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

End-to-End Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 150 182
Rank change year-on-year +24 +32 +34
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 37 39 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 0.84% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.02% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 31 19
10th Percentile £267 £350 £363
25th Percentile £325 £384 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £541 £538 £466
90th Percentile £588 £606 £587
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £38.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year - +28.33% -41.18%
England median hourly rate £69.25 £38.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +79.87% +71.11% -47.67%

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 3,109 3,809 5,033
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 89.21% 82.39% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,936 2,283 3,400
10th Percentile £222 £258 £250
25th Percentile £385 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £625
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 270 247
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.00 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £35.00 £22.18
Median hourly rate £22.29 £57.35 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.14% +9.24% +61.54%
75th Percentile £53.75 £71.86 £65.55
90th Percentile £69.65 £78.75 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.96%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

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

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 9 September 2025.

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

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing End-to-End Testing

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 9 September 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 +23 30 £500 -4.76% 6
Berkshire +24 20 £500 -4.76% 3
Buckinghamshire +12 10 £325 -50.00% 3
Hampshire +13 4 £588 +6.77%
Surrey +7 1 £450 +15.38% 1
Kent - 1 - -
Middlesex - 1 - -
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 1 (2.70%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (37.84%) Azure
2 8 (21.62%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (18.92%) AWS
4 6 (16.22%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (10.81%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (10.81%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub
6 1 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.70%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.70%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) 3GPP
1 1 (2.70%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (18.92%) NoSQL
2 4 (10.81%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.41%) SAP HANA
4 1 (2.70%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (40.54%) JIRA
2 6 (16.22%) Selenium
3 5 (13.51%) Cypress.io
4 3 (8.11%) NUnit
5 2 (5.41%) HP UFT
5 2 (5.41%) Jenkins
5 2 (5.41%) Katalon Studio
5 2 (5.41%) Postman
5 2 (5.41%) SpecFlow
6 1 (2.70%) Bitbucket
6 1 (2.70%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.70%) Git
6 1 (2.70%) MSTest
6 1 (2.70%) TeamCity
6 1 (2.70%) TestRail
6 1 (2.70%) WebDriver
General
1 16 (43.24%) Social Skills
2 11 (29.73%) Finance
3 7 (18.92%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.70%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (18.92%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (18.92%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Consultant
2 6 (16.22%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 6 (16.22%) Tester
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Test Analyst
3 5 (13.51%) Test Manager
4 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (10.81%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Functional Consultant
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Integration Test Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Programme Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Programme Test Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Test Leader
5 3 (8.11%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (18.92%) Playwright
2 4 (10.81%) WebdriverIO
3 2 (5.41%) .NET
3 2 (5.41%) Apollo GraphQL
3 2 (5.41%) GraphQL
3 2 (5.41%) React
3 2 (5.41%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) SAP Fiori
3 2 (5.41%) SAP PI
4 1 (2.70%) JSON
4 1 (2.70%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) Spring
4 1 (2.70%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.70%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (59.46%) Test Automation
2 18 (48.65%) DevOps
3 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (35.14%) CI/CD
4 13 (35.14%) Scenario Testing
4 13 (35.14%) Test Strategy
5 12 (32.43%) Agile
5 12 (32.43%) Validation
6 11 (29.73%) Performance Testing
6 11 (29.73%) Test Scripting
7 8 (21.62%) Data Migration
7 8 (21.62%) Migration
7 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
8 7 (18.92%) Defect Management
8 7 (18.92%) High Availability
8 7 (18.92%) Load Testing
8 7 (18.92%) Risk Analysis
8 7 (18.92%) Software Testing
8 7 (18.92%) Test Planning
8 7 (18.92%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (24.32%) SQL
2 8 (21.62%) C#
3 7 (18.92%) Python
4 4 (10.81%) VB
5 2 (5.41%) Java
6 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (18.92%) AWS Certification
1 7 (18.92%) SC Cleared
1 7 (18.92%) Security Cleared
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (35.14%) QA
2 2 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.41%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 10 (27.03%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.41%) SAP
3 1 (2.70%) CheckPoint
3 1 (2.70%) Conga
3 1 (2.70%) Ericsson
3 1 (2.70%) Red Hat
3 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (2.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (2.70%) Snow