Agile Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Agile Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 459 610
Rank change year-on-year +120 +151 -140
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 4 7 19
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.027% 0.028% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% 0.032% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 16
10th Percentile - £383 £415
25th Percentile - £394 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £498
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -14.57% +24.38%
75th Percentile - £481 £528
90th Percentile - £508 £575
UK median daily rate £449 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% -7.89% +12.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Agile Testing 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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,003 22,075 40,116
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.68% 91.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,720 15,632 29,130
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £631
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 503 534
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.63 £14.08
25th Percentile £24.44 £26.68 £20.43
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £38.83
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +35.21% +61.78%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.11% +38.82% +5.90%

Agile Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Agile Testing.

Agile Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Unix
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Test Assurance
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Presales
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Disclosure Scotland