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

End-to-End Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 298 255
Rank change year-on-year +27 -43 +23
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 120 159 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.58% 0.66% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.74% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 122 213
10th Percentile £348 £363 £357
25th Percentile £400 £465 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £623 £574 £525
90th Percentile £694 £650 £574
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate £26.03 - £49.50
75th Percentile £29.38 - £51.88
90th Percentile £35.38 - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £57.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -54.33% +62.86% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,514 21,548 27,506
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.76% 89.51% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,486 14,951 19,202
10th Percentile £248 £255 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,030 1,307 1,367
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.18 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.17% +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 28 April 2024.

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 28 April 2024. 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
South East +19 35 £500 - 7
North of England +3 32 £500 -11.50% 8
Scotland +51 26 £400 -3.61% 6
North West +38 24 £500 -2.44% 7
Midlands +20 17 £422 -23.36% 9
East Midlands +22 13 £400 -44.56% 4
Yorkshire +8 7 £436 -30.24% 1
South West -10 5 £463 -15.91% 6
West Midlands +17 4 £750 +35.14% 5
Northern Ireland +10 3 £520 - 1
East of England 0 2 £425 -42.80% 10
North East -8 1 £395 -30.09%
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 20 (16.67%) Confluence
2 5 (4.17%) Apache
2 5 (4.17%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.50%) CMS
3 3 (2.50%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.83%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 11 (9.17%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.33%) SAP WM
3 3 (2.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.67%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.83%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.83%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 25 (20.83%) AWS
2 19 (15.83%) Azure
3 13 (10.83%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (7.50%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (7.50%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (7.50%) Amazon S3
5 8 (6.67%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (6.67%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (6.67%) Route 53
5 8 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 5 (4.17%) GCP
7 4 (3.33%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (2.50%) Apigee
8 3 (2.50%) Datadog
9 2 (1.67%) PaaS
10 1 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.83%) npm
10 1 (0.83%) SaaS
10 1 (0.83%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.17%) SSL
3 3 (2.50%) 5G
4 1 (0.83%) DNS
4 1 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.67%) Elasticsearch
2 7 (5.83%) Relational Database
3 3 (2.50%) Amazon Redshift
3 3 (2.50%) Apache Cassandra
3 3 (2.50%) NoSQL
3 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.83%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (0.83%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.83%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.83%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 29 (24.17%) JIRA
2 24 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 17 (14.17%) Git
4 14 (11.67%) Cucumber
5 11 (9.17%) Postman
6 10 (8.33%) GitLab
6 10 (8.33%) JUnit
7 9 (7.50%) Selenium
7 9 (7.50%) webpack
8 8 (6.67%) Bitbucket
9 7 (5.83%) Maven
10 5 (4.17%) IntelliJ
11 4 (3.33%) Artifactory
12 3 (2.50%) gulp
12 3 (2.50%) Visual Studio
13 2 (1.67%) JMeter
13 2 (1.67%) NUnit
13 2 (1.67%) REST Assured
13 2 (1.67%) TestRail
13 2 (1.67%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 30 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (10.83%) Finance
3 12 (10.00%) Marketing
4 9 (7.50%) Automotive
5 6 (5.00%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.17%) Banking
6 5 (4.17%) Public Sector
7 4 (3.33%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.50%) Tech for Good
9 2 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.67%) Military
9 2 (1.67%) Retail
10 1 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.83%) Electronics
10 1 (0.83%) Games
10 1 (0.83%) German Language
10 1 (0.83%) Legal
10 1 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (21.67%) Developer
2 19 (15.83%) Java Developer
3 14 (11.67%) Consultant
4 11 (9.17%) Analyst
4 11 (9.17%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 11 (9.17%) Test Analyst
5 10 (8.33%) Senior
5 10 (8.33%) Test Engineer
5 10 (8.33%) Test Manager
6 9 (7.50%) Lead
7 8 (6.67%) Tester
8 7 (5.83%) Automation Tester
8 7 (5.83%) Senior Developer
9 6 (5.00%) Senior Java Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Backend Developer
10 5 (4.17%) Coordinator
11 4 (3.33%) ERP Analyst
11 4 (3.33%) Software Development Engineer
11 4 (3.33%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.33%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.67%) Kafka
2 18 (15.00%) RESTful
3 17 (14.17%) Spring
4 14 (11.67%) Spring Boot
5 12 (10.00%) Node.js
6 11 (9.17%) J2EE
6 11 (9.17%) React
6 11 (9.17%) REST
7 10 (8.33%) .NET
7 10 (8.33%) Apache Camel
8 9 (7.50%) Redux
9 8 (6.67%) Express.js
10 5 (4.17%) CSS
10 5 (4.17%) Elastic Stack
10 5 (4.17%) OpenTracing
10 5 (4.17%) XML
11 4 (3.33%) SOAP
12 3 (2.50%) ADO
12 3 (2.50%) ASP.NET
12 3 (2.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.17%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.67%) Data Structures
3 7 (5.83%) Distributed Systems
4 6 (5.00%) Public Cloud
5 4 (3.33%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 3 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.50%) Product Ownership
7 2 (1.67%) Equities
7 2 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.67%) PKI
8 1 (0.83%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.83%) IoT
8 1 (0.83%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.83%) NHS
8 1 (0.83%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.83%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 14 (11.67%) Linux
2 6 (5.00%) Unix
2 6 (5.00%) Windows
3 4 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
4 3 (2.50%) Android
4 3 (2.50%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.67%) VMS
5 2 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (40.83%) Agile
2 44 (36.67%) Test Automation
3 40 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 21 (17.50%) Continuous Integration
5 20 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 20 (16.67%) System Testing
6 19 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (14.17%) CI/CD
7 17 (14.17%) Test Strategy
8 16 (13.33%) Migration
8 16 (13.33%) Project Management
8 16 (13.33%) Software Testing
8 16 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
9 15 (12.50%) DevOps
10 14 (11.67%) Continuous Improvement
10 14 (11.67%) CRM
10 14 (11.67%) Data Migration
11 13 (10.83%) Integration Testing
12 12 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
12 12 (10.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 32 (26.67%) Java
2 23 (19.17%) SQL
3 13 (10.83%) Python
4 9 (7.50%) JavaScript
5 8 (6.67%) Kotlin
5 8 (6.67%) Scala
6 7 (5.83%) C#
6 7 (5.83%) C++
7 6 (5.00%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.17%) TypeScript
9 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
10 3 (2.50%) Bash
10 3 (2.50%) C
10 3 (2.50%) Perl
10 3 (2.50%) Ruby
11 2 (1.67%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.83%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 15 (12.50%) Degree
2 15 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 9 (7.50%) ISTQB
4 3 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.67%) HNC
5 2 (1.67%) ISEB
5 2 (1.67%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (1.67%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (0.83%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (21.67%) QA
2 6 (5.00%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.17%) PMO
4 3 (2.50%) Accessibility
5 2 (1.67%) Def Stans
System Software
1 16 (13.33%) Docker
2 4 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.33%) VirtualBox
3 2 (1.67%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.83%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.00%) Ansible
3 5 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 5 (4.17%) Zipkin
4 4 (3.33%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (3.33%) Kibana
5 3 (2.50%) Nagios
5 3 (2.50%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.50%) Puppet
5 3 (2.50%) Terraform
6 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 15 (12.50%) SAP
2 13 (10.83%) Oracle
3 6 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.50%) Google
4 3 (2.50%) HP
4 3 (2.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.50%) New Relic
4 3 (2.50%) Splunk
5 2 (1.67%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.83%) Adobe
6 1 (0.83%) Cadence
6 1 (0.83%) Citrix
6 1 (0.83%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.83%) Cognos
6 1 (0.83%) Confluent
6 1 (0.83%) IBM
6 1 (0.83%) Informatica
6 1 (0.83%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.83%) VMware