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 21 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 292 299 264
Rank change year-on-year +7 -35 -5
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 110 131 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.58% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.65% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 95 205
10th Percentile £319 £363 £346
25th Percentile £388 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £622 £579 £525
90th Percentile £694 £665 £556
UK median daily rate £520 £524 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% +4.80% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile - - £50.69
Median hourly rate £26.03 - £51.88
75th Percentile £29.38 - £53.06
90th Percentile £35.38 - £53.78
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £37.75
% change year-on-year -30.12% -1.32% -18.60%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 21 June 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 21 June 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 +25 41 £450 - 1
Scotland +62 22 £400 +5.26% 3
North of England -21 18 £588 +3.98% 8
East Midlands +13 14 £400 -46.16%
Midlands +13 14 £400 -33.33% 2
South West -5 13 £620 +27.86% 6
North West +13 9 £663 +32.50% 7
Yorkshire +1 8 £463 -26.00% 1
Northern Ireland -2 2 - -
North East -13 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 10 (9.09%) Confluence
2 7 (6.36%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.73%) CMS
3 3 (2.73%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.82%) Apache
5 1 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (7.27%) SAP ERP
1 8 (7.27%) SAP Payroll
2 4 (3.64%) SAP WM
3 3 (2.73%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.91%) Dynamics AX
Cloud Services
1 29 (26.36%) Azure
2 28 (25.45%) AWS
3 10 (9.09%) GCP
4 9 (8.18%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (8.18%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (8.18%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.27%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (7.27%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (7.27%) Route 53
5 8 (7.27%) SuccessFactors
5 8 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (2.73%) Apigee
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Service Bus
7 3 (2.73%) Azure Storage
7 3 (2.73%) Datadog
8 2 (1.82%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.27%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.55%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.27%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (7.27%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.73%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.73%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (2.73%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.91%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.91%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.91%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.91%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.91%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 21 (19.09%) JIRA
2 13 (11.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.09%) Git
4 9 (8.18%) GitLab
5 8 (7.27%) Selenium
5 8 (7.27%) webpack
6 6 (5.45%) Bitbucket
7 5 (4.55%) Maven
8 4 (3.64%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.64%) Cucumber
8 4 (3.64%) TestRail
9 3 (2.73%) gulp
9 3 (2.73%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.82%) JMeter
10 2 (1.82%) NUnit
10 2 (1.82%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.91%) Postman
11 1 (0.91%) SilkCentral
11 1 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 17 (15.45%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.00%) Automotive
2 11 (10.00%) Finance
3 7 (6.36%) Banking
4 5 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
4 5 (4.55%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.64%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.73%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (2.73%) Local Government
6 3 (2.73%) Tech for Good
7 1 (0.91%) Aviation
7 1 (0.91%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (0.91%) Games
7 1 (0.91%) German Language
7 1 (0.91%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (19.09%) Developer
2 14 (12.73%) Java Developer
3 13 (11.82%) Test Manager
4 12 (10.91%) Analyst
4 12 (10.91%) Test Analyst
5 10 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 9 (8.18%) Tester
7 8 (7.27%) Automation Tester
8 7 (6.36%) Lead
9 6 (5.45%) Backend Developer
9 6 (5.45%) SAP Subject Matter Expert
9 6 (5.45%) Subject Matter Expert
10 5 (4.55%) Consultant
10 5 (4.55%) Coordinator
11 4 (3.64%) Software Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Systems Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Systems Test Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Technical Leader
11 4 (3.64%) Test Coordinator
11 4 (3.64%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.27%) RESTful
2 14 (12.73%) Kafka
3 13 (11.82%) .NET
4 11 (10.00%) Node.js
5 10 (9.09%) Spring
5 10 (9.09%) Spring Boot
6 8 (7.27%) Express.js
6 8 (7.27%) React
6 8 (7.27%) Redux
7 7 (6.36%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.36%) OpenTracing
8 6 (5.45%) SOAP
9 4 (3.64%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.64%) XML
10 3 (2.73%) ASP.NET
10 3 (2.73%) ASP.NET MVC
10 3 (2.73%) CSS
10 3 (2.73%) HTML
10 3 (2.73%) OAuth
10 3 (2.73%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 12 (10.91%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.18%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.45%) Public Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Data Centre
4 3 (2.73%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.73%) Private Cloud
4 3 (2.73%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.82%) Equities
5 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.82%) PKI
5 2 (1.82%) Robotics
6 1 (0.91%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.91%) IoT
6 1 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) PlayStation
6 1 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) Taxonomies
6 1 (0.91%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.55%) Linux
2 8 (7.27%) Unix
3 7 (6.36%) Windows
4 4 (3.64%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (2.73%) Android
5 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.82%) VMS
6 2 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (41.82%) Test Automation
2 37 (33.64%) Agile
2 37 (33.64%) User Acceptance Testing
3 23 (20.91%) Project Management
4 19 (17.27%) Scenario Testing
5 18 (16.36%) Scrum
6 16 (14.55%) DevOps
6 16 (14.55%) Microservices
6 16 (14.55%) Test Strategy
7 15 (13.64%) CI/CD
7 15 (13.64%) SDLC
8 14 (12.73%) System Integration Testing
9 13 (11.82%) ERP
9 13 (11.82%) Software Testing
10 11 (10.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 11 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
10 11 (10.00%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (10.00%) Functional Testing
10 11 (10.00%) Integration Testing
10 11 (10.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 25 (22.73%) Java
2 18 (16.36%) SQL
3 11 (10.00%) Python
4 10 (9.09%) C#
4 10 (9.09%) Kotlin
4 10 (9.09%) Scala
5 7 (6.36%) C++
5 7 (6.36%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.64%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.64%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.73%) Bash
7 3 (2.73%) C
7 3 (2.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (2.73%) Perl
7 3 (2.73%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.73%) Ruby
8 1 (0.91%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 17 (15.45%) Degree
2 14 (12.73%) SC Cleared
2 14 (12.73%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.27%) CIPD
4 6 (5.45%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.64%) HNC
5 4 (3.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (3.64%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.82%) ISEB
6 2 (1.82%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (22.73%) QA
2 6 (5.45%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.55%) PMO
4 1 (0.91%) Accessibility
System Software
1 16 (14.55%) Docker
2 4 (3.64%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.64%) VirtualBox
3 3 (2.73%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.91%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 26 (23.64%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.36%) Prometheus
2 7 (6.36%) Zipkin
3 6 (5.45%) Ansible
4 4 (3.64%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (2.73%) Grafana
5 3 (2.73%) Nagios
5 3 (2.73%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.73%) Puppet
5 3 (2.73%) Terraform
Vendors
1 21 (19.09%) SAP
2 6 (5.45%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.45%) OpenText
2 6 (5.45%) Oracle
2 6 (5.45%) Splunk
3 5 (4.55%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.73%) Google
4 3 (2.73%) NEC
4 3 (2.73%) New Relic
5 2 (1.82%) HP
6 1 (0.91%) Ariba
6 1 (0.91%) Citrix
6 1 (0.91%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.91%) IBM
6 1 (0.91%) Informatica
6 1 (0.91%) Northgate
6 1 (0.91%) Sony
6 1 (0.91%) StreamSets
6 1 (0.91%) UiPath
6 1 (0.91%) VMware