Data-Driven Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Data-Driven Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Data-Driven Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data-Driven Testing over the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 313 348 449
Rank change year-on-year +35 +101 +189
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.039% 0.014% 0.012%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.016% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £388 - £548
25th Percentile £407 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £550 £613
Median % change year-on-year -19.36% -10.20% +16.67%
75th Percentile £473 - £647
90th Percentile £474 - £656
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +33.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Data-Driven 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 9,345 12,722 21,755
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.78% 87.31% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,327 8,557 15,344
10th Percentile £325 £325 £358
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +0.47%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £751 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 554 526
10th Percentile £12.73 £15.05 £18.50
25th Percentile £19.00 £25.26 £25.96
Median hourly rate £34.83 £43.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.01% -18.10% +28.05%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £68.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £38.99
% change year-on-year -32.93% -3.82% +49.95%

Data-Driven Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Data-Driven Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Data-Driven 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 Data-Driven Testing.

Data-Driven Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Data-Driven 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Security Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) SailPoint
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (75.00%) Information Security
2 3 (75.00%) IT Audit
3 2 (50.00%) Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
3 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
3 2 (50.00%) Generative AI
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Cleansing
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (25.00%) Kanban
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CISA
1 3 (75.00%) CISM
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
1 3 (75.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) COBIT
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (75.00%) NIST
1 3 (75.00%) NIST 800
2 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (25.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow