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 26 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 374 428
Rank change year-on-year +6 +54 +86
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.026% 0.022% 0.005%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.029% 0.027% 0.005%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £355 - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - -
75th Percentile £385 - -
90th Percentile £391 - -
UK median daily rate £383 £500 £700
% change year-on-year -23.50% -28.57% +27.27%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,683 15,019 19,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.09% 82.64% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,192 8,933 12,881
10th Percentile £238 £250 £260
25th Percentile £365 £388 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,406 1,421 1,224
10th Percentile £13.81 £13.64 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compatibility Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compatibility Testing

Compatibility Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compatibility Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Compatibility Testing

Compatibility Testing
DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South West +23 3 £383 -23.50% 2
East of England - 1 £350 -
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 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MSI
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Legal
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft