Smoke Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity 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 Smoke Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Smoke Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 - 605
Rank change year-on-year - - -127
Contract jobs citing Smoke Testing 5 0 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% - 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% - 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 11
10th Percentile £479 - £375
25th Percentile £505 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £631 - £450
75th Percentile £738 - £538
90th Percentile - - £688
UK median daily rate £544 £600 £475
% change year-on-year -9.38% +26.32% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Smoke 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 13,215 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.97% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,849 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 522 532
10th Percentile £15.02 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.38 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Smoke Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Smoke Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Smoke 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 Smoke Testing.

Smoke Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Smoke Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Smoke Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Smoke Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Smoke 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) OCI
2 1 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) MSI
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) UAT Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Applications Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) IAM Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Business Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (20.00%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) LDAP
1 1 (20.00%) OAuth
1 1 (20.00%) OpenID
1 1 (20.00%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Order to Cash
2 2 (40.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 2 (40.00%) RBAC
2 2 (40.00%) Record to Report
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Application Discovery
3 1 (20.00%) Application Packaging
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Blue Prism
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) Citrix
2 1 (20.00%) Ping Identity