HP UFT Contracts in England

HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring HP UFT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP UFT over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 470 531 619
Rank change year-on-year +61 +88 +126
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 15 11 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.062% 0.030% 0.067%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.45% 0.26% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 26
10th Percentile £320 - £400
25th Percentile £391 £513 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £540 £520
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% +3.85% +15.56%
75th Percentile £524 £619 £602
90th Percentile £579 £641 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +8.00% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
England

HP UFT falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 3,305 4,263 7,542
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 13.57% 11.46% 14.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,218 2,908 5,318
10th Percentile £350 £355 £375
25th Percentile £413 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £534 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.41% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 182 222
10th Percentile £27.50 £31.84 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.00 £52.50 £52.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.34
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.97% +21.46%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £82.35 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing HP UFT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for HP UFT in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP UFT in England.

Daily rate trend for HP UFT in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP UFT in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP UFT in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP UFT in England.

Hourly rate trend for HP UFT in England

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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 HP UFT within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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 +35 6 £448 -21.32%
North of England - 6 £520 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Midlands - 2 £326 -
North West - 2 £335 - 2
HP UFT
UK

HP UFT
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 7 (46.67%) Confluence
2 2 (13.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) GitHub
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (6.67%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Firewall
1 2 (13.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (13.33%) IDOL
2 2 (13.33%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) Selenium
2 9 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 9 (60.00%) JIRA
2 9 (60.00%) JUnit
3 8 (53.33%) Gradle
3 8 (53.33%) IntelliJ
3 8 (53.33%) Maven
4 4 (26.67%) CA Release Automation
4 4 (26.67%) Cucumber
4 4 (26.67%) Cypress.io
4 4 (26.67%) Git
4 4 (26.67%) NetBeans
4 4 (26.67%) Subversion
4 4 (26.67%) TestComplete
5 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
6 1 (6.67%) Appium
6 1 (6.67%) Postman
6 1 (6.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (26.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 5 (33.33%) Tester
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Test Analyst
2 4 (26.67%) Automation Tester
2 4 (26.67%) Java Automation Tester
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 3 (20.00%) Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 3 (20.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (33.33%) Kafka
1 5 (33.33%) Playwright
2 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 4 (26.67%) Hibernate
2 4 (26.67%) J2EE
2 4 (26.67%) Spring
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Boot
2 4 (26.67%) Spring Integration
2 4 (26.67%) Spring MVC
2 4 (26.67%) Web Services
3 3 (20.00%) Ajax
3 3 (20.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (20.00%) Bootstrap
3 3 (20.00%) CSS
3 3 (20.00%) HTML
3 3 (20.00%) HTML5
3 3 (20.00%) jQuery
3 3 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Data Structures
2 3 (20.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (40.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (53.33%) Software Testing
3 7 (46.67%) Open Source
4 6 (40.00%) OO
5 5 (33.33%) Agile
5 5 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Analytics
6 4 (26.67%) API Development
6 4 (26.67%) BDD
6 4 (26.67%) Case Management
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
6 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
6 4 (26.67%) Data Privacy
6 4 (26.67%) Data Transformation
6 4 (26.67%) Deployment Automation
6 4 (26.67%) DevOps
6 4 (26.67%) Exploratory Testing
6 4 (26.67%) QA Automation
6 4 (26.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 7 (46.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (33.33%) Python
4 4 (26.67%) C#
5 3 (20.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) DV Cleared
4 1 (6.67%) Degree
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) Progress Chef
1 4 (26.67%) Puppet
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Bloomberg
1 4 (26.67%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (26.67%) Reuters
2 2 (13.33%) Oracle