00%) npm
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) gulp
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio Code
1 1 (100.00%) webpack
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) HTML5
1 1 (100.00%) Jest
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) Sass
1 1 (100.00%) SPFx
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Responsive Web Design
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft