Test Assurance Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 391 429 482
Rank change year-on-year +38 +53 -79
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 3 22 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.094% 0.082%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.11% 0.093%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 20
10th Percentile £416 £405 £327
25th Percentile £422 £461 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +0.52% +17.58%
75th Percentile £466 £600 £531
90th Percentile £479 £612 £600
UK median daily rate £430 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.16% +2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Assurance 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 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
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 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in the UK excluding London

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South East +13 2 £456 -3.95% 5
Midlands +26 1 £425 -29.17%
West Midlands - 1 £425 -
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
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 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Assurance Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Test Practitioner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
1 2 (66.67%) DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP ALM
1 1 (33.33%) vRealize
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) HP
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow
1 1 (33.33%) VMware