End-to-End Testing Contracts in the South East

End-to-End Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 140 169 186
Rank change year-on-year +29 +17 +4
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 19 36 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.63% 0.65% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 22
10th Percentile £400 £354 £366
25th Percentile £450 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £545
90th Percentile £648 £738 £666
England median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £26.03 -
England median hourly rate - £26.03 £57.00
% change year-on-year - -54.33% +62.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the South East

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the South East

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

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

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

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the South East

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South East 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
Thames Valley +44 11 £500 +17.65% 7
Berkshire +33 8 £500 +17.65% 4
Hampshire +18 3 £345 -44.80% 4
East Sussex - 3 £650 -
Surrey +9 2 £400 -11.11% 3
Oxfordshire +4 2 £525 - 1
Buckinghamshire +16 1 - - 3
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 4 (21.05%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (15.79%) Power Platform
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Data Factory
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Synapse Analytics
4 2 (10.53%) Firebase
5 1 (5.26%) AWS
5 1 (5.26%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (5.26%) NoSQL
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) Postman
2 3 (15.79%) SpecFlow
2 3 (15.79%) TestRail
3 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 8 (42.11%) Finance
2 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Electronics
4 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.53%) Marketing
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Azure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
4 2 (10.53%) Lead
4 2 (10.53%) Process Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Data Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Leader
4 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) PySpark
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Core
2 2 (10.53%) AngularJS
2 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
2 2 (10.53%) Gherkin
2 2 (10.53%) JSON
2 2 (10.53%) React
2 2 (10.53%) Vue
2 2 (10.53%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Video\Live Streaming
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) EPoS
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Agile
1 7 (36.84%) Test Strategy
1 7 (36.84%) User Stories
2 6 (31.58%) Workshop Facilitation
3 5 (26.32%) DevOps
3 5 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (21.05%) Validation
5 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (15.79%) Data Validation
5 3 (15.79%) GAP Analysis
5 3 (15.79%) Load Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Manual Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Migration
5 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (15.79%) System Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Test Management
5 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) JavaScript
3 1 (5.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
1 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) QA
2 2 (10.53%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (21.05%) SAP
2 3 (15.79%) Databricks
2 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.26%) Snow