Exploratory Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 447 550
Rank change year-on-year +117 +103 -104
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 14 24 73
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.092% 0.094% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.10% 0.10% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 20 56
10th Percentile £357 £323 £321
25th Percentile £363 £370 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -1.47% -2.52%
75th Percentile £475 £509 £500
90th Percentile £745 £605 £510
UK median daily rate £448 £463 £425
% change year-on-year -3.21% +8.82% +3.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £21.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -10.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Exploratory 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 13,413 23,039 40,643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.76% 91.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,959 16,290 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £361
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 529 544
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.58
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £67.35
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Exploratory Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Exploratory Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing.

Exploratory Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Exploratory Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Exploratory Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Exploratory 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 2 (14.29%) CMS
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) AWS
2 3 (21.43%) Azure
3 2 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
3 2 (14.29%) Power Platform
3 2 (14.29%) Serverless
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Functions
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Power BI
2 1 (7.14%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (7.14%) Parquet
2 1 (7.14%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Postman
2 3 (21.43%) JIRA
2 3 (21.43%) Selenium
2 3 (21.43%) SoapUI
3 2 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 2 (14.29%) Fiddler
3 2 (14.29%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.14%) Appium
4 1 (7.14%) Gatling
4 1 (7.14%) Gerrit
4 1 (7.14%) Git
4 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
4 1 (7.14%) JUnit
4 1 (7.14%) LoadRunner
4 1 (7.14%) NUnit
4 1 (7.14%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (7.14%) SpecFlow
4 1 (7.14%) TestNG
4 1 (7.14%) TestRail
4 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) Analyst
1 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
1 4 (28.57%) Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Automation Tester
2 3 (21.43%) Senior
2 3 (21.43%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Automation Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) QA Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) QA Consultant
3 2 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) AngularJS
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
2 1 (7.14%) JSON
2 1 (7.14%) Playwright
2 1 (7.14%) RESTful
2 1 (7.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.14%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 6 (42.86%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) End-to-End Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 4 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (28.57%) DevOps
4 4 (28.57%) Software Engineering
4 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Open Source
5 3 (21.43%) QA Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) BDD
6 2 (14.29%) Capacity Management
6 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 2 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) Java
1 5 (35.71%) Python
2 3 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 2 (14.29%) Perl
3 2 (14.29%) Ruby
3 2 (14.29%) TypeScript
4 1 (7.14%) C#
4 1 (7.14%) PHP
4 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 1 (7.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (7.14%) HNC
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (7.14%) Master's Degree
2 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
2 1 (7.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (64.29%) QA
2 4 (28.57%) Accessibility
3 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Opsgenie
2 1 (7.14%) Kibana
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (14.29%) Dynatrace
2 2 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) PagerDuty
2 2 (14.29%) Splunk
3 1 (7.14%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) IBM