Compatibility Testing Contracts

Compatibility Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Compatibility Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Compatibility Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 574 702
Rank change year-on-year +72 +128 +116
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 18 8 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.018% 0.027%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.021% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 3 15
10th Percentile £345 £334 -
25th Percentile £384 £366 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £438 £490
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -10.71% +2.08%
75th Percentile £491 £451 £675
90th Percentile £504 £454 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £325 £400
% change year-on-year +48.62% -18.75% -11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Compatibility Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,594 37,597 53,655
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.84% 86.31% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,149 24,227 37,238
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £743 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,443 1,746
10th Percentile £14.41 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%
75th Percentile £60.38 £59.98 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
% change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Compatibility Testing in the UK

Compatibility Testing
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +62 11 £450 +2.86% 3
Work from Home +47 9 £422 -3.66% 1
London +42 6 £450 +1.06% 1
UK excluding London +62 4 £483 +48.62% 2
East of England - 2 £438 -
Midlands - 2 £483 -
West Midlands - 2 £483 -

Compatibility 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 1 (5.56%) CMS
1 1 (5.56%) Confluence
1 1 (5.56%) Drupal
1 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 12 (66.67%) Azure
2 9 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (44.44%) OneDrive
4 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
4 1 (5.56%) Sauce Labs
Development Applications
1 10 (55.56%) MSI
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) Selenium
3 2 (11.11%) Git
3 2 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JIRA
4 1 (5.56%) Postman
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Back Office
3 1 (5.56%) Front Office
3 1 (5.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Applications Packager
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Migration Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) QA Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) QA Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) QA Tester
4 1 (5.56%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Tester
4 1 (5.56%) UAT Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) UI Developer
4 1 (5.56%) Web Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 2 (11.11%) CSS
1 2 (11.11%) DOM
1 2 (11.11%) Gherkin
1 2 (11.11%) Next.js
1 2 (11.11%) React
1 2 (11.11%) Vue
2 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 1 (5.56%) AIX
2 1 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Unix
2 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Migration
2 10 (55.56%) Application Packaging
3 9 (50.00%) Project Management
4 8 (44.44%) Microservices
4 8 (44.44%) Programme Management
5 7 (38.89%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 3 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 3 (16.67%) User Stories
7 2 (11.11%) Agile
7 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 2 (11.11%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
7 2 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Optimisation
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 2 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (11.11%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) C#
1 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (11.11%) TypeScript
3 1 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) SC Cleared
1 10 (55.56%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (16.67%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix
2 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 1 (5.56%) Optimizely
3 1 (5.56%) Perfecto Mobile
3 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 1 (5.56%) Sitecore