Agile Testing Contracts

Agile Testing
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 701 814
Rank change year-on-year +132 +113 -155
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 9 15 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.024% 0.028% 0.066%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 34
10th Percentile £491 £363 £315
25th Percentile £496 £375 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £450 £493
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -8.63% +23.13%
75th Percentile £540 £531 £517
90th Percentile £551 £563 £568
UK excluding London median daily rate £539 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +19.67% -9.09% +41.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Agile 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,480 53,073 80,381
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.37% 89.85% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,166 36,804 56,457
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,447 1,751 1,910
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £36.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +44.00% +2.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.98%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK

Agile Testing
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
England +102 7 £488 +11.54% 5
London +116 5 £488 -7.05%
UK excluding London +51 4 £539 +19.67% 6
Work from Home +126 3 - - 1
Scotland +39 2 £539 +7.70% 1
South East +19 1 - - 1
North of England - 1 - - 1
North West - 1 - - 1

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Miro
1 1 (11.11%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
2 1 (11.11%) GitLab
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) JMeter
2 1 (11.11%) Postman
2 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Lead
2 2 (22.22%) Test Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Automation Tester
3 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) GCP Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) QA Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) QA Leader
3 1 (11.11%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) ADO
1 1 (11.11%) Kafka
1 1 (11.11%) Middleware
1 1 (11.11%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Equities
1 2 (22.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Test Management
3 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
4 4 (44.44%) Test Planning
4 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 4 (44.44%) Test Strategy
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (33.33%) DevOps
5 3 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Project Management
5 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (22.22%) Component Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (22.22%) Decision-Making
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Assurance
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) C++
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) ISEB
2 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 2 (22.22%) ISEB Practitioner
4 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) PMO
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center