HP UFT Contracts in England

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for HP UFT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP UFT over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 527 614 754
Rank change year-on-year +87 +140 -149
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 11 34 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.030% 0.068% 0.049%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.26% 0.45% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 26 27
10th Percentile - £400 £362
25th Percentile £513 £470 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +15.56% +21.62%
75th Percentile £619 £602 £550
90th Percentile £641 £650 £597
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +8.00% +11.11% +20.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

HP UFT is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 4,250 7,475 12,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 11.53% 14.95% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,906 5,280 9,089
10th Percentile £352 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.82% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 221 184
10th Percentile £32.74 £44.64 £37.55
25th Percentile £55.00 £52.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +9.31%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.25
90th Percentile £81.30 £82.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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 +85 9 £569 +13.75% 4
South West +23 2 £540 -12.90%
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UK

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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 3 (27.27%) WebLogic
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
2 2 (18.18%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (36.36%) Relational Database
2 3 (27.27%) MySQL
3 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
2 3 (27.27%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
3 2 (18.18%) LoadRunner
3 2 (18.18%) WebDriver
4 1 (9.09%) FitNesse
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Banking
2 4 (36.36%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Java Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Developer
3 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) Spring
2 3 (27.27%) AngularJS
2 3 (27.27%) jQuery
2 3 (27.27%) Kafka
2 3 (27.27%) RESTful
2 3 (27.27%) SOAP
2 3 (27.27%) Spring Boot
2 3 (27.27%) Struts
2 3 (27.27%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
3 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) Unit Testing
4 4 (36.36%) DevOps
4 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Batch Processing
5 3 (27.27%) SDLC
6 2 (18.18%) Asset Management
6 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
6 2 (18.18%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
6 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Service Management
6 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
7 1 (9.09%) API Development
7 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
7 1 (9.09%) Incident Management
7 1 (9.09%) Migration
7 1 (9.09%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) DV Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Kubernetes
2 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) IBM
1 3 (27.27%) Micro Focus
1 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 2 (18.18%) HP
2 2 (18.18%) OpenText
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft