Compatibility Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Compatibility Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Compatibility Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Compatibility Testing 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 295 342 468
Rank change year-on-year +47 +126 +149
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 9 3 9
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.020% 0.035%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.022% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 9
10th Percentile £315 £334 £410
25th Percentile £338 £366 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £422 £438 £650
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -32.69% +42.39%
75th Percentile £495 £451 £700
90th Percentile £498 £454 -
UK median daily rate £467 £438 £490
% change year-on-year +6.63% -10.71% +2.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Compatibility Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Compatibility Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Compatibility Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Compatibility Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Compatibility Testing.

Compatibility Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Compatibility Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Compatibility Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Compatibility 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 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
1 1 (11.11%) Drupal
1 1 (11.11%) Sitecore CMS
Cloud Services
1 8 (88.89%) Azure
1 8 (88.89%) Entra ID
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft 365
1 8 (88.89%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) MSI
2 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (88.89%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Legal
3 1 (11.11%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Applications Packager
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) UAT Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (88.89%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Application Packaging
1 8 (88.89%) Microservices
1 8 (88.89%) Migration
1 8 (88.89%) Programme Management
1 8 (88.89%) Project Management
2 7 (77.78%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (11.11%) Agile
3 1 (11.11%) API Integration
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
3 1 (11.11%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (11.11%) ERP
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) User Experience
3 1 (11.11%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) SC Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Optimizely
2 1 (11.11%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Sitecore