Software Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Software 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 Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software 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 156 185 187
Rank change year-on-year +29 +2 +22
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 197 328 656
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 1.31% 1.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.45% 1.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 214 413
10th Percentile £342 £285 £338
25th Percentile £408 £375 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £581 £550
90th Percentile £688 £685 £649
UK median daily rate £464 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.25% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 32 28
10th Percentile - - £22.68
25th Percentile £19.25 £42.50 £39.69
Median hourly rate £29.00 £47.50 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -38.95% -2.64% -4.80%
75th Percentile £31.13 £57.81 £58.18
90th Percentile £36.64 £68.75 £65.54
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software 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%

Software Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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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 Software Testing.

Software Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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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 Software Testing.

Software Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Testing hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software 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 5 (2.54%) CMS
1 5 (2.54%) Confluence
2 3 (1.52%) Headless CMS
2 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.52%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.52%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.51%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.52%) Endur
2 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (18.78%) Azure
2 33 (16.75%) AWS
3 20 (10.15%) Azure DevOps
4 15 (7.61%) GitHub
5 6 (3.05%) GitHub Actions
5 6 (3.05%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.03%) GCP
6 4 (2.03%) SaaS
7 3 (1.52%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.02%) IaaS
8 2 (1.02%) PaaS
8 2 (1.02%) Serverless
8 2 (1.02%) Tricentis Tosca
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.51%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.51%) Boomi
9 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.51%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.51%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.52%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.02%) 4G
2 2 (1.02%) 5G
2 2 (1.02%) Internet
2 2 (1.02%) Network Security
2 2 (1.02%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.63%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (6.60%) Oracle Database
2 13 (6.60%) Oracle Database 11g
3 12 (6.09%) SQL Server
4 9 (4.57%) MySQL
5 6 (3.05%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.54%) NoSQL
6 5 (2.54%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 4 (2.03%) Apache Cassandra
7 4 (2.03%) Couchbase
7 4 (2.03%) Data Warehouse
8 3 (1.52%) Data Lake
8 3 (1.52%) Power BI
9 2 (1.02%) MariaDB
9 2 (1.02%) MongoDB
10 1 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (16.24%) Selenium
2 29 (14.72%) Git
3 18 (9.14%) Jenkins
3 18 (9.14%) JIRA
4 12 (6.09%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.58%) Postman
5 11 (5.58%) WebDriver
6 9 (4.57%) REST Assured
6 9 (4.57%) TestNG
7 8 (4.06%) JMeter
8 7 (3.55%) JUnit
9 6 (3.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 6 (3.05%) Visual Studio
10 5 (2.54%) Appium
10 5 (2.54%) Bitbucket
10 5 (2.54%) Cypress.io
10 5 (2.54%) SpecFlow
11 4 (2.03%) GitLab
12 3 (1.52%) Katalon Studio
12 3 (1.52%) SOAtest
General
1 55 (27.92%) Social Skills
2 40 (20.30%) Finance
3 21 (10.66%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 14 (7.11%) Banking
5 10 (5.08%) Back Office
6 8 (4.06%) Electronics
6 8 (4.06%) Investment Banking
7 6 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (3.05%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.05%) Marketing
7 6 (3.05%) Telecoms
8 5 (2.54%) Retail
9 4 (2.03%) Corporate Banking
9 4 (2.03%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.52%) Automotive
10 3 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (1.52%) Front Office
10 3 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (1.02%) Military
Job Titles
1 43 (21.83%) Developer
2 35 (17.77%) Analyst
3 26 (13.20%) Test Engineer
4 24 (12.18%) Senior
5 20 (10.15%) Test Analyst
6 17 (8.63%) Test Manager
7 15 (7.61%) Lead
8 13 (6.60%) PostgreSQL Developer
9 12 (6.09%) Tester
10 10 (5.08%) Software Developer
10 10 (5.08%) Software Engineer
10 10 (5.08%) Test Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.57%) SQL Developer
