End-to-End Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

End-to-End Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 - 31
Rank change year-on-year - - +23
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 7 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 2.38% - 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.85% - 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £448 - -
25th Percentile £469 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £511 - -
90th Percentile £564 - -
England median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -14.35%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

End-to-End Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 246 258 202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.67% 91.17% 86.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 97 157
10th Percentile £225 £321 £320
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £575
90th Percentile £643 £708 £636
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 35 11
10th Percentile £13.90 £13.75 £16.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £15.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +48.85% +19.90%
75th Percentile £20.63 £46.18 £39.97
90th Percentile £48.80 £70.00 £46.18
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing End-to-End Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

End-to-End Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the North East

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing End-to-End Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Tyne and Wear - 7 £500 - 1
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (42.86%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
2 2 (28.57%) GitHub
2 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MongoDB
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
1 3 (42.86%) NoSQL
1 3 (42.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) GitLab
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
General
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
2 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Developer
1 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Developer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Lead
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Test Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (71.43%) Web Services
2 3 (42.86%) Node.js
2 3 (42.86%) RESTful
2 3 (42.86%) Spring
2 3 (42.86%) Spring Boot
2 3 (42.86%) Spring MVC
3 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
3 2 (28.57%) Middleware
3 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
3 2 (28.57%) REST
3 2 (28.57%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Full-Stack Development
2 3 (42.86%) MVC
2 3 (42.86%) SFIA
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) Design Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 2 (28.57%) Fintech
3 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (28.57%) UML
3 2 (28.57%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Bash
2 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (28.57%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Grafana
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Prometheus
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google