Hybrid/Remote Taurus Contract Job Trends

Taurus Test Automation Framework
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Taurus skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Taurus 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.009% - -
As % of the Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards category 0.033% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £455 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £460 - -

All Software Libraries and Frameworks
Work from Home

Taurus falls under the Software Libraries and Frameworks category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for technical specification, industry standards, software libraries and framework skills 2,987 2,559 3,759
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 25.50% 25.15% 23.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,974 1,861 2,614
10th Percentile £358 £363 £331
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 24 62
10th Percentile £42.00 £25.55 £20.99
25th Percentile £61.25 £41.38 £38.20
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +31.58% -26.92%
75th Percentile £70.00 £76.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.00 £97.11 £82.35
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £47.97
% change year-on-year +4.00% +30.30% -26.21%

Taurus
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Taurus and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Taurus job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Taurus
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Taurus.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Taurus

Taurus
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Test Leader
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Model Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (100.00%) Resilience Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Google
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft