End-to-End Testing Contracts in the North West

End-to-End Testing
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 100 113 148
Rank change year-on-year +13 +35 +1
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 20 24 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.02% 0.87% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 1.01% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 8
10th Percentile £335 - £394
25th Percentile £378 - £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +10.81%
75th Percentile £575 £694 £594
90th Percentile £588 - £665
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the North West

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the North West

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

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

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

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

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 West 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
Manchester +6 10 £475 -5.00% 18
Cheshire - 6 £355 - 1
Merseyside - 3 £650 - 4
Cumbria - 1 £500 -
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (5.00%) 4G
1 1 (5.00%) 5G
1 1 (5.00%) LTE
1 1 (5.00%) MIMO
1 1 (5.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) Siebel EIM
2 1 (5.00%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.00%) MySQL
2 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (30.00%) Selenium
2 4 (20.00%) JMeter
2 4 (20.00%) LoadRunner
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
4 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) Git
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Finance
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 3 (15.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (10.00%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Tester
2 4 (20.00%) Software Tester
3 3 (15.00%) Developer
4 2 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Siebel Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Business Continuity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Business Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.00%) IT Manager
5 1 (5.00%) IT Services Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Performance Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SAP APO Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Service Continuity Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Service Manager
5 1 (5.00%) Siebel Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JMS
1 3 (15.00%) Node.js
1 3 (15.00%) SOAP
1 3 (15.00%) Web Services
2 2 (10.00%) Playwright
3 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (5.00%) CSS
3 1 (5.00%) CSS3
3 1 (5.00%) GraphQL
3 1 (5.00%) HTML
3 1 (5.00%) HTML5
3 1 (5.00%) React
3 1 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (5.00%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (40.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Performance Testing
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) System Integration Testing
3 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
4 6 (30.00%) Integration Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Migration
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (25.00%) DevOps
5 5 (25.00%) SDLC
5 5 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (25.00%) Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Data Validation
6 4 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
6 4 (20.00%) Process Improvement
6 4 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
6 4 (20.00%) Software Testing
6 4 (20.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) SQL
2 3 (15.00%) Java
2 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
3 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Degree
4 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 22301
1 2 (10.00%) ISO 31000
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 3 (15.00%) Siebel
4 2 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (10.00%) SAP
5 1 (5.00%) Ariba
5 1 (5.00%) Huawei