TestRail Contract Job Trends in England

Gurock TestRail
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring TestRail skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 514 463 510
Rank change year-on-year -51 +47 +168
Contract jobs citing TestRail 36 50 47
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.12% 0.17% 0.12%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.76% 1.28% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 39 31
10th Percentile £269 £400 £358
25th Percentile £350 £475 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +12.82%
75th Percentile £488 £575 £623
90th Percentile £515 - £712
UK median daily rate £400 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +10.00%

All Development Application Skills
England

TestRail 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 4,724 3,896 4,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.20% 13.28% 12.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,285 2,442 3,353
10th Percentile £333 £341 £375
25th Percentile £410 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £644
90th Percentile £700 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £540
% change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 90 204
10th Percentile £39.53 £46.06 £45.88
25th Percentile £54.81 £54.43 £48.43
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.25 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.77% -2.69% +5.69%
75th Percentile £70.00 £69.69 £77.50
90th Percentile £82.50 £75.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +5.69%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing TestRail relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

TestRail job vacancy trend in England

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Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TestRail.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TestRail

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail in England over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in England

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Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TestRail.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing TestRail

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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 TestRail within the England region over the 6 months to 14 December 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 +10 18 £400 -27.27% 1
North of England - 16 £372 - 7
Yorkshire - 10 £419 - 6
North East - 3 £438 - 1
North West - 3 £270 -
East of England -22 1 - - 1
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UK

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.33%) Confluence
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Aladdin
1 2 (5.56%) Eagle PACE
1 2 (5.56%) Markit EDM
1 2 (5.56%) NetSuite
2 1 (2.78%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (52.78%) Azure
2 10 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (25.00%) GitHub
4 7 (19.44%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (13.89%) GCP
5 5 (13.89%) SaaS
6 2 (5.56%) Snowflake
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Functions
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (2.78%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (2.78%) Dropbox
7 1 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.78%) Miro
7 1 (2.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (2.78%) Serverless
7 1 (2.78%) ServiceMax
7 1 (2.78%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (16.67%) MySQL
1 6 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.78%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 35 (97.22%) JIRA
2 19 (52.78%) Selenium
3 17 (47.22%) Postman
4 14 (38.89%) Cucumber
5 13 (36.11%) Jenkins
6 11 (30.56%) Zephyr
7 7 (19.44%) REST Assured
8 6 (16.67%) SpecFlow
9 5 (13.89%) Cypress.io
9 5 (13.89%) Git
9 5 (13.89%) GitLab
10 3 (8.33%) JMeter
11 2 (5.56%) Gatling
12 1 (2.78%) Artifactory
12 1 (2.78%) Bitbucket
12 1 (2.78%) Locust
12 1 (2.78%) ScriptRunner
General
1 16 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Finance
4 3 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (5.56%) Banking
5 2 (5.56%) Front Office
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Legal
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (38.89%) Tester
2 11 (30.56%) Lead
3 9 (25.00%) Test Engineer
4 8 (22.22%) Test Leader
5 7 (19.44%) Test Automation Engineer
6 4 (11.11%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (11.11%) Automation Tester
7 3 (8.33%) Lead Test Engineer
7 3 (8.33%) UAT Tester
8 2 (5.56%) Analyst
8 2 (5.56%) Applications Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) Manual Tester
8 2 (5.56%) QA Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) QA Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) QA Test Engineer
8 2 (5.56%) QA Tester
8 2 (5.56%) Salesforce Tester
8 2 (5.56%) Test Analyst
9 1 (2.78%) Senior
9 1 (2.78%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (33.33%) REST
2 8 (22.22%) Playwright
3 6 (16.67%) .NET
3 6 (16.67%) JSON
3 6 (16.67%) XML
4 5 (13.89%) LDAP
4 5 (13.89%) OpenID
4 5 (13.89%) SailPoint
5 2 (5.56%) Gherkin
6 1 (2.78%) OpenAPI
6 1 (2.78%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (2.78%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 22 (61.11%) Test Management
3 21 (58.33%) Agile
3 21 (58.33%) API Testing
4 18 (50.00%) DevOps
5 15 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 15 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (41.67%) Validation
6 13 (36.11%) Test Scripting
7 12 (33.33%) Defect Management
7 12 (33.33%) Test Strategy
8 11 (30.56%) SDLC
9 10 (27.78%) Manual Testing
9 10 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
10 9 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
10 9 (25.00%) BDD
11 8 (22.22%) Data Validation
12 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (19.44%) ETL
12 7 (19.44%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) Java
2 13 (36.11%) SQL
3 12 (33.33%) Python
4 9 (25.00%) JavaScript
5 6 (16.67%) C#
5 6 (16.67%) PHP
5 6 (16.67%) XPath
6 1 (2.78%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (30.56%) ISTQB
2 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Security Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (38.89%) QA
2 3 (8.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (25.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (25.00%) HP
2 6 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 2 (5.56%) GoldenSource
4 2 (5.56%) Pega
4 2 (5.56%) Salesforce
4 2 (5.56%) Workday
5 1 (2.78%) Atlassian
5 1 (2.78%) Nintex
5 1 (2.78%) Okta
5 1 (2.78%) Oracle
5 1 (2.78%) SAP