Test Assurance Contracts

Test Assurance
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance 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 583 678 798
Rank change year-on-year +95 +120 -165
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 15 41 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.035% 0.069% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.040% 0.076% 0.063%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 38
10th Percentile £281 £413 £351
25th Percentile £380 £463 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £575 £475
Median % change year-on-year -24.35% +21.05% +2.70%
75th Percentile £453 £608 £544
90th Percentile £499 £615 £611
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -10.26% +2.63% +15.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test Assurance 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 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance.

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in the UK

Test Assurance
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Assurance 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 +102 15 £435 -24.35% 6
London +94 10 £408 -30.64%
Work from Home +127 6 £288 -41.03% 3
UK excluding London +48 5 £438 -10.26% 6
Midlands +25 3 £425 -29.17%
West Midlands - 3 £425 -
South East +18 2 £456 -3.95%

Test Assurance
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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
2 1 (6.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
1 6 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) GitHub
3 1 (6.67%) Miro
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
1 1 (6.67%) PuTTY
1 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
1 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Selenium
2 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (20.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (13.33%) Appium
3 2 (13.33%) LoadRunner
3 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 2 (13.33%) Rational Performance Tester
3 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.67%) JMeter
4 1 (6.67%) Oracle APEX
4 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
3 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Automotive
5 1 (6.67%) Back Office
5 1 (6.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Analyst
2 6 (40.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Test Manager
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) IT Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Junior
5 2 (13.33%) Junior Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Junior Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
5 2 (13.33%) Oracle Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Test Assurance Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Test Leader
6 1 (6.67%) E-Commerce Manager
6 1 (6.67%) QA Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Security Test Manager
6 1 (6.67%) Strategy Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Test Practitioner
6 1 (6.67%) Test Strategy Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (6.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.67%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.67%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.67%) Playwright
2 1 (6.67%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Windows
2 3 (20.00%) Unix
3 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 1 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 9 (60.00%) Agile
3 8 (53.33%) Test Automation
4 6 (40.00%) DevOps
4 6 (40.00%) SDLC
5 5 (33.33%) Defect Management
5 5 (33.33%) Test Management
5 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
6 4 (26.67%) Acceptance Criteria
6 4 (26.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Service Management
6 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
7 3 (20.00%) Functional Testing
7 3 (20.00%) ITIL
7 3 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
7 3 (20.00%) Project Management
7 3 (20.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) C#
3 2 (13.33%) Java
4 1 (6.67%) C++
4 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
4 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) ISTQB
2 6 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 3 (20.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 3 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (13.33%) ISEB
6 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.67%) Terminal Services
2 1 (6.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) HP ALM
2 1 (6.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) HP
2 4 (26.67%) Oracle
3 3 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 2 (13.33%) IBM
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) Red Hat
5 1 (6.67%) VMware