TestRail Contracts

Gurock TestRail
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring TestRail skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited TestRail over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 480 535 653
Rank change year-on-year +55 +118 +152
Contract jobs citing TestRail 39 65 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.15% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.95% 1.26% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 47 47
10th Percentile £370 £350 £443
25th Percentile £453 £413 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £566 £608 £588
90th Percentile £575 £683 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -9.09% +1.85% +16.76%

All Development Application Skills
UK

TestRail 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 4,099 5,176 9,015
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 14.02% 11.87% 15.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,743 3,476 6,340
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 £716 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 195 246
10th Percentile £26.77 £32.23 £45.00
25th Percentile £51.30 £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 £86.38 £81.90 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +12.84%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
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 TestRail within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +37 35 £500 -9.09% 25
UK excluding London +40 30 £500 -9.09% 17
South East +27 22 £500 -9.09% 6
London +23 5 £450 -27.27% 9
Work from Home +34 4 £423 -28.99% 12
North of England +31 4 £513 +20.59%
Yorkshire - 4 £513 -
East of England +35 3 - - 4
South West +45 1 £400 +11.11% 5
Scotland - 1 £425 -

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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 7 (17.95%) Confluence
2 1 (2.56%) Appian
Business Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 7 (17.95%) Azure
1 7 (17.95%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (5.13%) AWS
2 2 (5.13%) GCP
2 2 (5.13%) GitHub
2 2 (5.13%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (2.56%) BrowserStack
3 1 (2.56%) Firebase
3 1 (2.56%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.13%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (61.54%) JIRA
2 10 (25.64%) Jenkins
3 8 (20.51%) Git
4 7 (17.95%) Bitbucket
4 7 (17.95%) GoogleTest
4 7 (17.95%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (10.26%) Postman
5 4 (10.26%) Selenium
6 3 (7.69%) Cypress.io
6 3 (7.69%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.56%) Appium
7 1 (2.56%) JMeter
7 1 (2.56%) JUnit
General
1 9 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (20.51%) Finance
3 1 (2.56%) Banking
3 1 (2.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (43.59%) Analyst
2 13 (33.33%) Senior
2 13 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 10 (25.64%) Test Engineer
4 9 (23.08%) Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Embedded C++ Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Embedded C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Embedded Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Embedded Linux Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Embedded Linux Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Linux Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior C++ Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Embedded Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Embedded Software Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 7 (17.95%) Senior Software Engineer
6 5 (12.82%) Tester
7 4 (10.26%) QA Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.69%) REST
2 2 (5.13%) Playwright
3 1 (2.56%) .NET
3 1 (2.56%) Flutter
3 1 (2.56%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.69%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.56%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.56%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.95%) Embedded Linux
1 7 (17.95%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (56.41%) Agile
2 18 (46.15%) Test Automation
2 18 (46.15%) Test Management
3 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (33.33%) Scrum
5 9 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 9 (23.08%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (23.08%) Requirements Analysis
5 9 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 9 (23.08%) Test Strategy
6 8 (20.51%) DevOps
7 7 (17.95%) Clean Code
7 7 (17.95%) Kanban
7 7 (17.95%) Multithreaded Programming
7 7 (17.95%) Multithreading
7 7 (17.95%) OO
7 7 (17.95%) OOD
7 7 (17.95%) Performance Testing
7 7 (17.95%) Software Engineering
7 7 (17.95%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.08%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) C++
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Python
4 2 (5.13%) JavaScript
4 2 (5.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 15 (38.46%) ISTQB
2 12 (30.77%) Security Cleared
3 11 (28.21%) DV Cleared
3 11 (28.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 10 (25.64%) Degree
5 9 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.56%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (2.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (38.46%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.56%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (2.56%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (17.95%) Google
2 2 (5.13%) Oracle
2 2 (5.13%) SAP
3 1 (2.56%) HP