Test Assurance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 465 602
Rank change year-on-year +122 +137 -139
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 5 11 20
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.033% 0.043% 0.045%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.038% 0.048% 0.049%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 15
10th Percentile - £418 £364
25th Percentile £281 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -40.26% +6.94% -
75th Percentile £370 £547 £500
90th Percentile £415 £579 £511
UK median daily rate £435 £538 £475
% change year-on-year -19.07% +13.16% +2.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Test Assurance 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 13,319 22,924 40,623
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.76% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,917 16,193 29,494
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% +8.25%
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 575 527 541
10th Percentile £15.17 £18.67 £13.75
25th Percentile £24.63 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £75.15 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Test Assurance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Assurance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance.

Test Assurance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Assurance over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Test Assurance daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) Miro
1 1 (20.00%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (20.00%) JMeter
2 1 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Rational Performance Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) SpecFlow
2 1 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Junior
3 2 (40.00%) Junior Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Junior Test Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) Oracle Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) IT Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
4 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
4 1 (20.00%) Senior
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (20.00%) Playwright
2 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Unix
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Testing
3 2 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (40.00%) Test Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Coaching
4 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) Java
1 2 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) C++
2 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Oracle
2 1 (20.00%) HP
2 1 (20.00%) IBM