Agile Testing Contracts in England

Agile Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 534 648 754
Rank change year-on-year +114 +106 -163
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 7 13 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.019% 0.026% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% 0.029% 0.070%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 29
10th Percentile - £363 £314
25th Percentile - £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £438 £473
Median % change year-on-year +11.54% -7.41% +18.13%
75th Percentile - £528 £519
90th Percentile - £565 £555
UK median daily rate £513 £450 £493
% change year-on-year +14.06% -8.63% +23.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Agile 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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in England

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in England

Agile Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Testing in England

Agile Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 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
London +117 5 £488 -7.05%
South East +20 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1
Agile Testing
UK

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Miro
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) GitLab
2 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 1 (14.29%) JMeter
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) TestRail
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Automation Tester
2 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) GCP Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) QA Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) QA Leader
2 1 (14.29%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Test Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) ADO
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) WebdriverIO
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Test Management
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (28.57%) Test Assurance
4 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Coaching
5 1 (14.29%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 1 (14.29%) DevOps
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (14.29%) Presales
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) C++
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
1 1 (14.29%) Python
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB
3 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
3 1 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) QA