End-to-End Testing Contracts

End-to-End Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 314 350 308
Rank change year-on-year +36 -42 +39
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 272 379 736
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.64% 0.67% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.75% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 193 252 513
10th Percentile £340 £355 £363
25th Percentile £400 £425 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +17.10%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £600
90th Percentile £729 £775 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £524 £475
% change year-on-year -11.74% +10.32% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile - £24.33 £25.20
25th Percentile - £28.94 £25.50
Median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -31.54%
75th Percentile £29.38 £44.94 £49.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £49.18 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.03 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

End-to-End 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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 24 May 2024.

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

End-to-End Testing
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 24 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 -7 206 £500 -7.41% 86
London +11 120 £513 -10.87% 51
Work from Home +97 111 £500 - 47
UK excluding London +17 108 £463 -11.74% 55
South East +20 39 £450 -10.00% 21
Scotland +44 24 £400 -3.61% 3
North of England +2 22 £500 -11.50% 11
North West +35 14 £663 +32.50% 5
East Midlands +25 13 £400 -44.56% 1
Midlands +24 13 £400 -28.57% 6
South West +2 7 £638 +21.47% 7
Yorkshire +1 7 £436 -30.24% 5
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 1
East of England +2 1 £375 -49.53% 7
North East -10 1 £395 -30.09% 1

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 20 (7.35%) Confluence
2 7 (2.57%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.21%) CMS
4 4 (1.47%) Apache
4 4 (1.47%) IIS
4 4 (1.47%) JBoss
5 3 (1.10%) Headless CMS
5 3 (1.10%) Umbraco
6 2 (0.74%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.37%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.88%) Oracle AGIS
1 16 (5.88%) Oracle Assets
2 15 (5.51%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (5.51%) Oracle General Ledger
2 15 (5.51%) Oracle Payables
3 8 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (2.21%) Oracle Receivables
5 5 (1.84%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (1.47%) SAP ERP
6 4 (1.47%) SAP Payroll
6 4 (1.47%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.74%) NEC Housing
7 2 (0.74%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 1 (0.37%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.37%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 57 (20.96%) AWS
2 41 (15.07%) Azure
3 14 (5.15%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.78%) GCP
5 12 (4.41%) Amazon EC2
5 12 (4.41%) Dynamics 365
6 11 (4.04%) Amazon S3
6 11 (4.04%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (3.68%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.94%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (2.94%) Route 53
8 8 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 6 (2.21%) Serverless
9 6 (2.21%) SuccessFactors
10 5 (1.84%) Amazon ECS
10 5 (1.84%) GitHub
10 5 (1.84%) Power Platform
11 4 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
11 4 (1.47%) IBM Blueworks
11 4 (1.47%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.57%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.84%) SSL
3 1 (0.37%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (8.09%) NoSQL
2 20 (7.35%) Relational Database
3 12 (4.41%) PostgreSQL
4 8 (2.94%) Elasticsearch
4 8 (2.94%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.84%) MySQL
5 5 (1.84%) Power BI
6 4 (1.47%) DB2
6 4 (1.47%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.10%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (1.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 3 (1.10%) Apache Cassandra
7 3 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.74%) Amazon Athena
8 2 (0.74%) Apache Hive
8 2 (0.74%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.37%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.37%) DynamoDB
9 1 (0.37%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 49 (18.01%) JIRA
2 25 (9.19%) Git
3 23 (8.46%) Jenkins
4 17 (6.25%) Cucumber
5 16 (5.88%) Selenium
6 14 (5.15%) JUnit
7 12 (4.41%) Cypress.io
8 11 (4.04%) GitLab
8 11 (4.04%) webpack
9 8 (2.94%) Bitbucket
9 8 (2.94%) Postman
10 7 (2.57%) JMeter
10 7 (2.57%) TestRail
11 5 (1.84%) Maven
11 5 (1.84%) SpecFlow
12 4 (1.47%) Artifactory
12 4 (1.47%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.47%) Team Foundation Server
12 4 (1.47%) Vagrant
12 4 (1.47%) Visual Studio
General
1 80 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 62 (22.79%) Finance
3 39 (14.34%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.72%) Public Sector
5 19 (6.99%) Banking
6 15 (5.51%) General Ledger
7 14 (5.15%) Front Office
8 11 (4.04%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.68%) Automotive
9 10 (3.68%) Marketing
10 7 (2.57%) Investment Banking
10 7 (2.57%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.84%) Electronics
12 4 (1.47%) German Language
12 4 (1.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.47%) Retail
13 3 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.10%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 67 (24.63%) Developer
2 39 (14.34%) Analyst
3 28 (10.29%) Lead
4 27 (9.93%) Test Manager
5 26 (9.56%) Tester
6 25 (9.19%) Java Developer
7 23 (8.46%) Test Analyst
8 19 (6.99%) Senior
8 19 (6.99%) Test Engineer
9 18 (6.62%) Architect
10 15 (5.51%) Software Developer
11 14 (5.15%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (4.41%) Oracle Architect
12 12 (4.41%) Oracle Solutions Architect
13 10 (3.68%) Manual Tester
13 10 (3.68%) React Developer
14 9 (3.31%) Python Developer
14 9 (3.31%) Software Engineer
14 9 (3.31%) Test Leader
15 8 (2.94%) Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (12.13%) RESTful
2 32 (11.76%) React
3 21 (7.72%) REST
4 20 (7.35%) Spring
4 20 (7.35%) Spring Boot
5 19 (6.99%) Kafka
6 18 (6.62%) Redux
7 15 (5.51%) CSS
7 15 (5.51%) FastAPI
7 15 (5.51%) Node.js
7 15 (5.51%) WebSockets
8 12 (4.41%) .NET
8 12 (4.41%) HTML
9 9 (3.31%) ADO
10 8 (2.94%) Express.js
10 8 (2.94%) Playwright
11 7 (2.57%) AngularJS
11 7 (2.57%) Elastic Stack
11 7 (2.57%) OpenTracing
12 6 (2.21%) Reactive Extensions
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.41%) Data Structures
2 9 (3.31%) Distributed Systems
3 8 (2.94%) Product Ownership
4 7 (2.57%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.21%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.21%) Management Information System
6 5 (1.84%) Mobile App
7 4 (1.47%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.47%) Virtual Team
8 3 (1.10%) Data Centre
8 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.10%) FMCG
8 3 (1.10%) Market Risk
8 3 (1.10%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.10%) Private Cloud
8 3 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.74%) Equities
9 2 (0.74%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 2 (0.74%) PKI
9 2 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (10.29%) Linux
2 13 (4.78%) Windows
3 12 (4.41%) Unix
4 6 (2.21%) Android
5 5 (1.84%) Apple iOS
6 4 (1.47%) AIX
6 4 (1.47%) Embedded Linux
6 4 (1.47%) Solaris
7 2 (0.74%) VMS
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (40.07%) Agile
2 76 (27.94%) Test Automation
3 56 (20.59%) User Acceptance Testing
4 53 (19.49%) CI/CD
5 48 (17.65%) Integration Testing
6 46 (16.91%) Scenario Testing
7 45 (16.54%) Test Scripting
8 41 (15.07%) DevOps
9 39 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
10 38 (13.97%) Software Testing
11 32 (11.76%) Scrum
11 32 (11.76%) Test Strategy
12 31 (11.40%) Continuous Integration
13 30 (11.03%) Unit Testing
14 27 (9.93%) Test Management
15 26 (9.56%) Project Management
16 25 (9.19%) Functional Testing
16 25 (9.19%) Microservices
16 25 (9.19%) System Integration Testing
17 24 (8.82%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 61 (22.43%) SQL
2 50 (18.38%) Python
3 46 (16.91%) Java
4 36 (13.24%) TypeScript
5 33 (12.13%) JavaScript
6 17 (6.25%) C#
7 12 (4.41%) Kotlin
8 10 (3.68%) Scala
9 9 (3.31%) C++
10 5 (1.84%) C
10 5 (1.84%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.10%) Bash
11 3 (1.10%) Perl
11 3 (1.10%) Ruby
11 3 (1.10%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.74%) Go
12 2 (0.74%) Groovy
12 2 (0.74%) PL/SQL
13 1 (0.37%) Swift
13 1 (0.37%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (17.28%) Security Cleared
2 43 (15.81%) SC Cleared
3 30 (11.03%) Degree
4 22 (8.09%) ISTQB
5 11 (4.04%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.57%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.84%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (1.84%) ISEB
8 4 (1.47%) CIPD
9 3 (1.10%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.10%) HNC
9 3 (1.10%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.74%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.74%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.37%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (17.28%) QA
2 15 (5.51%) GAAP
3 7 (2.57%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.21%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.84%) PMO
6 4 (1.47%) SLA
7 2 (0.74%) Def Stans
7 2 (0.74%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.74%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.37%) GDPR
System Software
1 26 (9.56%) Docker
2 4 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.47%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.74%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.37%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (11.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (3.68%) Grafana
3 7 (2.57%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.57%) Terraform
3 7 (2.57%) Zipkin
4 6 (2.21%) Ansible
5 5 (1.84%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (1.47%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.10%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.10%) Nagios
7 3 (1.10%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.10%) Puppet
8 2 (0.74%) Istio
8 2 (0.74%) Kibana
9 1 (0.37%) Podman
Vendors
1 46 (16.91%) Oracle
2 32 (11.76%) SAP
3 23 (8.46%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.41%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.31%) Splunk
6 8 (2.94%) Google
6 8 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.21%) IBM
7 6 (2.21%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.47%) AppDynamics
8 4 (1.47%) F5
8 4 (1.47%) HP
9 3 (1.10%) Adobe
9 3 (1.10%) Murex
9 3 (1.10%) New Relic
9 3 (1.10%) OpenText
9 3 (1.10%) VMware
10 2 (0.74%) Informatica
10 2 (0.74%) NEC
10 2 (0.74%) Optimizely