HP UFT Contracts

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring HP UFT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP UFT over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 562 659
Rank change year-on-year +17 +97 +144
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 14 10 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.042% 0.025% 0.033%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.29% 0.20% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 12
10th Percentile £290 £410 £401
25th Percentile £320 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £399 £525 £449
Median % change year-on-year -24.10% +16.99% -10.25%
75th Percentile £520 £540 £608
90th Percentile - £545 £682
UK excluding London median daily rate £402 £525 £428
% change year-on-year -23.43% +22.66% -4.89%

All Development Application Skills
UK

HP UFT 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 4,847 5,075 7,600
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.68% 12.64% 13.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,271 3,358 5,261
10th Percentile £325 £350 £363
25th Percentile £405 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £595 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 221 234
10th Percentile £24.05 £25.99 £45.26
25th Percentile £50.00 £46.18 £52.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year - +4.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £75.00
90th Percentile £84.50 £73.75 £87.22
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year - +5.69% +6.96%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing HP UFT over the 6 months to 27 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for HP UFT in the UK

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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 10 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 July 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 +32 14 £399 -24.10% 4
UK excluding London +36 9 £402 -23.43% 6
Work from Home +26 8 £361 -31.33% 5
North of England - 6 £461 - 1
London +14 5 £395 -24.76% 1
Yorkshire - 3 £520 - 1
North West - 3 £300 -
East Midlands -2 2 £326 -37.90%
Midlands -4 2 £326 -37.90% 1
South East - 1 - - 1

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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 6 (42.86%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) GitHub
2 1 (7.14%) BrowserStack
2 1 (7.14%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (100.00%) Selenium
2 9 (64.29%) Jenkins
2 9 (64.29%) JIRA
3 8 (57.14%) JUnit
4 7 (50.00%) Gradle
4 7 (50.00%) IntelliJ
4 7 (50.00%) Maven
5 4 (28.57%) CA Release Automation
5 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
5 4 (28.57%) Cypress.io
5 4 (28.57%) NetBeans
5 4 (28.57%) Subversion
5 4 (28.57%) TestComplete
6 3 (21.43%) Git
7 2 (14.29%) Appium
8 1 (7.14%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (7.14%) Postman
8 1 (7.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Analyst
1 6 (42.86%) Test Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Test Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Automation Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Java Automation Tester
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Test Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Tester
3 3 (21.43%) Developer
3 3 (21.43%) Java Developer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (42.86%) Playwright
2 5 (35.71%) Kafka
3 4 (28.57%) .NET
3 4 (28.57%) Hibernate
3 4 (28.57%) J2EE
3 4 (28.57%) Spring
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Boot
3 4 (28.57%) Spring Integration
3 4 (28.57%) Spring MVC
3 4 (28.57%) Web Services
4 3 (21.43%) Ajax
4 3 (21.43%) AngularJS
4 3 (21.43%) Bootstrap
4 3 (21.43%) CSS
4 3 (21.43%) HTML
4 3 (21.43%) HTML5
4 3 (21.43%) jQuery
4 3 (21.43%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 4 (28.57%) Data Structures
2 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
2 7 (50.00%) Open Source
2 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 5 (35.71%) CI/CD
3 5 (35.71%) Test Scripting
4 4 (28.57%) API Development
4 4 (28.57%) BDD
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) Data Transformation
4 4 (28.57%) Deployment Automation
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 4 (28.57%) MVC
4 4 (28.57%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) System Testing
4 4 (28.57%) TDD
4 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) Java
2 7 (50.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (35.71%) C#
3 5 (35.71%) Python
4 3 (21.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (28.57%) Progress Chef
1 4 (28.57%) Puppet
2 1 (7.14%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Bloomberg
1 4 (28.57%) CA Agile Central
1 4 (28.57%) Reuters