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 2 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

 6 months to
2 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 493 466 547
Rank change year-on-year -27 +81 +158
Contract jobs citing TestRail 29 46 31
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.100% 0.15% 0.077%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.65% 1.11% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 19
10th Percentile £268 £381 £350
25th Percentile £350 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £506 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -7.95% +14.29%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £593
90th Percentile £625 - £623
UK median daily rate £459 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -8.20% -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 4,490 4,139 5,135
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 15.44% 13.30% 12.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,129 2,605 3,645
10th Percentile £325 £350 £375
25th Percentile £406 £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 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £545
% change year-on-year -3.85% -4.59% -2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 133 229
10th Percentile £39.00 £37.55 £45.62
25th Percentile £52.50 £51.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.00%
75th Percentile £70.12 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.00 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.00%

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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 2 November 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 2 November 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 +14 16 £488 -11.36% 8
North of England -26 10 £333 - 5
Yorkshire -27 4 £375 -
North East - 3 £438 - 2
North West - 3 £270 - 3
South West +10 1 £600 +50.00% 2
South East -26 1 - - 5
East of England - 1 - - 2
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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 4 (13.79%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Aladdin
1 2 (6.90%) Eagle PACE
1 2 (6.90%) Markit EDM
2 1 (3.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (3.45%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 10 (34.48%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (17.24%) GitHub
4 4 (13.79%) AWS
4 4 (13.79%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) Snowflake
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Functions
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (3.45%) Dropbox
6 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (3.45%) Miro
6 1 (3.45%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (3.45%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) ServiceMax
6 1 (3.45%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 29 (100.00%) JIRA
2 11 (37.93%) Selenium
2 11 (37.93%) Zephyr
3 8 (27.59%) Jenkins
4 7 (24.14%) Postman
5 6 (20.69%) Git
6 4 (13.79%) Cucumber
7 3 (10.34%) JMeter
7 3 (10.34%) JUnit
7 3 (10.34%) TestNG
7 3 (10.34%) WebDriver
8 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
8 2 (6.90%) Gatling
8 2 (6.90%) SpecFlow
9 1 (3.45%) Appium
9 1 (3.45%) Artifactory
9 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
9 1 (3.45%) Locust
9 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
9 1 (3.45%) ScriptRunner
General
1 15 (51.72%) Social Skills
2 11 (37.93%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (10.34%) Finance
4 2 (6.90%) Front Office
4 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (51.72%) Tester
2 6 (20.69%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) QA Tester
3 5 (17.24%) Test Leader
4 4 (13.79%) Automation Tester
4 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) QA Automation Tester
5 3 (10.34%) QA Engineer
5 3 (10.34%) Selenium Automation Tester
5 3 (10.34%) Selenium Tester
5 3 (10.34%) UAT Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Applications Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) QA Test Engineer
6 2 (6.90%) Salesforce Tester
6 2 (6.90%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.45%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (24.14%) REST
2 4 (13.79%) Playwright
3 3 (10.34%) SOAP
3 3 (10.34%) Web Services
4 2 (6.90%) Gherkin
4 2 (6.90%) JSON
4 2 (6.90%) XML
5 1 (3.45%) Flutter
5 1 (3.45%) OpenAPI
5 1 (3.45%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Algorithms
3 1 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Test Automation
1 20 (68.97%) Test Management
2 12 (41.38%) Agile
2 12 (41.38%) Validation
3 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
4 10 (34.48%) DevOps
5 9 (31.03%) API Testing
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (31.03%) Test Scripting
5 9 (31.03%) Test Strategy
5 9 (31.03%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (27.59%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (24.14%) Data Validation
7 7 (24.14%) SDLC
8 6 (20.69%) Defect Management
8 6 (20.69%) End-to-End Testing
8 6 (20.69%) Manual Testing
8 6 (20.69%) Regression Testing
9 4 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (27.59%) Java
2 6 (20.69%) SQL
3 5 (17.24%) JavaScript
3 5 (17.24%) Python
4 2 (6.90%) C#
4 2 (6.90%) XPath
5 1 (3.45%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (44.83%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.90%) BPSS Clearance
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (3.45%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) QA
2 3 (10.34%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) GDPR
3 1 (3.45%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (27.59%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 8 (27.59%) HP
2 4 (13.79%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.34%) Duck Creek
3 3 (10.34%) Guidewire
4 2 (6.90%) GoldenSource
4 2 (6.90%) Pega
4 2 (6.90%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.45%) Nintex
5 1 (3.45%) Okta
5 1 (3.45%) Workday
20 TestRail jobs in England