End-to-End Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited End-to-End 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 261 279 305
Rank change year-on-year +18 +26 -45
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 75 121 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.59% 0.58% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.69% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 90 122
10th Percentile £350 £349 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £575 £617 £574
90th Percentile £628 £694 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £26.03 -
UK median hourly rate - £26.03 £57.00
% change year-on-year - -54.33% +62.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 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%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End 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 End-to-End 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
North of England +16 28 £475 -5.00% 32
North West +13 20 £500 - 24
South East +29 19 £500 +5.26% 26
Scotland -3 11 £450 +12.50% 13
Midlands +14 9 £450 +6.76% 13
West Midlands +17 7 £425 -43.33% 9
Yorkshire +9 7 £450 +3.69% 6
East of England +33 5 £910 +114.12% 5
South West +45 4 £525 +13.51% 9
East Midlands -1 2 £450 +12.50% 3
North East 0 1 £475 +20.25% 2
End-to-End Testing
UK

End-to-End 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:

Application Platforms
1 9 (12.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) CMS
2 2 (2.67%) Headless CMS
3 1 (1.33%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle Smart View
3 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.67%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.33%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 11 (14.67%) AWS
2 7 (9.33%) Azure
3 5 (6.67%) SaaS
4 4 (5.33%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (5.33%) GitHub
5 3 (4.00%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Data Factory
6 2 (2.67%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.67%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 2 (2.67%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.67%) Firebase
6 2 (2.67%) Serverless
7 1 (1.33%) Amazon Cognito
7 1 (1.33%) AWS CodePipeline
7 1 (1.33%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.33%) 3GPP
1 1 (1.33%) 4G
1 1 (1.33%) 5G
1 1 (1.33%) LTE
1 1 (1.33%) MIMO
1 1 (1.33%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (4.00%) Power Query
2 3 (4.00%) Siebel EIM
3 2 (2.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.67%) MySQL
3 2 (2.67%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.33%) Amazon Aurora
4 1 (1.33%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.33%) DB2
4 1 (1.33%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.33%) Power BI
4 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (28.00%) JIRA
2 13 (17.33%) Selenium
3 9 (12.00%) Postman
4 7 (9.33%) JMeter
5 5 (6.67%) TestRail
6 4 (5.33%) Cypress.io
6 4 (5.33%) Jenkins
6 4 (5.33%) LoadRunner
7 3 (4.00%) Git
7 3 (4.00%) SpecFlow
7 3 (4.00%) Zephyr
8 2 (2.67%) Bitbucket
8 2 (2.67%) REST Assured
8 2 (2.67%) SoapUI
9 1 (1.33%) GitLab
9 1 (1.33%) Storybook
9 1 (1.33%) TestDirector
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 24 (32.00%) Finance
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (18.67%) Public Sector
4 8 (10.67%) Banking
5 3 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.67%) Electronics
6 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.67%) Marketing
6 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (2.67%) Retail
6 2 (2.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.33%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 12 (16.00%) Tester
2 10 (13.33%) Developer
3 9 (12.00%) QA Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Lead
4 8 (10.67%) Senior
4 8 (10.67%) Test Manager
5 7 (9.33%) Test Leader
6 6 (8.00%) Analyst
6 6 (8.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.33%) Senior QA Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Software Tester
8 3 (4.00%) Automation Test Lead
8 3 (4.00%) Business Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Full-Stack Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Tester
8 3 (4.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.67%) Playwright
1 5 (6.67%) React
1 5 (6.67%) Web Services
2 4 (5.33%) CSS
2 4 (5.33%) Middleware
2 4 (5.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 4 (5.33%) SOAP
3 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
3 3 (4.00%) JMS
3 3 (4.00%) Node.js
3 3 (4.00%) PySpark
3 3 (4.00%) REST
3 3 (4.00%) Vue
4 2 (2.67%) .NET
4 2 (2.67%) .NET Core
4 2 (2.67%) JSON
4 2 (2.67%) Kafka
4 2 (2.67%) Next.js
4 2 (2.67%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.67%) Vitest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (2.67%) EPoS
3 2 (2.67%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (2.67%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (2.67%) Video\Live Streaming
4 1 (1.33%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.33%) Culture of Ownership
4 1 (1.33%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.33%) e-Learning
4 1 (1.33%) NHS
4 1 (1.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.33%) Linux
2 1 (1.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (41.33%) Test Automation
2 28 (37.33%) Agile
3 25 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 19 (25.33%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (22.67%) DevOps
5 17 (22.67%) Integration Testing
5 17 (22.67%) Validation
6 16 (21.33%) CI/CD
7 14 (18.67%) Migration
8 13 (17.33%) Manual Testing
9 12 (16.00%) Performance Testing
9 12 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (16.00%) System Integration Testing
10 11 (14.67%) User Acceptance Testing
11 10 (13.33%) User Stories
12 9 (12.00%) Data Validation
12 9 (12.00%) Test Management
13 8 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
13 8 (10.67%) SDLC
13 8 (10.67%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (33.33%) SQL
2 10 (13.33%) Java
3 9 (12.00%) JavaScript
4 4 (5.33%) PL/SQL
4 4 (5.33%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.00%) VBA
6 2 (2.67%) C#
7 1 (1.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) ISTQB
2 8 (10.67%) SC Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Degree
4 3 (4.00%) CIMA
4 3 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.33%) CBAP
6 1 (1.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (30.67%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.67%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.67%) ISO 31000
2 2 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.67%) Ansible
1 2 (2.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.33%) Grafana
2 1 (1.33%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.00%) Oracle
2 8 (10.67%) SAP
3 7 (9.33%) ServiceNow
4 3 (4.00%) Databricks
4 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.00%) Siebel
5 2 (2.67%) HP
5 2 (2.67%) Nintex
5 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.33%) Ariba
6 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.33%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.33%) Dynatrace
6 1 (1.33%) Huawei
6 1 (1.33%) IBM
6 1 (1.33%) Informatica
6 1 (1.33%) Snow
6 1 (1.33%) StreamSets