Developer in Test Contracts with Work from Home Options

Developer in Test
UK > Work from Home

The median Developer in Test daily rate in Work from Home is £461 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
5 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 465 582
Rank change year-on-year +124 +117 -113
Contract jobs requiring a Developer in Test 7 11 40
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.046% 0.043% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.045% 0.094%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 34
10th Percentile £356 £393 £343
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £443 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% -6.84% +4.11%
75th Percentile £499 £488 £525
90th Percentile £500 £514 £601
UK median daily rate £500 £575 £475
% change year-on-year -13.04% +21.05% +2.70%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,165 24,342 42,704
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.49% 95.31% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,495 17,179 30,870
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £718
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 605
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.68 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.71 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £54.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% +54.29% +42.86%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
% change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%

Developer in Test
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Developer in Test in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Developer in Test trend for jobs with a WFH option

Developer in Test
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 Developer in Test.

Developer in Test daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Developer in Test
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Developer in Test over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Developer in Test daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Developer in Test Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Developer in Test contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Developer in Test in the job title.

1 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
1 6 (85.71%) SDET
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
2 5 (71.43%) Java
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
4 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
4 3 (42.86%) BDD
4 3 (42.86%) AWS
4 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
4 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
5 2 (28.57%) MySQL
5 2 (28.57%) Oracle
5 2 (28.57%) C#
5 2 (28.57%) Web Services
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
5 2 (28.57%) Service Management
5 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
5 2 (28.57%) JMeter
5 2 (28.57%) Scrum
5 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
5 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
5 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
5 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
5 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
5 2 (28.57%) Terraform
5 2 (28.57%) Azure

Developer in Test Skill Set
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 (42.86%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Entra ID
3 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MariaDB
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
2 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) Cucumber
2 3 (42.86%) WebDriver
3 2 (28.57%) JMeter
4 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
4 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
4 1 (14.29%) JIRA
4 1 (14.29%) JUnit
4 1 (14.29%) Octopus Deploy
4 1 (14.29%) REST Assured
4 1 (14.29%) SpecFlow
4 1 (14.29%) TeamCity
4 1 (14.29%) TestNG
4 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Back Office
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Gherkin
1 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 1 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) CI/CD
1 6 (85.71%) SDET
1 6 (85.71%) Software Testing
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) B2C
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Open Source
5 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) TDD
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) Java
2 3 (42.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
4 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Kubernetes
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
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