eggPlant Contract Job Trends

TestPlant eggPlant
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring eggPlant skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 657 557 569
Rank change year-on-year -100 +12 +62
Contract jobs citing eggPlant 14 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.026% 0.006% 0.010%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.22% 0.040% 0.079%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 1 1
10th Percentile £313 - -
25th Percentile £400 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £360 £300
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +20.00% -45.45%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile £625 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 - -

All Development Application Skills
UK

eggPlant falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 6,254 5,013 5,075
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.52% 15.22% 13.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,005 3,372 3,242
10th Percentile £354 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 112 175
10th Percentile £25.54 £31.28 £28.09
25th Percentile £51.27 £50.75 £51.13
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
75th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £75.30 £87.05 £73.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00

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Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing eggPlant relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

eggPlant job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing eggPlant.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing eggPlant

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing eggPlant over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for eggPlant in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing eggPlant.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing eggPlant

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Top 8 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing eggPlant within the UK over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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 -129 14 £500 +38.89% 6
London -80 11 £500 +38.89% 2
UK excluding London - 3 £400 - 5
Work from Home - 2 £550 -
East of England - 1 - - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 2
South East - 1 £450 - 1
North of England - 1 £350 - 2

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) SharePoint
2 7 (50.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
1 3 (21.43%) GitHub
1 3 (21.43%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (42.86%) Tableau
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
3 1 (7.14%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 7 (50.00%) JMeter
1 7 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 5 (35.71%) Selenium
2 5 (35.71%) SoapUI
2 5 (35.71%) SonarQube
3 4 (28.57%) SOAtest
4 3 (21.43%) Git
4 3 (21.43%) HP UFT
4 3 (21.43%) Jenkins
4 3 (21.43%) SilkTest
5 2 (14.29%) Gatling
5 2 (14.29%) Rational Functional Tester
6 1 (7.14%) Artifactory
General
1 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Banking
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Aerospace
3 1 (7.14%) Financial Institution
3 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Test Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) Programme Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Programme Test Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Programme Manager
3 3 (21.43%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior
4 2 (14.29%) IT Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Performance Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Portfolio Test Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Product Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (64.29%) Web Services
2 8 (57.14%) .NET
2 8 (57.14%) XML
3 7 (50.00%) Kafka
3 7 (50.00%) SOAP
4 5 (35.71%) HTML
4 5 (35.71%) XBRL
5 4 (28.57%) Middleware
6 2 (14.29%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (7.14%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Linux
1 8 (57.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 12 (85.71%) Test Strategy
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 8 (57.14%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (50.00%) SOA
5 6 (42.86%) Software Testing
6 5 (35.71%) API Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Mentoring
6 5 (35.71%) Performance Testing
6 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (35.71%) Waterfall
7 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (28.57%) Defect Management
7 4 (28.57%) Functional Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 4 (28.57%) SDLC
7 4 (28.57%) Security Testing
7 4 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (28.57%) Test Management
7 4 (28.57%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (64.29%) Java
1 9 (64.29%) SQL
2 8 (57.14%) Python
3 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (35.71%) VB.NET
5 1 (7.14%) Korn
5 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) SC Cleared
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) ISTQB
3 4 (28.57%) Degree
3 4 (28.57%) ISEB
4 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (7.14%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (7.14%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) Actionable Recommendations
1 2 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (35.71%) HP Fortify
2 4 (28.57%) Control-M
3 3 (21.43%) Kubernetes
4 2 (14.29%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Oracle
2 8 (57.14%) SAP
3 7 (50.00%) IBM
4 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
4 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (14.29%) New Relic
4 2 (14.29%) Splunk
5 1 (7.14%) Databricks
5 1 (7.14%) Parasoft
5 1 (7.14%) SOASTA