HP UFT Contracts in the UK excluding London

HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring HP UFT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP UFT over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 397 429
Rank change year-on-year +67 +32 +59
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 9 2 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.070% 0.010% 0.075%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.52% 0.088% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 18
10th Percentile £303 - £389
25th Percentile £364 - £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £540 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.75% +23.43% -17.88%
75th Percentile - - £602
90th Percentile £556 - £665
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +8.00% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

HP UFT falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,725 2,267 3,383
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 13.48% 10.92% 14.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,140 1,468 2,388
10th Percentile £325 £350 £350
25th Percentile £402 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -
75th Percentile £556 £588 £600
90th Percentile £638 £675 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 170 181
10th Percentile £46.50 £40.85 £45.00
25th Percentile £52.18 £55.00 £52.38
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £83.28 £85.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing HP UFT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for HP UFT in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing HP UFT in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for HP UFT in the UK excluding London

HP UFT
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP UFT in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP UFT in the UK excluding London

HP UFT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP UFT in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for HP UFT in the UK excluding London

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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 HP UFT within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 - 6 £520 - 2
Yorkshire - 4 £520 -
East Midlands - 2 £326 -
Midlands - 2 £326 -
North West - 2 £335 - 2
Scotland - 1 - -
HP UFT
UK

HP UFT
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 7 (77.78%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) GitHub
2 1 (11.11%) Apigee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (44.44%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Gradle
1 8 (88.89%) IntelliJ
1 8 (88.89%) Jenkins
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
1 8 (88.89%) JUnit
1 8 (88.89%) Maven
1 8 (88.89%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) CA Release Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
2 4 (44.44%) Git
2 4 (44.44%) NetBeans
2 4 (44.44%) Subversion
3 1 (11.11%) GitLab
3 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (11.11%) Banking
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Java Developer
1 3 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (44.44%) Hibernate
1 4 (44.44%) J2EE
1 4 (44.44%) Kafka
1 4 (44.44%) Spring
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Boot
1 4 (44.44%) Spring Integration
1 4 (44.44%) Spring MVC
1 4 (44.44%) Web Services
2 3 (33.33%) Ajax
2 3 (33.33%) AngularJS
2 3 (33.33%) Bootstrap
2 3 (33.33%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) HTML
2 3 (33.33%) HTML5
2 3 (33.33%) jQuery
2 3 (33.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Structures
2 3 (33.33%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) API Development
2 4 (44.44%) BDD
2 4 (44.44%) Case Management
2 4 (44.44%) Code Coverage
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Delivery
2 4 (44.44%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (44.44%) Deployment Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Document Management
2 4 (44.44%) Due Diligence
2 4 (44.44%) Exploratory Testing
2 4 (44.44%) MVC
2 4 (44.44%) Non-Functional Testing
2 4 (44.44%) QA Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
2 4 (44.44%) TDD
2 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
2 4 (44.44%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 3 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Progress Chef
1 4 (44.44%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (11.11%) Splunk