HP UFT Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

HP Unified Functional Testing (UFT), formerly QuickTest Professional (QTP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring HP UFT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited HP UFT 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 295 340 464
Rank change year-on-year +45 +124 +150
Contract jobs citing HP UFT 9 5 13
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.091% 0.033% 0.050%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.61% 0.27% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 10
10th Percentile £285 - £398
25th Percentile £312 £513 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £361 £569 £500
Median % change year-on-year -36.62% +13.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £402 £619 £625
90th Percentile £402 - £658
UK median daily rate £510 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -5.58% +8.00% +11.11%

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

HP UFT falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,482 1,853 3,954
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 14.96% 12.08% 15.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,324 2,836
10th Percentile £340 £360 £395
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -5.09% +2.86%
75th Percentile £615 £600 £650
90th Percentile £750 £700 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 43 114
10th Percentile £27.28 £28.99 £45.00
25th Percentile £58.81 £47.38 £54.06
Median hourly rate £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +30.00%
75th Percentile £80.38 £90.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.25 - £81.75
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £65.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.69% +21.78%

HP UFT
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

HP UFT trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

HP UFT
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

HP UFT daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

HP UFT
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

HP UFT daily rate histogram 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Apigee
1 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
1 1 (11.11%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Selenium
2 4 (44.44%) Cypress.io
2 4 (44.44%) Jenkins
2 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 4 (44.44%) JUnit
2 4 (44.44%) TestComplete
3 3 (33.33%) CA Release Automation
3 3 (33.33%) Gradle
3 3 (33.33%) IntelliJ
3 3 (33.33%) Maven
3 3 (33.33%) NetBeans
3 3 (33.33%) Subversion
4 1 (11.11%) Appium
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) Postman
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) Robot Framework
General
1 4 (44.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Banking
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Analyst
1 6 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Automation Test Analyst
3 4 (44.44%) Automation Tester
3 4 (44.44%) Java Automation Tester
3 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
3 4 (44.44%) Tester
4 2 (22.22%) Developer
4 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
5 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) Playwright
2 4 (44.44%) .NET
2 4 (44.44%) Kafka
3 3 (33.33%) Hibernate
3 3 (33.33%) J2EE
3 3 (33.33%) Spring
3 3 (33.33%) Spring Boot
3 3 (33.33%) Spring Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Spring MVC
3 3 (33.33%) Web Services
4 2 (22.22%) Ajax
4 2 (22.22%) AngularJS
4 2 (22.22%) Bootstrap
4 2 (22.22%) CSS
4 2 (22.22%) HTML
4 2 (22.22%) HTML5
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Structures
2 2 (22.22%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 6 (66.67%) Open Source
3 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
3 4 (44.44%) OO
3 4 (44.44%) OOP
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 4 (44.44%) System Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) API Development
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Data Transformation
4 3 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
4 3 (33.33%) MVC
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Microservices
5 2 (22.22%) Pair Programming
5 2 (22.22%) Responsive Web Design
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Java
2 6 (66.67%) JavaScript
3 5 (55.56%) Python
4 4 (44.44%) C#
5 2 (22.22%) TypeScript
6 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet
2 1 (11.11%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Bloomberg
1 4 (44.44%) Reuters
2 3 (33.33%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (11.11%) Splunk