Exploratory Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

Exploratory Testing
England > East Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.65% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £362 - -
25th Percentile £371 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - -
75th Percentile £428 - -
90th Percentile £437 - -
England median daily rate £450 £488 £430
% change year-on-year -7.69% +13.37% -4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

Exploratory 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 advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 604 932 1,213
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.54% 88.01% 83.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 696 898
10th Percentile £188 £213 £205
25th Percentile £269 £334 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £440
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +2.27% +17.33%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £520
90th Percentile £625 £700 £613
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 76 82
10th Percentile £11.75 £11.80 £9.49
25th Percentile £12.75 £16.25 £13.21
Median hourly rate £17.50 £17.72 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% +1.26% +9.86%
75th Percentile £26.15 £28.88 £25.90
90th Percentile £51.34 £57.50 £35.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +56.25% -

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the East Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the East Midlands

Exploratory Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Exploratory Testing within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northamptonshire - 5 £400 -
Exploratory Testing
England

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
1 1 (20.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 5 (100.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (20.00%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 5 (100.00%) System Integration Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) ServiceNow