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

End-to-End Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West 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 100 119 130
Rank change year-on-year +19 +11 +36
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 14 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.73% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 0.72% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 19
10th Percentile £362 £440 £373
25th Percentile £409 £505 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £564 £463
Median % change year-on-year -15.74% +21.89% -8.42%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £541
90th Percentile £588 - £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -4.76% +9.38% -6.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,738 2,213 2,887
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.24% 83.29% 87.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 997 1,333 2,013
10th Percentile £215 £281 £313
25th Percentile £363 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £634 £650
90th Percentile £700 £710 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.19% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 221 257
10th Percentile £14.67 £15.62 £20.40
25th Percentile £18.51 £46.25 £44.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £64.15
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +5.23% +11.87%
75th Percentile £63.75 £72.50 £73.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £83.40
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 West

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

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

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

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

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

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

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

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Bristol +14 9 £450 +2.27% 3
Wiltshire +16 4 £550 +3.29% 5
Dorset - 1 - -
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 3 (21.43%) Confluence
2 2 (14.29%) Alfresco
2 2 (14.29%) Camunda
Cloud Services
1 7 (50.00%) AWS
2 4 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 2 (14.29%) MySQL
1 2 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (14.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Test Manager
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Migration Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Migration Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (14.29%) Test Data Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Test Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Tester
4 1 (7.14%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) JPA
1 2 (14.29%) Kafka
1 2 (14.29%) Keycloak
1 2 (14.29%) REST
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Spring Boot
1 2 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 4 (28.57%) PKI
2 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Defect Management
2 5 (35.71%) Migration
2 5 (35.71%) System Integration Testing
2 5 (35.71%) Validation
3 4 (28.57%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (28.57%) Server Migrations
4 3 (21.43%) Functional Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Microservices
4 3 (21.43%) Regression Testing
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (14.29%) Observability
5 2 (14.29%) Smoke Testing
5 2 (14.29%) SOLID
5 2 (14.29%) Sprint Review
Programming Languages
1 2 (14.29%) Java
1 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 3 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
1 1 (7.14%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (7.14%) Graphite
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) IFS