Smoke Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity 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 Smoke Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smoke Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 374 449 496
Rank change year-on-year +75 +47 -56
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 8 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.013% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.047% 0.014% 0.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 7
10th Percentile £311 £501 £385
25th Percentile £463 £503 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +7.89% +64.93%
75th Percentile £697 £528 £488
90th Percentile £738 £534 -
UK median daily rate £538 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -10.42% +26.32% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Smoke 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 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Smoke Testing in the UK excluding London

Smoke Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Smoke Testing in the UK excluding London

Smoke Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Smoke Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Smoke Testing in the UK excluding London

Smoke Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Smoke Testing in the UK excluding London

Smoke 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 Smoke Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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
Scotland +50 4 £725 +38.10%
South West - 2 £513 - 1
North West - 1 £160 - 1
East of England - 1 - -
North of England - 1 £160 - 1
Smoke Testing
UK

Smoke 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Katalon Studio
General
1 4 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) UAT Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Power Platform Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Onboarding
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Defect Management
3 3 (37.50%) Order to Cash
3 3 (37.50%) Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (37.50%) RBAC
3 3 (37.50%) Record to Report
4 2 (25.00%) Matrix Management
4 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
5 1 (12.50%) Change Advisory Board
5 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
5 1 (12.50%) Data Transformation
5 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (12.50%) Release Management
5 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Blue Prism
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) Oracle