12 7 (3.55%) Business Analyst
12 7 (3.55%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (3.05%) Developer in Test
13 6 (3.05%) React Developer
13 6 (3.05%) Senior Test Analyst
13 6 (3.05%) Senior Test Engineer
13 6 (3.05%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.11%) Web Services
2 11 (5.58%) .NET
2 11 (5.58%) REST
3 10 (5.08%) RESTful
4 9 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 9 (4.57%) SOAP
5 8 (4.06%) React
6 7 (3.55%) GraphQL
6 7 (3.55%) XML
7 6 (3.05%) CSS
7 6 (3.05%) Spring Boot
8 5 (2.54%) .NET Framework
8 5 (2.54%) Gherkin
8 5 (2.54%) HTML
8 5 (2.54%) jQuery
8 5 (2.54%) Spring
8 5 (2.54%) Struts
8 5 (2.54%) Twitter Bootstrap
9 4 (2.03%) Playwright
9 4 (2.03%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.05%) Mobile App
1 6 (3.05%) Product Ownership
2 4 (2.03%) Data Centre
2 4 (2.03%) Greenfield Project
2 4 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (1.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (1.52%) Life Science
3 3 (1.52%) Management Information System
3 3 (1.52%) NHS
3 3 (1.52%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.02%) Clustering
4 2 (1.02%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (1.02%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.02%) Equities
4 2 (1.02%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.02%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.51%) Blockchain
5 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.51%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (0.51%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 18 (9.14%) Linux
2 15 (7.61%) Windows
3 6 (3.05%) zOS
4 5 (2.54%) Unix
5 4 (2.03%) Android
6 3 (1.52%) Embedded Linux
7 1 (0.51%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (44.16%) Test Automation
2 85 (43.15%) Agile
3 55 (27.92%) DevOps
4 42 (21.32%) Software Engineering
5 35 (17.77%) Test Strategy
6 32 (16.24%) Problem-Solving
6 32 (16.24%) Test Scripting
7 31 (15.74%) User Acceptance Testing
8 30 (15.23%) Unit Testing
9 27 (13.71%) SDLC
10 26 (13.20%) CI/CD
11 24 (12.18%) Continuous Integration
11 24 (12.18%) SDET
12 23 (11.68%) Migration
13 22 (11.17%) Scrum
14 20 (10.15%) Manual Testing
15 18 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
15 18 (9.14%) End-to-End Testing
16 17 (8.63%) Data Migration
17 16 (8.12%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 45 (22.84%) SQL
2 37 (18.78%) Java
3 33 (16.75%) Python
4 23 (11.68%) JavaScript
5 18 (9.14%) PL/SQL
6 17 (8.63%) TypeScript
7 16 (8.12%) C#
8 8 (4.06%) Bash
9 7 (3.55%) C++
10 6 (3.05%) JCL
11 5 (2.54%) PowerShell
12 4 (2.03%) Bourne shell
12 4 (2.03%) Go
12 4 (2.03%) Korn
12 4 (2.03%) Kotlin
12 4 (2.03%) Perl
12 4 (2.03%) REXX
13 2 (1.02%) Ruby
13 2 (1.02%) VB
13 2 (1.02%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (22.84%) Security Cleared
2 39 (19.80%) SC Cleared
3 27 (13.71%) Degree
4 23 (11.68%) ISTQB
5 10 (5.08%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.55%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (3.05%) ISEB
8 3 (1.52%) Numerate Degree
9 2 (1.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.02%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.51%) A+ Certification
10 1 (0.51%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.51%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.51%) MCSE
10 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.51%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (0.51%) PhD
10 1 (0.51%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.51%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.21%) QA
2 5 (2.54%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.52%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.52%) WCAG
4 2 (1.02%) Automotive SPICE
4 2 (1.02%) AUTOSAR
4 2 (1.02%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (1.02%) GDPR
4 2 (1.02%) HL7
5 1 (0.51%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.51%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 6 (3.05%) NFS
1 6 (3.05%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (2.03%) Docker
3 3 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.52%) VirtualBox
4 1 (0.51%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (3.05%) Ansible
1 6 (3.05%) Kubernetes
1 6 (3.05%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (1.02%) Microsoft Clustering
2 2 (1.02%) Opsgenie
2 2 (1.02%) Terraform
3 1 (0.51%) Grafana
3 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.51%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.51%) SCCM
3 1 (0.51%) WSUS
Vendors
1 32 (16.24%) Oracle
2 19 (9.64%) Microsoft
3 10 (5.08%) IBM
4 6 (3.05%) Broadcom
4 6 (3.05%) Brocade
4 6 (3.05%) CA
4 6 (3.05%) Dell
4 6 (3.05%) SAP
5 4 (2.03%) Splunk
6 3 (1.52%) Databricks
6 3 (1.52%) Micro Focus
6 3 (1.52%) OpenLink
6 3 (1.52%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.02%) Dynatrace
7 2 (1.02%) Murex
7 2 (1.02%) PagerDuty
7 2 (1.02%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.02%) Siemens
7 2 (1.02%) Sybase
8 1 (0.51%) Talend