End-to-End Testing Contracts

End-to-End Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited End-to-End 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 335 301 361
Rank change year-on-year -34 +60 -33
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 191 309 396
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.71% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.82% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 217 270
10th Percentile £334 £350 £357
25th Percentile £401 £411 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £661
90th Percentile £674 £733 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -5.00% -9.09% +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 2
10th Percentile - - £53.00
25th Percentile - - £54.50
Median hourly rate - £26.03 £57.00
Median % change year-on-year - -54.33% +62.86%
75th Percentile - £29.38 £59.50
90th Percentile - £35.38 £61.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £26.03 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

End-to-End 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%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK

End-to-End Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing End-to-End 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 -22 149 £500 - 174
London -25 78 £525 +5.00% 99
UK excluding London +18 75 £475 -5.00% 102
Work from Home -19 65 £550 +10.00% 131
North of England +16 28 £475 -5.00% 32
North West +13 20 £500 - 24
South East +29 19 £500 +5.26% 26
Scotland -3 11 £450 +12.50% 13
Midlands +14 9 £450 +6.76% 13
West Midlands +17 7 £425 -43.33% 9
Yorkshire +9 7 £450 +3.69% 6
East of England +33 5 £910 +114.12% 5
South West +45 4 £525 +13.51% 9
East Midlands -1 2 £450 +12.50% 3
North East 0 1 £475 +20.25% 2

End-to-End 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 14 (7.33%) Confluence
2 6 (3.14%) CMS
3 5 (2.62%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.57%) Alfresco
4 3 (1.57%) Camunda
5 2 (1.05%) Apache
5 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.05%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
6 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.52%) IIS
6 1 (0.52%) WordPress
Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.57%) Oracle Smart View
3 2 (1.05%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (2.09%) SAP FI
1 4 (2.09%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.57%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (1.05%) Shopify
3 2 (1.05%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.52%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.52%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP CRM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.52%) SAP PLM
4 1 (0.52%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.52%) UltiPro
Cloud Services
1 46 (24.08%) AWS
2 28 (14.66%) Azure
3 22 (11.52%) GitHub
4 13 (6.81%) GitHub Actions
5 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (4.71%) Azure AKS
6 9 (4.71%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 9 (4.71%) Azure Service Bus
6 9 (4.71%) Entra ID
7 8 (4.19%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (4.19%) SaaS
8 4 (2.09%) BrowserStack
8 4 (2.09%) GCP
8 4 (2.09%) Sentry
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Data Factory
9 3 (1.57%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 3 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (1.57%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.57%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.05%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.71%) DNS
2 1 (0.52%) 3GPP
2 1 (0.52%) 4G
2 1 (0.52%) 5G
2 1 (0.52%) HTTP
2 1 (0.52%) LTE
2 1 (0.52%) MIMO
2 1 (0.52%) PuTTY
2 1 (0.52%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.90%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.81%) SQL Server
3 9 (4.71%) MySQL
4 8 (4.19%) Relational Database
5 7 (3.66%) MongoDB
6 5 (2.62%) Redis
7 3 (1.57%) Power Query
7 3 (1.57%) Siebel EIM
8 2 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (1.05%) Data Lake
8 2 (1.05%) GIS
8 2 (1.05%) NoSQL
8 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon Aurora
9 1 (0.52%) Apache Hive
9 1 (0.52%) Big Data
9 1 (0.52%) DB2
9 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.52%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 35 (18.32%) JIRA
2 20 (10.47%) Postman
3 19 (9.95%) Selenium
4 17 (8.90%) Cypress.io
5 15 (7.85%) Jenkins
5 15 (7.85%) JMeter
6 14 (7.33%) Git
7 10 (5.24%) REST Assured
8 9 (4.71%) JUnit
9 7 (3.66%) Bitbucket
10 6 (3.14%) Cucumber
10 6 (3.14%) GitLab
10 6 (3.14%) LoadRunner
10 6 (3.14%) SpecFlow
10 6 (3.14%) TestRail
11 4 (2.09%) CircleCI
11 4 (2.09%) Gradle
11 4 (2.09%) Maven
12 3 (1.57%) SoapUI
12 3 (1.57%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 55 (28.80%) Finance
3 32 (16.75%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (15.71%) Public Sector
5 18 (9.42%) Banking
6 7 (3.66%) Retail
7 6 (3.14%) Investment Banking
8 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.62%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.09%) Marketing
10 3 (1.57%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.57%) Front Office
11 2 (1.05%) Back Office
11 2 (1.05%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Electronics
11 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.05%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 35 (18.32%) Developer
2 31 (16.23%) Tester
3 20 (10.47%) Lead
4 15 (7.85%) Senior
5 14 (7.33%) Consultant
5 14 (7.33%) QA Engineer
5 14 (7.33%) Test Manager
6 13 (6.81%) Analyst
7 12 (6.28%) Test Leader
8 11 (5.76%) Software Engineer
9 8 (4.19%) Business Analyst
10 7 (3.66%) Automation Tester
10 7 (3.66%) Full-Stack Developer
10 7 (3.66%) Test Engineer
11 6 (3.14%) Python Developer
11 6 (3.14%) Python Engineer
11 6 (3.14%) QA Tester
11 6 (3.14%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.62%) Programme Test Manager
12 5 (2.62%) Senior QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (13.09%) REST
2 17 (8.90%) React
3 14 (7.33%) Kafka
4 13 (6.81%) Playwright
5 12 (6.28%) HTML
6 10 (5.24%) Node.js
6 10 (5.24%) Spring Boot
7 9 (4.71%) AngularJS
7 9 (4.71%) CSS
7 9 (4.71%) JPA
7 9 (4.71%) OAuth
7 9 (4.71%) OAuth2
7 9 (4.71%) OpenID
8 8 (4.19%) Hibernate
8 8 (4.19%) Spring
9 7 (3.66%) Oracle Fusion
9 7 (3.66%) Web Services
10 6 (3.14%) Gherkin
11 5 (2.62%) Pandas
11 5 (2.62%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.71%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (4.19%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.14%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.14%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (2.62%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (2.62%) PKI
5 4 (2.09%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.57%) Derivative
6 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.05%) Educational Technology
7 2 (1.05%) EPoS
7 2 (1.05%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.05%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.05%) Public Cloud
7 2 (1.05%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 2 (1.05%) Video\Live Streaming
8 1 (0.52%) Culture of Ownership
8 1 (0.52%) Solar Panel
Operating Systems
1 9 (4.71%) Linux
2 2 (1.05%) Android
2 2 (1.05%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (37.17%) Test Automation
2 69 (36.13%) Agile
3 46 (24.08%) Validation
4 44 (23.04%) Test Strategy
5 41 (21.47%) Integration Testing
6 40 (20.94%) CI/CD
6 40 (20.94%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.28%) DevOps
8 31 (16.23%) User Acceptance Testing
9 30 (15.71%) Performance Testing
10 28 (14.66%) Migration
11 27 (14.14%) Stakeholder Management
12 26 (13.61%) Test Management
13 24 (12.57%) System Integration Testing
14 21 (10.99%) Manual Testing
14 21 (10.99%) Unit Testing
15 20 (10.47%) Microservices
15 20 (10.47%) Test Scripting
16 19 (9.95%) Software Testing
17 17 (8.90%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 39 (20.42%) SQL
2 36 (18.85%) Python
3 26 (13.61%) JavaScript
4 24 (12.57%) Java
5 19 (9.95%) TypeScript
6 17 (8.90%) C#
7 4 (2.09%) PL/SQL
8 3 (1.57%) PHP
8 3 (1.57%) VBA
9 2 (1.05%) Go
9 2 (1.05%) JSX
9 2 (1.05%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.52%) ABAP
10 1 (0.52%) Bash
10 1 (0.52%) Groovy
10 1 (0.52%) Perl
10 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.52%) Ruby
10 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 42 (21.99%) Security Cleared
2 37 (19.37%) SC Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) ISTQB
4 11 (5.76%) Degree
5 7 (3.66%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.57%) CIMA
6 3 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.52%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.52%) CBAP
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (0.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.52%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.52%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (24.08%) QA
2 9 (4.71%) Accessibility
2 9 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 6 (3.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.57%) ISO 22301
4 3 (1.57%) ISO 31000
4 3 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.57%) SEPA
5 2 (1.05%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.05%) WCAG
6 1 (0.52%) EMIR
6 1 (0.52%) GDPR
6 1 (0.52%) MiFID
System Software
1 19 (9.95%) Docker
2 2 (1.05%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 21 (10.99%) Kubernetes
2 13 (6.81%) Terraform
3 7 (3.66%) Grafana
4 5 (2.62%) HP ALM
5 4 (2.09%) Ansible
6 1 (0.52%) Kibana
6 1 (0.52%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.52%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 21 (10.99%) SAP
2 18 (9.42%) Oracle
3 12 (6.28%) ServiceNow
4 10 (5.24%) Workday
5 8 (4.19%) Databricks
6 7 (3.66%) Microsoft
7 6 (3.14%) HP
8 5 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.09%) Snow
10 3 (1.57%) Google
10 3 (1.57%) Kronos
10 3 (1.57%) Siebel
11 2 (1.05%) Adobe
11 2 (1.05%) Ariba
11 2 (1.05%) Kofax
11 2 (1.05%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.05%) Murex
11 2 (1.05%) Nintex
11 2 (1.05%) ReadSoft
11 2 (1.05%) Sitecore