TestRail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gurock TestRail
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for TestRail skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TestRail over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 420 481
Rank change year-on-year +67 +61 -50
Contract jobs citing TestRail 43 27 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.12% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.94% 0.82% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 25 29
10th Percentile £350 £434 £313
25th Percentile £463 £500 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £589 £626 £547
90th Percentile £610 £717 £584
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £495
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.06% +32.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

TestRail is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,211 3,304 4,560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.79% 14.08% 15.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 2,338 3,177
10th Percentile £350 £350 £361
25th Percentile £413 £420 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.42%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 175 102
10th Percentile £40.94 £46.27 £38.29
25th Percentile £55.25 £52.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +22.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £80.70 £78.00 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +18.27% +15.56%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for TestRail 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 TestRail in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TestRail in the UK excluding London

TestRail
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail 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 TestRail within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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 +45 37 £550 +1.85% 7
Midlands +35 3 £400 -17.95%
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
West Midlands +21 1 £525 +7.69%
South West +9 1 £360 -48.57% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
East of England - 1 £641 -
North of England - 1 - -
TestRail
UK

TestRail
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 (23.26%) Apache
1 10 (23.26%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (6.98%) Confluence
3 1 (2.33%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (23.26%) BGP
1 10 (23.26%) Ethernet VPN
1 10 (23.26%) MPLS
1 10 (23.26%) Radio Access Network
1 10 (23.26%) VPN
2 3 (6.98%) TCP/IP
3 1 (2.33%) NFC
3 1 (2.33%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.26%) MongoDB
1 10 (23.26%) NoSQL
1 10 (23.26%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (39.53%) JIRA
2 10 (23.26%) GitLab
2 10 (23.26%) Robot Framework
3 5 (11.63%) Selenium
4 1 (2.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.33%) Eclipse
4 1 (2.33%) Git
4 1 (2.33%) GoogleTest
4 1 (2.33%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.33%) JMeter
4 1 (2.33%) Postman
4 1 (2.33%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.33%) Valgrind
4 1 (2.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 7 (16.28%) Social Skills
2 3 (6.98%) Automotive
3 1 (2.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Finance
3 1 (2.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (58.14%) Analyst
1 25 (58.14%) Test Analyst
2 20 (46.51%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 13 (30.23%) Test Engineer
4 9 (20.93%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Software Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Software Test Analyst
5 3 (6.98%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (6.98%) Systems Test Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Lead
6 2 (4.65%) Test Leader
6 2 (4.65%) Tester
6 2 (4.65%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Unix Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) Administrator
7 1 (2.33%) Developer
7 1 (2.33%) Senior
7 1 (2.33%) Senior Embedded Engineer
7 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 1 (2.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (27.91%) REST
2 10 (23.26%) NETCONF
2 10 (23.26%) RESTCONF
2 10 (23.26%) SOAP
2 10 (23.26%) YANG
3 1 (2.33%) .NET
3 1 (2.33%) CSS
3 1 (2.33%) HTML
3 1 (2.33%) JSON
3 1 (2.33%) Playwright
3 1 (2.33%) Web Services
3 1 (2.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (2.33%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 4 (9.30%) Linux
2 3 (6.98%) Unix
3 1 (2.33%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (2.33%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (86.05%) Test Automation
2 36 (83.72%) Agile
3 22 (51.16%) Continuous Integration
3 22 (51.16%) Test Management
4 14 (32.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 14 (32.56%) Scrum
5 13 (30.23%) Requirements Analysis
6 11 (25.58%) Unit Testing
7 10 (23.26%) CI/CD
7 10 (23.26%) Containerisation
7 10 (23.26%) Integration Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Performance Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Regression Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Security Testing
7 10 (23.26%) Workflow
8 4 (9.30%) SDLC
8 4 (9.30%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.98%) Exploratory Testing
9 3 (6.98%) Functional Testing
9 3 (6.98%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (37.21%) SQL
2 11 (25.58%) Python
3 3 (6.98%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.65%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.33%) C#
5 1 (2.33%) C++
5 1 (2.33%) Java
5 1 (2.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (62.79%) ISTQB
2 25 (58.14%) Security Cleared
3 24 (55.81%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 21 (48.84%) DV Cleared
5 4 (9.30%) Degree
5 4 (9.30%) Master's Degree
5 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
6 3 (6.98%) HNC
7 1 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) QA
System Software
1 10 (23.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (6.98%) Oracle
2 1 (2.33%) Google
2 1 (2.33%) ServiceNow