HP UFT Contract Job Trends in the South East

HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring HP UFT skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 - 199
Rank change year-on-year - - +64
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 3 0 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.086% - 0.18%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.77% - 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile £516 - £605
25th Percentile £522 - £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.61%
75th Percentile £547 - £638
90th Percentile £549 - £644
England median daily rate £520 £525 £625
% change year-on-year -1.00% -16.00% +20.08%

All Development Application Skills
South East

HP UFT falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 391 553 695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.21% 11.96% 12.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 351 457
10th Percentile £274 £325 £363
25th Percentile £375 £399 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -6.98% +2.38%
75th Percentile £550 £603 £615
90th Percentile £615 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -3.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 33 40
10th Percentile - £45.74 £47.66
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £52.50
Median hourly rate £55.00 £65.00 £58.25
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +11.59% -7.91%
75th Percentile £76.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £88.97 £73.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year - - +8.33%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing HP UFT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for HP UFT in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP UFT.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP UFT

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP UFT.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing HP UFT

HP UFT
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 HP UFT within the South East region over the 6 months to 18 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
Hampshire - 3 £538 -
HP UFT
England

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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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Matrix Organization
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Waterfall
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA