HP UFT Contracts with Work from Home Options

HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
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 HP UFT skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited HP UFT 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 339 458 605
Rank change year-on-year +119 +147 -133
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 5 13 18
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.051% 0.040%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.27% 0.33% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 16
10th Percentile - £398 £361
25th Percentile £513 £414 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.75% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £523
90th Percentile - £658 £670
UK median daily rate £540 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +8.00% +11.11% +20.00%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

HP UFT is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,844 3,915 8,292
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.09% 15.25% 18.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,321 2,802 5,992
10th Percentile £360 £394 £385
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.09% +2.86% +8.92%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £700 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 113 103
10th Percentile £28.99 £44.68 -
25th Percentile £47.38 £52.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +30.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £90.00 £70.00 £61.08
90th Percentile - £79.50 £67.40
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%

HP UFT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

HP UFT trend for jobs with a WFH option

HP UFT
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 HP UFT.

HP UFT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HP UFT
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 3 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 3 (60.00%) WebSphere
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Katalon Studio
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Lead
2 2 (40.00%) Java Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) jQuery
1 3 (60.00%) Kafka
1 3 (60.00%) RESTful
1 3 (60.00%) SOAP
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (60.00%) Struts
1 3 (60.00%) Twitter Bootstrap
1 3 (60.00%) Web Services
2 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Batch Processing
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
2 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (20.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) IBM
1 3 (60.00%) Micro Focus
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle