Software Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Software Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing 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 192 165 188
Rank change year-on-year -27 +23 -2
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 112 194 342
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.13% 1.26% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.24% 1.44% 1.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 139 221
10th Percentile £313 £338 £285
25th Percentile £363 £406 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £463 £475
Median % change year-on-year -6.76% -2.63% -1.04%
75th Percentile £494 £600 £588
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £444 £455 £500
% change year-on-year -2.42% -9.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 35
10th Percentile £56.00 - -
25th Percentile £61.25 £19.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £29.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.52% -35.56% -8.16%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.13 £58.13
90th Percentile £84.00 £36.64 £68.75
UK median hourly rate £61.50 £62.50 £52.74
% change year-on-year -1.60% +18.52% +7.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Software Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Software Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Software Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Software Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Software Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

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 10 (8.93%) Confluence
2 3 (2.68%) CMS
2 3 (2.68%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.79%) SAS
4 1 (0.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.68%) Trello
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.89%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (1.79%) Misys Midas
1 2 (1.79%) SAP MM
1 2 (1.79%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.89%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.89%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 25 (22.32%) AWS
1 25 (22.32%) Azure
2 19 (16.96%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (4.46%) GitHub
4 4 (3.57%) GCP
5 3 (2.68%) Serverless
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Event Grid
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.79%) Azure Pipelines
6 2 (1.79%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.79%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.89%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (0.89%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (0.89%) AWS Fargate
7 1 (0.89%) Miro
7 1 (0.89%) npm
7 1 (0.89%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.89%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.68%) SNMP
1 3 (2.68%) Software-Defined Radio
2 1 (0.89%) 4G
2 1 (0.89%) 5G
2 1 (0.89%) 5G NR
2 1 (0.89%) DNS
2 1 (0.89%) Ethernet
2 1 (0.89%) HTTP
2 1 (0.89%) LTE
2 1 (0.89%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (0.89%) SSL
2 1 (0.89%) VPN
2 1 (0.89%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.04%) Oracle Database
1 9 (8.04%) PostgreSQL
1 9 (8.04%) SQL Server
2 6 (5.36%) MS Access
2 6 (5.36%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (3.57%) RDBMS
3 4 (3.57%) Relational Database
4 3 (2.68%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (2.68%) DB2
4 3 (2.68%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.68%) Redis
5 2 (1.79%) IDMS
5 2 (1.79%) InterSystems Cache
6 1 (0.89%) Amazon Redshift
6 1 (0.89%) MySQL
6 1 (0.89%) Power BI
6 1 (0.89%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 22 (19.64%) JIRA
2 15 (13.39%) Git
3 13 (11.61%) Jenkins
4 11 (9.82%) JMeter
4 11 (9.82%) Selenium
5 9 (8.04%) GitLab
6 8 (7.14%) Cypress.io
6 8 (7.14%) QARun
6 8 (7.14%) WinRunner
7 7 (6.25%) Bitbucket
8 6 (5.36%) Gatling
8 6 (5.36%) Postman
9 5 (4.46%) JUnit
9 5 (4.46%) REST Assured
9 5 (4.46%) SpecFlow
10 4 (3.57%) Appium
10 4 (3.57%) HP UFT
10 4 (3.57%) LoadRunner
10 4 (3.57%) NeoLoad
10 4 (3.57%) TestComplete
General
1 45 (40.18%) Social Skills
2 28 (25.00%) Finance
3 14 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 10 (8.93%) Banking
5 9 (8.04%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.57%) Military
7 3 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.68%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.79%) Investment Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Advertising
9 1 (0.89%) Avionics
9 1 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Electronics
9 1 (0.89%) German Language
9 1 (0.89%) Marketing
9 1 (0.89%) Retail
9 1 (0.89%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (17.86%) Analyst
2 19 (16.96%) Developer
2 19 (16.96%) Test Analyst
3 13 (11.61%) Tester
