Hamcrest Contracts

Hamcrest
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Hamcrest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hamcrest 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 519 579 715
Rank change year-on-year +60 +136 +138
Contract jobs citing Hamcrest 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.003% 0.007% 0.005%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.024% 0.058% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 2
10th Percentile - £306 £463
25th Percentile - £316 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £338 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -32.50% -35.48%
75th Percentile - £344 £534
90th Percentile - - £548
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £538

All Development Application Skills
UK

Hamcrest 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 4,103 5,181 9,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.89% 15.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,477 6,339
10th Percentile £340 £356 £385
25th Percentile £413 £425 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £663
90th Percentile £717 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £483 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.40% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 197 246
10th Percentile £26.92 £32.48 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.53 £46.25 £53.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £86.15 £81.60 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

Hamcrest
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Hamcrest in the UK

Hamcrest
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Hamcrest in the UK

Hamcrest
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hamcrest 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 +55 1 - -
Work from Home +40 1 - -
London +36 1 - -

Hamcrest
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 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk