Remote Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Remote 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 Remote Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Remote Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 348 469 618
Rank change year-on-year +121 +149 -141
Contract jobs citing Remote Testing 4 1 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.026% 0.004% 0.036%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.004% 0.039%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 16
10th Percentile £404 - £419
25th Percentile £466 £331 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £338 £575
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -41.30% +21.05%
75th Percentile £553 £344 £589
90th Percentile £557 - £647
UK median daily rate £525 £406 £575
% change year-on-year +29.23% -29.35% +30.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Remote 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 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

Remote Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Remote Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Remote 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 Remote Testing.

Remote Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Remote Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Remote Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Remote Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Remote 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:

Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Figma
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Axure RP
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Designer
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce Designer
1 2 (50.00%) UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) HR Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Payroll Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior UX Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Coordinator
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Copywriting
2 2 (50.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) Interaction Design
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (50.00%) Psychology
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
2 2 (50.00%) User Research
2 2 (50.00%) UX Design
3 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Context-Driven Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Adobe
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow