End-to-End Testing Contracts in the North of England

End-to-End Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 154 159
Rank change year-on-year +16 +5 +34
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 28 31 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.85% 0.65% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.76% 1.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 31 49
10th Percentile £328 £400 £354
25th Percentile £400 - £512
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £565
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -11.50% +18.95%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £580
90th Percentile £580 - £709
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the North of England

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the North of England

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the North of England

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the North of England

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
North West +13 20 £500 - 24
Yorkshire +9 7 £450 +3.69% 6
North East 0 1 £475 +20.25% 2
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.86%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Bloomreach
2 1 (3.57%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.57%) GitHub
2 1 (3.57%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) 3GPP
1 1 (3.57%) 4G
1 1 (3.57%) 5G
1 1 (3.57%) LTE
1 1 (3.57%) MIMO
1 1 (3.57%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (10.71%) Siebel EIM
2 2 (7.14%) MySQL
3 1 (3.57%) MongoDB
3 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
3 1 (3.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (28.57%) Selenium
2 4 (14.29%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) JMeter
2 4 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 3 (10.71%) Postman
4 2 (7.14%) REST Assured
5 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 17 (60.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (25.00%) Finance
4 6 (21.43%) Banking
4 6 (21.43%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Tester
2 5 (17.86%) Developer
3 4 (14.29%) QA Engineer
3 4 (14.29%) Software Tester
4 2 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (7.14%) Java Developer
4 2 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Siebel Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Automation Test Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Designer
5 1 (3.57%) Full-Stack Java Developer
5 1 (3.57%) Lead
5 1 (3.57%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (3.57%) QA Manual Tester
5 1 (3.57%) React Developer
5 1 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (3.57%) Service Continuity Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Test Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (14.29%) Web Services
2 3 (10.71%) JMS
2 3 (10.71%) Node.js
2 3 (10.71%) SOAP
3 2 (7.14%) Playwright
3 2 (7.14%) React
3 2 (7.14%) REST
4 1 (3.57%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.57%) CSS3
4 1 (3.57%) GraphQL
4 1 (3.57%) HTML5
4 1 (3.57%) jQuery
4 1 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (3.57%) MyBatis
4 1 (3.57%) OpenAPI
4 1 (3.57%) RESTful
4 1 (3.57%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.57%) Spring MVC
4 1 (3.57%) Swagger
4 1 (3.57%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.57%) NHS
2 1 (3.57%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 11 (39.29%) Agile
3 10 (35.71%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (32.14%) Performance Testing
5 8 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 8 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 7 (25.00%) DevOps
6 7 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 7 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
7 6 (21.43%) Integration Testing
7 6 (21.43%) Migration
7 6 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (21.43%) SDLC
7 6 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (21.43%) Validation
8 5 (17.86%) Change Management
8 5 (17.86%) Software Testing
9 4 (14.29%) Data Validation
9 4 (14.29%) System Testing
9 4 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 7 (25.00%) Java
3 4 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 3 (10.71%) PL/SQL
5 2 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
3 4 (14.29%) Degree
3 4 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CBAP
5 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 22301
2 2 (7.14%) ISO 31000
2 2 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (3.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) HP ALM
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Oracle
1 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
2 3 (10.71%) Siebel
3 2 (7.14%) HP
3 2 (7.14%) SAP
4 1 (3.57%) Ariba
4 1 (3.57%) Atlassian
4 1 (3.57%) Dynatrace
4 1 (3.57%) Huawei