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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 179 - 200
Rank change year-on-year - - +37
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 5 0 10
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.11% - 0.20%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.02% - 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 6
10th Percentile £368 - £605
25th Percentile £422 - £611
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £625
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.16%
75th Percentile £544 - £638
90th Percentile £548 - £644
England median daily rate £338 £513 £620
% change year-on-year -34.15% -17.34% +19.23%

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 489 474 614
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 11.00% 13.00% 12.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 359 282 419
10th Percentile £256 £330 £377
25th Percentile £363 £393 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -6.98% -2.27%
75th Percentile £550 £585 £615
90th Percentile £638 £645 £672
England median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 21 28
10th Percentile £43.75 £51.25 £52.13
25th Percentile £50.00 £54.63 £55.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £60.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.97% -3.20% -
75th Percentile £89.63 £63.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £97.00 £70.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +4.00%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing HP UFT relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

HP UFT job vacancy trend 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

HP UFT
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP UFT in the South East over the 6 months to 27 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP UFT in the South East

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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 27 December 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 -
Thames Valley - 2 £338 - 1
Berkshire - 2 £338 - 1
HP UFT
England

HP UFT
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Katalon Studio
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Automation Test Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Lead
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Matrix Organization
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) TDD
3 2 (40.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (20.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Test Management
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA