End-to-End Testing Contracts in England

End-to-End Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 311 340 336
Rank change year-on-year +29 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 238 364 567
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.72% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.80% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 243 401
10th Percentile £341 £355 £363
25th Percentile £411 £453 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £576
90th Percentile £738 £785 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile - £53.00 £25.20
25th Percentile - £54.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £26.03 £57.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.33% +62.86% -
75th Percentile £29.38 £59.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £61.00 £52.35
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £57.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.33% +62.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

End-to-End 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 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
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% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End 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 End-to-End Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 27 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
London +43 143 £500 -15.79% 28
South East +25 35 £500 - 7
North of England +5 32 £500 -11.50% 8
North West +32 24 £500 - 7
Midlands +16 17 £422 -23.36% 8
East Midlands +21 13 £400 -44.56% 3
Yorkshire +5 7 £436 -30.24% 1
South West -2 5 £463 -15.91% 6
West Midlands +16 4 £750 +35.14% 5
East of England +8 2 £425 -42.80% 9
North East -9 1 £395 -30.09%
End-to-End Testing
UK

End-to-End 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 17 (7.14%) Confluence
2 6 (2.52%) Tornado
3 5 (2.10%) CMS
4 3 (1.26%) Umbraco
5 2 (0.84%) Apache
5 2 (0.84%) CICS
5 2 (0.84%) Headless CMS
5 2 (0.84%) IIS
5 2 (0.84%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.68%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (3.36%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle AGIS
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle Assets
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle General Ledger
3 5 (2.10%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (1.68%) SAP WM
5 3 (1.26%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 2 (0.84%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.84%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.42%) MIS ActiveH
7 1 (0.42%) NEC Housing
7 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
7 1 (0.42%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 43 (18.07%) AWS
1 43 (18.07%) Azure
2 16 (6.72%) Dynamics 365
3 13 (5.46%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (4.62%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (4.62%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (4.20%) Amazon S3
6 9 (3.78%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.36%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (3.36%) Route 53
7 8 (3.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 6 (2.52%) Azure Key Vault
8 6 (2.52%) Serverless
9 5 (2.10%) Amazon ECS
10 4 (1.68%) GitHub
10 4 (1.68%) IBM Blueworks
10 4 (1.68%) Lucidchart
10 4 (1.68%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.26%) Datadog
11 3 (1.26%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.52%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.10%) SSL
3 2 (0.84%) DNS
3 2 (0.84%) Internet
4 1 (0.42%) HTTP
4 1 (0.42%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.72%) NoSQL
1 16 (6.72%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.30%) Relational Database
3 12 (5.04%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (3.36%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.10%) MySQL
6 4 (1.68%) DB2
6 4 (1.68%) Power BI
7 3 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.26%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.26%) MongoDB
8 2 (0.84%) IDMS
9 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.42%) Big Data
9 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.42%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.42%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 45 (18.91%) JIRA
2 25 (10.50%) Git
3 19 (7.98%) Selenium
4 18 (7.56%) Jenkins
5 15 (6.30%) Cucumber
6 11 (4.62%) JUnit
6 11 (4.62%) webpack
7 10 (4.20%) Bitbucket
7 10 (4.20%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.20%) GitLab
8 9 (3.78%) JMeter
9 7 (2.94%) TestRail
10 6 (2.52%) LoadRunner
10 6 (2.52%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.52%) TestNG
11 5 (2.10%) Maven
12 4 (1.68%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.68%) REST Assured
12 4 (1.68%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.26%) Postman
General
1 65 (27.31%) Social Skills
2 49 (20.59%) Finance
3 29 (12.18%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 17 (7.14%) Banking
5 17 (7.14%) Marketing
6 14 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.62%) Front Office
7 11 (4.62%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.78%) Automotive
9 8 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 6 (2.52%) Electronics
