Compatibility Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Compatibility Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Compatibility Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 394 455
Rank change year-on-year +62 +61 +40
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 4 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.024% 0.029%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.028% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £390 - -
25th Percentile £450 £313 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +48.62% -18.75% -11.11%
75th Percentile £497 £338 £415
90th Percentile £521 - £430
UK median daily rate £467 £438 £490
% change year-on-year +6.63% -10.71% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Compatibility 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Compatibility Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK excluding London

Compatibility Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Midlands - 2 £483 -
West Midlands - 2 £483 -
East of England - 2 £438 -
Compatibility Testing
UK

Compatibility Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
1 1 (25.00%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (75.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) MSI
3 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Packager
1 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) AIX
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Unix
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Perfecto Mobile