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

End-to-End Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England 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 141 159 132
Rank change year-on-year +18 -27 +79
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 49 8 59
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 1.20% 0.19% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.23% 1.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 8 40
10th Percentile £373 £324 £407
25th Percentile £408 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% +1.27%
75th Percentile £525 £541 £541
90th Percentile £640 £558 £576
England median daily rate £500 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -4.76% +13.51% -14.35%

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 3,638 3,466 4,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.78% 84.29% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,383 1,905 3,024
10th Percentile £254 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.05% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £559 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £663 £679
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 179 211
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.75 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.50 £35.36 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -30.71% +30.00% +29.52%
75th Percentile £41.94 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £67.25 £70.00 £63.75
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 of England

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 of England.

End-to-End Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

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

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

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

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 7 October 2025.

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

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing End-to-End Testing

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 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
North West +12 30 £450 +12.50% 7
Yorkshire -11 12 £460 -3.16% 6
North East - 7 £500 - 2
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 (8.16%) Confluence
2 1 (2.04%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 7 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (28.57%) AWS
2 8 (16.33%) Azure
3 7 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
4 4 (8.16%) GCP
4 4 (8.16%) GitHub
5 2 (4.08%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.08%) npm
5 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 2 (4.08%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.04%) Amazon SageMaker
6 1 (2.04%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.04%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.04%) Azure Machine Learning
6 1 (2.04%) Bloomreach
6 1 (2.04%) PaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.16%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (6.12%) MongoDB
2 3 (6.12%) MySQL
2 3 (6.12%) NoSQL
2 3 (6.12%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.08%) Redis
4 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (22.45%) JIRA
2 6 (12.24%) Git
3 4 (8.16%) GitLab
3 4 (8.16%) Postman
4 2 (4.08%) Cypress.io
4 2 (4.08%) JUnit
4 2 (4.08%) REST Assured
4 2 (4.08%) Selenium
4 2 (4.08%) SoapUI
4 2 (4.08%) TestNG
4 2 (4.08%) Zephyr
5 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.04%) MLflow
General
1 19 (38.78%) Public Sector
2 18 (36.73%) Social Skills
3 17 (34.69%) Finance
4 10 (20.41%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (16.33%) Banking
6 5 (10.20%) Local Government
7 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Analyst
1 10 (20.41%) Developer
2 9 (18.37%) Test Analyst
3 8 (16.33%) Test Manager
4 5 (10.20%) Architect
4 5 (10.20%) Full-Stack Developer
4 5 (10.20%) SAP Analyst
4 5 (10.20%) SAP Test Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) QA Engineer
5 4 (8.16%) Siebel Developer
5 4 (8.16%) Test Architect
6 3 (6.12%) Lead
6 3 (6.12%) Tester
7 2 (4.08%) Designer
7 2 (4.08%) SAP Manager
7 2 (4.08%) SAP Test Manager
7 2 (4.08%) Solutions Designer
7 2 (4.08%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.08%) UAT Analyst
7 2 (4.08%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (24.49%) Web Services
2 7 (14.29%) Node.js
2 7 (14.29%) REST
2 7 (14.29%) SOAP
3 5 (10.20%) RESTful
3 5 (10.20%) Spring
4 4 (8.16%) AngularJS
4 4 (8.16%) JMS
4 4 (8.16%) Middleware
5 3 (6.12%) CSS
5 3 (6.12%) HTML
5 3 (6.12%) LDAP
5 3 (6.12%) Playwright
5 3 (6.12%) Spring Boot
5 3 (6.12%) Spring MVC
6 2 (4.08%) Gherkin
6 2 (4.08%) Hibernate
6 2 (4.08%) OpenAPI
6 2 (4.08%) Swagger
6 2 (4.08%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Public Cloud
1 5 (10.20%) Virtual Team
2 3 (6.12%) Data Structures
2 3 (6.12%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (6.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.04%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) NHS
4 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.16%) Android
1 4 (8.16%) Apple iOS
1 4 (8.16%) Linux
2 2 (4.08%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (32.65%) Agile
1 16 (32.65%) CI/CD
2 14 (28.57%) Test Management
3 13 (26.53%) Test Automation
3 13 (26.53%) Test Strategy
3 13 (26.53%) User Acceptance Testing
4 12 (24.49%) Test Scripting
5 10 (20.41%) Migration
5 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (20.41%) Regression Testing
6 8 (16.33%) Defect Management
7 7 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
8 6 (12.24%) Data Modelling
8 6 (12.24%) DevOps
8 6 (12.24%) Functional Testing
8 6 (12.24%) Requirements Gathering
8 6 (12.24%) Scrum
8 6 (12.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (12.24%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (10.20%) SAP Implementation
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) Java
2 9 (18.37%) SQL
3 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
4 4 (8.16%) PL/SQL
5 3 (6.12%) Python
6 2 (4.08%) Bash
7 1 (2.04%) Bicep
7 1 (2.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) ISTQB
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) Degree
4 5 (10.20%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.08%) CISM
5 2 (4.08%) CISSP
5 2 (4.08%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.04%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (30.61%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) SEPA
3 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.08%) ISO 22301
3 2 (4.08%) ISO 31000
3 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (4.08%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (12.24%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Kubernetes
2 3 (6.12%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (6.12%) Terraform
3 2 (4.08%) Ansible
3 2 (4.08%) Grafana
3 2 (4.08%) HP ALM
3 2 (4.08%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 8 (16.33%) SAP
2 5 (10.20%) ServiceNow
3 4 (8.16%) Oracle
3 4 (8.16%) Siebel
4 3 (6.12%) Google
4 3 (6.12%) Microsoft
5 2 (4.08%) BeyondTrust
5 2 (4.08%) CyberArk
5 2 (4.08%) HP
5 2 (4.08%) Thycotic
6 1 (2.04%) Atlassian