TestComplete Contracts

SmartBear Software TestComplete
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for TestComplete skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TestComplete over the 6 months to 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 695 841
Rank change year-on-year +124 +146 -169
Contract jobs citing TestComplete 11 17 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.025% 0.028% 0.016%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.21% 0.19% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 12
10th Percentile - £351 £364
25th Percentile £363 £464 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £520 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +15.56% -
75th Percentile £750 - £509
90th Percentile - £534 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - £393
% change year-on-year - - +1.29%

All Development Application Skills
UK

TestComplete 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 5,146 9,169 16,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.79% 15.24% 17.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,477 6,438 11,343
10th Percentile £356 £388 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £456
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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 189 261 214
10th Percentile £31.71 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £45.88 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.63% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.23
90th Percentile £85.00 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +1.63% +11.82% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TestComplete in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TestComplete in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestComplete over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestComplete in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for TestComplete in the UK

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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 TestComplete within the UK over the 6 months to 24 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 +115 8 £750 +44.23%
London +96 6 £750 +44.23%
Work from Home +124 5 £700 +30.84%
UK excluding London - 4 £375 - 2
North of England - 2 - -
North West - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £375 - 2

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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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Endur
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Data Lake
1 1 (9.09%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Zephyr
2 2 (18.18%) JIRA
3 1 (9.09%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Back Office
1 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Front Office
2 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
2 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Tester
2 5 (45.45%) Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Test Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Automation Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Senior Software Tester
4 2 (18.18%) Software Tester
5 1 (9.09%) CRM Analyst
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Automation Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) .NET
2 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
3 1 (9.09%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Equities
1 1 (9.09%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 3 (27.27%) CRM
2 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
3 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
3 2 (18.18%) OO
3 2 (18.18%) OOP
3 2 (18.18%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Performance Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Software Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 1 (9.09%) Data Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (9.09%) Information Management
4 1 (9.09%) Migration
4 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (72.73%) C#
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) C++
4 2 (18.18%) Delphi
4 2 (18.18%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) VBScript
5 1 (9.09%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) ISEB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) OpenLink
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle