Smoke Testing Contracts in England

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
UK > England

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 650 769
Rank change year-on-year +110 +119 -152
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 8 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.012% 0.030%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.025% 0.013% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 14
10th Percentile £395 £523 £352
25th Percentile £463 £556 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £556 £628 £663
90th Percentile £568 £634 £740
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -9.38% +26.32% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Smoke 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 32,103 45,050 64,614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.60% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,075 31,613 45,917
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% +7.61%
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 2,251 1,592 1,754
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.42
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Smoke Testing in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smoke Testing in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smoke Testing in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Smoke Testing 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 Smoke Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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 +112 3 £538 -10.42%
South West - 2 £513 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
Smoke Testing
UK

Smoke 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:

Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (12.50%) MSI
General
1 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (12.50%) Banking
1 1 (12.50%) Finance
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) IAM Consultant
1 3 (37.50%) Lead
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Lead Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Senior
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
2 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
2 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
2 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) LDAP
1 3 (37.50%) OAuth
1 3 (37.50%) OpenID
1 3 (37.50%) SAML
2 1 (12.50%) CSS
2 1 (12.50%) HTML
2 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Identity Access Management
1 3 (37.50%) Use Case
1 3 (37.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (25.00%) Regression Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Scrum
2 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
3 1 (12.50%) Change Advisory Board
3 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
3 1 (12.50%) ITIL
3 1 (12.50%) Release Management
3 1 (12.50%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Ping Identity
2 1 (12.50%) Citrix