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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 263 275 298
Rank change year-on-year +12 +23 -32
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 81 115 143
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.57% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.67% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 85 108
10th Percentile £350 £343 £363
25th Percentile £400 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £475 £540
Median % change year-on-year +2.95% -12.04% +13.68%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £575
90th Percentile £645 £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 £40.00 £26.03 £57.00
% change year-on-year +53.67% -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 11,649 17,108 20,638
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.51% 84.43% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,262 10,200 14,248
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.04%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 838 2,053 1,261
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.31 £10.75
25th Percentile £17.26 £15.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.66 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.82 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 16 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 16 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 +24 31 £475 -5.00% 31
South East +37 24 £500 +8.11% 49
North West +13 23 £500 - 24
Midlands +9 10 £450 +12.50% 15
West Midlands +17 8 £425 - 10
Yorkshire +15 7 £450 +3.69% 4
Scotland -15 7 £482 +7.11% 8
South West +44 6 £475 - 14
East of England +28 4 £910 +142.67% 7
East Midlands -2 2 £450 +12.50% 5
North East -1 1 £475 +20.25% 3
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 (12.35%) Confluence
2 2 (2.47%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.70%) Oracle Smart View
2 1 (1.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (2.47%) Payment Gateway
1 2 (2.47%) SAP FI
2 1 (1.23%) SAP APO
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.28%) AWS
2 10 (12.35%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) GitHub
4 5 (6.17%) SaaS
5 4 (4.94%) Amazon S3
5 4 (4.94%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (4.94%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (4.94%) Serverless
6 3 (3.70%) Firebase
6 3 (3.70%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.70%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.47%) Amazon Cognito
7 2 (2.47%) AWS CodeBuild
7 2 (2.47%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Data Factory
7 2 (2.47%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 2 (2.47%) BrowserStack
7 2 (2.47%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.47%) CloudFront
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.23%) LAN
1 1 (1.23%) WAN
1 1 (1.23%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.94%) NoSQL
1 4 (4.94%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (4.94%) Siebel EIM
2 3 (3.70%) Power Query
3 2 (2.47%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (2.47%) Azure SQL Database
3 2 (2.47%) MySQL
3 2 (2.47%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.23%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (1.23%) Apache Hive
4 1 (1.23%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.23%) Power BI
4 1 (1.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (29.63%) JIRA
2 11 (13.58%) Selenium
3 9 (11.11%) Postman
4 7 (8.64%) Cypress.io
5 6 (7.41%) JMeter
5 6 (7.41%) TestRail
6 5 (6.17%) Zephyr
7 4 (4.94%) LoadRunner
8 3 (3.70%) Git
8 3 (3.70%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.70%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.47%) REST Assured
9 2 (2.47%) SoapUI
9 2 (2.47%) Storybook
10 1 (1.23%) Bitbucket
10 1 (1.23%) GitLab
10 1 (1.23%) MLflow
General
1 44 (54.32%) Social Skills
2 26 (32.10%) Finance
3 16 (19.75%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (18.52%) Public Sector
5 8 (9.88%) Banking
6 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.47%) Electronics
7 2 (2.47%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.47%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.47%) Marketing
7 2 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.47%) Retail
8 1 (1.23%) Back Office
8 1 (1.23%) Legal
Job Titles
1 11 (13.58%) Developer
1 11 (13.58%) Tester
2 9 (11.11%) Analyst
2 9 (11.11%) QA Engineer
2 9 (11.11%) Senior
3 8 (9.88%) Lead
3 8 (9.88%) Test Manager
4 6 (7.41%) Consultant
4 6 (7.41%) Test Leader
5 5 (6.17%) Test Analyst
6 4 (4.94%) React Developer
6 4 (4.94%) Senior QA Engineer
6 4 (4.94%) Senior Tester
6 4 (4.94%) Software Tester
6 4 (4.94%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.70%) Architect
7 3 (3.70%) Automation Test Lead
7 3 (3.70%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) SAP Consultant
7 3 (3.70%) Siebel Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) React
2 6 (7.41%) Playwright
2 6 (7.41%) Web Services
3 4 (4.94%) GraphQL
3 4 (4.94%) JMS
3 4 (4.94%) Oracle Fusion
3 4 (4.94%) RESTful
3 4 (4.94%) SOAP
4 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.70%) CSS
4 3 (3.70%) Node.js
4 3 (3.70%) PySpark
4 3 (3.70%) Vue
5 2 (2.47%) .NET
5 2 (2.47%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.47%) Apollo GraphQL
5 2 (2.47%) AWS CDK
5 2 (2.47%) Jest
5 2 (2.47%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.47%) Tailwind CSS
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.17%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.94%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.70%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.70%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.70%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) EPoS
4 2 (2.47%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.47%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 2 (2.47%) Video\Live Streaming
5 1 (1.23%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.23%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.23%) NHS
5 1 (1.23%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.23%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.94%) Linux
2 1 (1.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (40.74%) Test Automation
2 29 (35.80%) Agile
3 25 (30.86%) Test Strategy
4 23 (28.40%) DevOps
4 23 (28.40%) Problem-Solving
5 20 (24.69%) CI/CD
6 17 (20.99%) Validation
7 16 (19.75%) Integration Testing
8 15 (18.52%) Manual Testing
8 15 (18.52%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (17.28%) Migration
9 14 (17.28%) Performance Testing
10 13 (16.05%) System Integration Testing
11 12 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (14.81%) Test Scripting
12 11 (13.58%) User Stories
13 10 (12.35%) Test Management
14 9 (11.11%) Change Management
14 9 (11.11%) Data Validation
14 9 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 26 (32.10%) SQL
2 10 (12.35%) JavaScript
3 7 (8.64%) Java
3 7 (8.64%) Python
4 4 (4.94%) PL/SQL
5 3 (3.70%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.70%) VBA
6 2 (2.47%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 12 (14.81%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.11%) ISTQB
4 5 (6.17%) Degree
5 3 (3.70%) AWS Certification
5 3 (3.70%) CIMA
5 3 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.23%) CBAP
7 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (30.86%) QA
2 2 (2.47%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.47%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.47%) ISO 22301
2 2 (2.47%) ISO 31000
2 2 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.47%) WCAG
3 1 (1.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.47%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.70%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.23%) Grafana
3 1 (1.23%) Graphite
Vendors
1 10 (12.35%) Oracle
2 8 (9.88%) SAP
3 6 (7.41%) ServiceNow
4 4 (4.94%) Siebel
5 3 (3.70%) Databricks
5 3 (3.70%) HP
5 3 (3.70%) Microsoft
5 3 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.47%) Nintex
7 1 (1.23%) Ariba
7 1 (1.23%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.23%) Cisco
7 1 (1.23%) Conga
7 1 (1.23%) Dynatrace
7 1 (1.23%) IBM
7 1 (1.23%) Informatica
7 1 (1.23%) Micro Focus
7 1 (1.23%) Progress
7 1 (1.23%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.23%) Snow