TestOps Contracts in England

TestOps
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for TestOps skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TestOps over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 536 645 763
Rank change year-on-year +109 +118 -132
Contract jobs citing TestOps 5 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.004% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.005% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 5
10th Percentile £530 - £459
25th Percentile £538 - £548
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.39%
75th Percentile - - £588
90th Percentile - - £629
UK median daily rate £625 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +11.39%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £25.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.00
75th Percentile - - £26.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £26.00
% change year-on-year - - -35.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

TestOps 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 31,539 42,849 64,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.92% 90.01% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,657 30,069 45,905
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,292 1,514 1,744
10th Percentile £12.84 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.04% +40.67% +7.00%

TestOps
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for TestOps in England

TestOps
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for TestOps in England

TestOps
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for TestOps in England

TestOps
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 TestOps within the England region over the 6 months to 28 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 - 4 £625 -
South West - 1 £550 - 1
TestOps
UK

TestOps
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 4 (80.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (20.00%) GitLab
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (80.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Lead
1 4 (80.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Governance Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) FMCG
1 3 (60.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) DevOps
1 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 4 (80.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (60.00%) Budgeting and Forecasting
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Demand Management
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (60.00%) Process Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Programme Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Bash
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk
1 1 (20.00%) VMware