HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for HP UFT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP UFT over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 585 674 796
Rank change year-on-year +89 +122 -144
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 13 45 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.030% 0.075% 0.060%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.25% 0.50% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 36 36
10th Percentile £400 £400 £356
25th Percentile £513 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% +11.11% +20.81%
75th Percentile £599 £583 £551
90th Percentile £626 £650 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £438 £535
% change year-on-year +23.43% -18.22% +42.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

HP UFT is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,120 9,058 15,913
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.82% 15.15% 17.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,445 6,374 11,232
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.24%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 250 212
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.20 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +11.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £82.75 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

HP UFT
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for HP UFT in the UK

HP UFT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for HP UFT in the UK

HP UFT
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP UFT over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for HP UFT in the UK

HP UFT
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing HP UFT.

Hourly rate trend for HP UFT in the UK

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Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing HP UFT within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 +107 13 £533 +2.40% 6
London +87 11 £525 +5.00% 3
Work from Home +124 6 £525 +5.00% 4
UK excluding London +49 2 £540 +23.43% 5
South West +22 2 £540 -12.90%

HP UFT
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 3 (23.08%) WebLogic
1 3 (23.08%) WebSphere
2 2 (15.38%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Relational Database
2 3 (23.08%) MySQL
3 1 (7.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 11 (84.62%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) Katalon Studio
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) JIRA
3 2 (15.38%) LoadRunner
3 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.69%) FitNesse
4 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 4 (30.77%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Lead
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared Technical Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Java Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Service Management Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Developer
3 1 (7.69%) QA Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Senior
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.69%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (30.77%) Spring
2 3 (23.08%) AngularJS
2 3 (23.08%) jQuery
2 3 (23.08%) Kafka
2 3 (23.08%) RESTful
2 3 (23.08%) SOAP
2 3 (23.08%) Spring Boot
2 3 (23.08%) Struts
2 3 (23.08%) Twitter Bootstrap
2 3 (23.08%) Web Services
3 1 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 9 (69.23%) Test Automation
3 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Unit Testing
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Regression Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
6 3 (23.08%) Batch Processing
6 3 (23.08%) SDLC
7 2 (15.38%) Asset Management
7 2 (15.38%) Business Development
7 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 2 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
7 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Refactoring
7 2 (15.38%) Service Management
7 2 (15.38%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (15.38%) Test Management
7 2 (15.38%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (69.23%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) DV Cleared
1 2 (15.38%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (15.38%) HP ALM
3 1 (7.69%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
2 3 (23.08%) Micro Focus
2 3 (23.08%) Oracle
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) OpenText
3 2 (15.38%) Workday