End-to-End Testing Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

End-to-End Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 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 85 108 133
Rank change year-on-year +23 +25 +32
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 30 13 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.83% 0.58% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.01% 0.68% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 12 10
10th Percentile £263 £401 £363
25th Percentile £325 £450 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £413
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +27.27% -13.16%
75th Percentile £525 £528 £452
90th Percentile £576 £628 £576
South East median daily rate £500 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +5.26% +11.76% -10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,490 1,905 2,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 91.02% 85.16% 90.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 903 1,072 1,710
10th Percentile £293 £300 £275
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £520
Median % change year-on-year -2.07% -1.81% +4.00%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £664 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.14% +3.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 89 90
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.84 £16.39
25th Percentile £15.12 £32.00 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £60.46 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -58.40% +20.91% +166.67%
75th Percentile £44.68 £70.39 £66.00
90th Percentile £78.00 £87.46 £74.81
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.14% +9.24% +61.54%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the Thames Valley

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the Thames Valley

End-to-End Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +24 20 £500 -4.76% 3
Buckinghamshire +12 10 £325 -50.00% 2
End-to-End Testing
South East

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (43.33%) Azure
2 7 (23.33%) AWS
2 7 (23.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (3.33%) OpenShift
5 1 (3.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) 3GPP
1 1 (3.33%) 5G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (23.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (13.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (6.67%) SAP HANA
4 1 (3.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 14 (46.67%) JIRA
2 4 (13.33%) Cypress.io
3 3 (10.00%) NUnit
3 3 (10.00%) Selenium
4 2 (6.67%) Postman
5 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
5 1 (3.33%) Git
5 1 (3.33%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.33%) MSTest
5 1 (3.33%) SpecFlow
5 1 (3.33%) TeamCity
5 1 (3.33%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.33%) Legal
5 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Cloud Engineer
1 7 (23.33%) DevOps Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Tester
4 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps
4 4 (13.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Functional Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Analyst
4 4 (13.33%) Integration Test Analyst
5 3 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (6.67%) Automation Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Data Migration Tester
6 2 (6.67%) Developer
6 2 (6.67%) React Developer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Engineer
6 2 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Playwright
1 4 (13.33%) WebdriverIO
2 2 (6.67%) .NET
2 2 (6.67%) Apollo GraphQL
2 2 (6.67%) GraphQL
2 2 (6.67%) React
2 2 (6.67%) RESTful
2 2 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
2 2 (6.67%) SAP PI
3 1 (3.33%) Spring
3 1 (3.33%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) DevOps
1 17 (56.67%) Test Automation
2 14 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
3 12 (40.00%) Validation
4 11 (36.67%) Test Scripting
5 10 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 10 (33.33%) Performance Testing
6 9 (30.00%) Agile
7 8 (26.67%) Data Migration
7 8 (26.67%) Migration
8 7 (23.33%) Analytical Thinking
8 7 (23.33%) Defect Management
8 7 (23.33%) High Availability
8 7 (23.33%) Load Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Risk Analysis
8 7 (23.33%) Software Testing
8 7 (23.33%) Verification and Validation
9 6 (20.00%) Logistics
9 6 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 7 (23.33%) C#
2 7 (23.33%) Python
3 4 (13.33%) VB
4 1 (3.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) AWS Certification
1 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) QA
2 2 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 2 (6.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.67%) WCAG
Vendors
1 10 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (6.67%) SAP
3 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (3.33%) Conga
3 1 (3.33%) Ericsson
3 1 (3.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
3 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (3.33%) Snow