11 5 (2.10%) General Ledger
11 5 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.10%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.68%) Retail
13 3 (1.26%) Back Office
13 3 (1.26%) Tech for Good
14 2 (0.84%) Law
Job Titles
1 50 (21.01%) Developer
2 32 (13.45%) Analyst
3 26 (10.92%) Lead
4 23 (9.66%) Tester
5 22 (9.24%) Test Manager
6 21 (8.82%) Test Analyst
7 17 (7.14%) Senior
8 14 (5.88%) Consultant
9 12 (5.04%) Test Engineer
10 11 (4.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 10 (4.20%) Python Developer
11 10 (4.20%) Software Developer
11 10 (4.20%) Software Engineer
11 10 (4.20%) Test Leader
12 9 (3.78%) Manual Tester
12 9 (3.78%) React Developer
13 8 (3.36%) Python Engineer
13 8 (3.36%) ServiceNow Developer
13 8 (3.36%) Testing Manager
14 7 (2.94%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (14.29%) React
2 22 (9.24%) Node.js
3 21 (8.82%) RESTful
4 18 (7.56%) ADO
5 17 (7.14%) Redux
6 15 (6.30%) FastAPI
6 15 (6.30%) WebSockets
7 14 (5.88%) REST
8 11 (4.62%) CSS
8 11 (4.62%) OAuth
9 10 (4.20%) .NET
10 9 (3.78%) HTML
10 9 (3.78%) Kafka
11 8 (3.36%) Express.js
11 8 (3.36%) Pandas
12 7 (2.94%) Django
12 7 (2.94%) Flask
12 7 (2.94%) Playwright
13 6 (2.52%) Bokeh
13 6 (2.52%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (5.04%) Legacy Systems
2 10 (4.20%) Onboarding
3 7 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 6 (2.52%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.52%) Private Cloud
4 6 (2.52%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.68%) Market Risk
5 4 (1.68%) Mobile App
5 4 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.26%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.26%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.26%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.26%) FMCG
6 3 (1.26%) Renewable Energy
6 3 (1.26%) Solar Panel
7 2 (0.84%) Genomics
7 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.84%) PKI
7 2 (0.84%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 2 (0.84%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 23 (9.66%) Linux
2 10 (4.20%) Windows
3 9 (3.78%) Unix
4 4 (1.68%) Android
4 4 (1.68%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.68%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.84%) AIX
5 2 (0.84%) Solaris
5 2 (0.84%) VMS
5 2 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (39.92%) Agile
2 71 (29.83%) Test Automation
3 51 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 49 (20.59%) CI/CD
5 47 (19.75%) DevOps
6 45 (18.91%) Problem-Solving
7 38 (15.97%) Software Testing
8 33 (13.87%) Integration Testing
8 33 (13.87%) Scenario Testing
9 32 (13.45%) Test Strategy
10 31 (13.03%) Test Management
11 28 (11.76%) Project Management
12 27 (11.34%) System Testing
13 26 (10.92%) Stakeholder Management
14 25 (10.50%) Analytics
14 25 (10.50%) Migration
14 25 (10.50%) Scrum
14 25 (10.50%) Test Scripting
15 24 (10.08%) Software Engineering
16 23 (9.66%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (21.43%) SQL
2 49 (20.59%) Python
3 35 (14.71%) TypeScript
4 31 (13.03%) JavaScript
5 29 (12.18%) Java
6 16 (6.72%) C#
7 7 (2.94%) C++
8 6 (2.52%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.26%) Bash
9 3 (1.26%) C
9 3 (1.26%) Perl
9 3 (1.26%) Ruby
10 2 (0.84%) Assembly Language
10 2 (0.84%) COBOL
10 2 (0.84%) JCL
10 2 (0.84%) Shell Script
11 1 (0.42%) Groovy
11 1 (0.42%) Jython
Qualifications
1 49 (20.59%) Security Cleared
2 44 (18.49%) SC Cleared
3 27 (11.34%) Degree
4 23 (9.66%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.62%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.68%) ISEB
9 3 (1.26%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.26%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.84%) HNC
10 2 (0.84%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.84%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 1 (0.42%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.42%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (20.59%) QA
2 8 (3.36%) Accessibility
3 6 (2.52%) SLA
4 5 (2.10%) Data Quality
4 5 (2.10%) GAAP
5 3 (1.26%) PMO
6 2 (0.84%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.84%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 14 (5.88%) Docker
2 4 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.68%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.42%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (11.34%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.94%) Terraform
3 6 (2.52%) Ansible
3 6 (2.52%) Grafana
4 3 (1.26%) Nagios
4 3 (1.26%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.26%) Puppet
5 2 (0.84%) Istio
5 2 (0.84%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.42%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.42%) Kibana
Vendors
1 26 (10.92%) SAP
2 25 (10.50%) Oracle
3 17 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 15 (6.30%) ServiceNow
5 10 (4.20%) Workday
6 7 (2.94%) Databricks
6 7 (2.94%) Google
7 6 (2.52%) Confluent
7 6 (2.52%) IBM
7 6 (2.52%) OpenAI
8 5 (2.10%) Splunk
9 3 (1.26%) Adobe
9 3 (1.26%) HP
9 3 (1.26%) New Relic
9 3 (1.26%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.26%) VMware
10 2 (0.84%) AppDynamics
10 2 (0.84%) Cognizant
10 2 (0.84%) F5
10 2 (0.84%) Optimizely