Test Assurance Contracts in England

Test Assurance
UK > England

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 523 611 734
Rank change year-on-year +88 +123 -143
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 13 43 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.086% 0.068%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.095% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 28 37
10th Percentile £281 £412 £338
25th Percentile £380 £451 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £538 £475
Median % change year-on-year -19.07% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £453 £600 £550
90th Percentile £499 £615 £615
UK median daily rate £435 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -19.07% +13.16% +2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Assurance 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 32,110 45,282 64,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.21% 90.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,055 31,791 45,856
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,587 1,766
10th Percentile £12.95 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
Median % change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.68
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance in England over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance within the England region over the 6 months to 2 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 +98 10 £408 -24.19%
South East +17 2 £456 -3.95%
Midlands +27 1 £425 -29.17%
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
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 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 4 (30.77%) Azure
1 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
3 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) Miro
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) Firewall
1 1 (7.69%) Internet
1 1 (7.69%) PuTTY
1 1 (7.69%) SD-WAN
1 1 (7.69%) WAN
1 1 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Visual Studio
2 3 (23.08%) WebDriver
3 2 (15.38%) Appium
3 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
3 2 (15.38%) Postman
3 2 (15.38%) Rational Performance Tester
3 2 (15.38%) SpecFlow
4 1 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.69%) JMeter
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
General
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Public Sector
3 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Automotive
4 1 (7.69%) Back Office
4 1 (7.69%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) Test Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Senior
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (23.08%) Test Manager
5 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Junior
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Junior Test Analyst
5 2 (15.38%) Oracle Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (7.69%) Lead
6 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
6 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
6 1 (7.69%) QA Tester
6 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Tester
6 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
6 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
6 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.69%) Playwright
2 1 (7.69%) RESTful
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
1 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Test Strategy
3 6 (46.15%) SDLC
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 5 (38.46%) Test Management
4 5 (38.46%) Test Scripting
5 4 (30.77%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Performance Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
6 3 (23.08%) BDD
6 3 (23.08%) CI/CD
6 3 (23.08%) Defect Management
6 3 (23.08%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 2 (15.38%) Agile Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 3 (23.08%) C#
3 2 (15.38%) Java
4 1 (7.69%) C++
4 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) ISTQB
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) ISEB
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (7.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (53.85%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) HP ALM
1 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) IBM
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow
4 1 (7.69%) VMware