4 12 (10.71%) Senior
4 12 (10.71%) Software Engineer
5 9 (8.04%) Lead
5 9 (8.04%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) Software Test Engineer
6 8 (7.14%) UAT Analyst
6 8 (7.14%) UAT Test Analyst
7 7 (6.25%) Automation Tester
7 7 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Developer in Test
8 6 (5.36%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.36%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Senior Test Analyst
8 6 (5.36%) Software Developer
8 6 (5.36%) Test Leader
9 5 (4.46%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (10.71%) Playwright
2 9 (8.04%) Kafka
3 8 (7.14%) Web Services
4 7 (6.25%) .NET
4 7 (6.25%) Middleware
5 6 (5.36%) CSS
5 6 (5.36%) HTML
5 6 (5.36%) React
5 6 (5.36%) Spring
6 5 (4.46%) AngularJS
6 5 (4.46%) REST
6 5 (4.46%) Spring Boot
7 4 (3.57%) Play Framework
7 4 (3.57%) Swagger
8 3 (2.68%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.68%) GraphQL
8 3 (2.68%) JPA
8 3 (2.68%) Node.js
8 3 (2.68%) Spring MVC
9 2 (1.79%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.68%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.79%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.79%) Data Structures
3 2 (1.79%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.79%) Legacy Applications
3 2 (1.79%) Life Science
3 2 (1.79%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.89%) Device Driver
4 1 (0.89%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.89%) Equities
4 1 (0.89%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.89%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.89%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.89%) PCIe
4 1 (0.89%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.89%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.89%) STB
Operating Systems
1 15 (13.39%) Windows
2 11 (9.82%) Linux
2 11 (9.82%) Unix
3 1 (0.89%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (0.89%) FreeRTOS
3 1 (0.89%) Kali Linux
3 1 (0.89%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
3 1 (0.89%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (50.89%) Agile
2 46 (41.07%) Test Automation
3 42 (37.50%) DevOps
4 39 (34.82%) Problem-Solving
5 23 (20.54%) CI/CD
6 20 (17.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (16.96%) Software Engineering
8 18 (16.07%) Logistics
9 17 (15.18%) Microservices
9 17 (15.18%) Scrum
10 16 (14.29%) Test Strategy
11 15 (13.39%) Collaborative Culture
11 15 (13.39%) User Acceptance Testing
11 15 (13.39%) Waterfall
12 14 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (12.50%) Integration Testing
12 14 (12.50%) Migration
12 14 (12.50%) Performance Testing
12 14 (12.50%) Test Scripting
13 13 (11.61%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.11%) Java
2 26 (23.21%) JavaScript
3 22 (19.64%) Python
3 22 (19.64%) SQL
4 21 (18.75%) C#
5 12 (10.71%) TypeScript
6 10 (8.93%) C++
7 6 (5.36%) PL/SQL
8 5 (4.46%) Ruby
9 4 (3.57%) PHP
9 4 (3.57%) Scala
9 4 (3.57%) VB
10 3 (2.68%) Groovy
10 3 (2.68%) Shell Script
11 2 (1.79%) ABAP
11 2 (1.79%) C
11 2 (1.79%) Go
11 2 (1.79%) JCL
11 2 (1.79%) MUMPS
12 1 (0.89%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (44.64%) Security Cleared
2 47 (41.96%) SC Cleared
3 6 (5.36%) Degree
4 3 (2.68%) DV Cleared
4 3 (2.68%) ISTQB
5 2 (1.79%) ISEB
5 2 (1.79%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (1.79%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.89%) CEH
6 1 (0.89%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.89%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.89%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (30.36%) QA
2 2 (1.79%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.79%) Def Stans
2 2 (1.79%) MISRA
2 2 (1.79%) MISRA C
3 1 (0.89%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (5.36%) Docker
2 3 (2.68%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.89%) Hyper-V
3 1 (0.89%) Microcode
3 1 (0.89%) NFS
3 1 (0.89%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 9 (8.04%) Kubernetes
2 5 (4.46%) Terraform
3 4 (3.57%) Perfmon
4 3 (2.68%) Ansible
5 1 (0.89%) Grafana
5 1 (0.89%) Nessus
5 1 (0.89%) Nmap
5 1 (0.89%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.89%) QRadar
5 1 (0.89%) SCCM
5 1 (0.89%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (12.50%) Oracle
2 10 (8.93%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.36%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.36%) Citrix
3 6 (5.36%) Dynatrace
4 5 (4.46%) Google
5 4 (3.57%) Bloomberg
5 4 (3.57%) New Relic
5 4 (3.57%) Reuters
5 4 (3.57%) Splunk
6 3 (2.68%) SAP
6 3 (2.68%) Sybase
7 2 (1.79%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (1.79%) Talend
7 2 (1.79%) VMware
8 1 (0.89%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.89%) Denodo
8 1 (0.89%) Nokia
8 1 (0.89%) QAD
8 1 (0.89%) Remedy