Pa11y Contracts

Pa11y
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Pa11y skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Pa11y 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 517 581 716
Rank change year-on-year +64 +135 +138
Contract jobs citing Pa11y 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% 0.002% 0.003%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.073% 0.019% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £455 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £465 £488 £525
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -3.16% -5.00% -

All Development Application Skills
UK

Pa11y 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%

Pa11y
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Pa11y as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Pa11y in the UK

Pa11y
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Pa11y.

Daily rate trend for Pa11y in the UK

Pa11y
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Pa11y 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 +58 2 £460 -3.16%
UK excluding London +63 1 £460 -3.16%
Work from Home - 1 £460 -
London - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £460 -
West Midlands - 1 £460 -

Pa11y
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (33.33%) BrowserStack
1 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Browser DevTools
1 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
1 1 (33.33%) Git
1 1 (33.33%) GitLab
1 1 (33.33%) JMeter
1 1 (33.33%) Newman
1 1 (33.33%) Postman
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Applications Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Tester
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software QA Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) API Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) BDD
2 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
2 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Digital Twin
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 1 (33.33%) OWASP
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Remediation Plan
2 1 (33.33%) Speech Recognition
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) WCAG
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Apple