Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 207 264 241
Rank change year-on-year +57 -23 -30
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 153 231 479
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.99% 0.89% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.06% 0.93% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 172 398
10th Percentile £350 £285 £311
25th Percentile £363 £383 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.34% +0.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £502 £538 £532
90th Percentile £600 £613 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +7.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year - +176.92% -32.17%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £47.50
90th Percentile - - £59.95
UK median hourly rate £10.30 £72.00 £18.50
% change year-on-year -85.69% +289.19% -53.75%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,427 24,808 42,542
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.30% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,637 17,506 30,709
10th Percentile £325 £358 £355
25th Percentile £425 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £745 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 577 607
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.31 £12.85
25th Percentile £22.58 £26.25 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%

Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
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 Tester.

Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Tester over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
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 Tester.

Tester hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Tester in the job title.

1 73 (47.71%) Security Cleared
2 67 (43.79%) Test Automation
3 55 (35.95%) CREST Certified
4 53 (34.64%) Penetration Testing
4 53 (34.64%) OSCP
5 51 (33.33%) Mobile App
5 51 (33.33%) Web Services
6 50 (32.68%) GIAC
6 50 (32.68%) Cybersecurity
6 50 (32.68%) GPEN
6 50 (32.68%) Security Testing
6 50 (32.68%) Application Security
7 48 (31.37%) SaaS
7 48 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 48 (31.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
7 48 (31.37%) 5G
8 47 (30.72%) Virgin Media
8 47 (30.72%) SANS
8 47 (30.72%) GDPR
8 47 (30.72%) NCSC
8 47 (30.72%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (30.72%) Law
8 47 (30.72%) Broadband
8 47 (30.72%) PaaS
8 47 (30.72%) PCI DSS
8 47 (30.72%) OWASP
8 47 (30.72%) IaaS
9 30 (19.61%) Agile
10 27 (17.65%) Selenium
11 22 (14.38%) Java

Tester Skill Set
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 3 (1.96%) Confluence
2 2 (1.31%) IIS
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.31%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.65%) BASE24
Cloud Services
1 48 (31.37%) SaaS
2 47 (30.72%) IaaS
2 47 (30.72%) PaaS
3 17 (11.11%) AWS
4 14 (9.15%) Azure
5 10 (6.54%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.27%) GitHub
6 5 (3.27%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.61%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.96%) BrowserStack
8 3 (1.96%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon EKS
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.31%) Amazon SQS
9 2 (1.31%) BlazeMeter
9 2 (1.31%) Firebase
9 2 (1.31%) SAP Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.65%) Google Workspace
10 1 (0.65%) IBM Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (31.37%) 5G
2 47 (30.72%) Broadband
3 3 (1.96%) Wireless
4 1 (0.65%) 4G
4 1 (0.65%) ATM
4 1 (0.65%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.19%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.96%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.31%) Oracle Exadata
3 2 (1.31%) Power BI
4 1 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.65%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.65%) Parquet
4 1 (0.65%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 27 (17.65%) Selenium
2 16 (10.46%) Cypress.io
3 14 (9.15%) Cucumber
3 14 (9.15%) JMeter
4 12 (7.84%) Jenkins
5 10 (6.54%) WebDriver
6 8 (5.23%) Git
7 7 (4.58%) JIRA
7 7 (4.58%) Postman
7 7 (4.58%) REST Assured
8 6 (3.92%) JUnit
8 6 (3.92%) LoadRunner
8 6 (3.92%) SoapUI
9 5 (3.27%) GitLab
9 5 (3.27%) SpecFlow
9 5 (3.27%) TestNG
10 4 (2.61%) Maven
11 3 (1.96%) Appium
12 2 (1.31%) FitNesse
12 2 (1.31%) Mocha
General
1 47 (30.72%) Law
1 47 (30.72%) Organisational Skills
2 19 (12.42%) Social Skills
3 16 (10.46%) Finance
4 15 (9.80%) Banking
5 9 (5.88%) Investment Banking
6 7 (4.58%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.92%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (3.92%) Front Office
8 4 (2.61%) Back Office
9 2 (1.31%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.31%) Retail
9 2 (1.31%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (0.65%) Electronics
10 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.65%) Legal
10 1 (0.65%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.65%) Marketing
10 1 (0.65%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (33.33%) Web Services
2 9 (5.88%) REST
3 8 (5.23%) Playwright
4 6 (3.92%) Gherkin
5 5 (3.27%) .NET
6 4 (2.61%) Middleware
7 3 (1.96%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.96%) Chai
7 3 (1.96%) Jest
7 3 (1.96%) Node.js
8 2 (1.31%) JAXB
8 2 (1.31%) JAX-RS
8 2 (1.31%) JSON
8 2 (1.31%) OAuth
8 2 (1.31%) OpenID
8 2 (1.31%) RESTful
8 2 (1.31%) SOAP
8 2 (1.31%) Spring
8 2 (1.31%) WebdriverIO
8 2 (1.31%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 51 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 4 (2.61%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.31%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.31%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.31%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.65%) Cloud Native
4 1 (0.65%) Cyberattack
4 1 (0.65%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.65%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.65%) EMV
4 1 (0.65%) Equities
4 1 (0.65%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.65%) Reference Data
4 1 (0.65%) Replication
4 1 (0.65%) Robotics
4 1 (0.65%) Security Posture
4 1 (0.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (0.65%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 7 (4.58%) Windows
2 4 (2.61%) Linux
3 3 (1.96%) Unix
4 2 (1.31%) Solaris
5 1 (0.65%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (43.79%) Test Automation
2 53 (34.64%) Penetration Testing
3 50 (32.68%) Application Security
3 50 (32.68%) Cybersecurity
3 50 (32.68%) Security Testing
4 48 (31.37%) MITRE ATT&CK
4 48 (31.37%) Stakeholder Management
5 47 (30.72%) OWASP
6 30 (19.61%) Agile
7 21 (13.73%) Test Scripting
8 17 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (9.15%) Scrum
10 13 (8.50%) BDD
10 13 (8.50%) DevOps
10 13 (8.50%) Software Testing
11 12 (7.84%) API Testing
11 12 (7.84%) Test Strategy
12 11 (7.19%) Manual Testing
12 11 (7.19%) Performance Testing
12 11 (7.19%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 22 (14.38%) Java
2 18 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 18 (11.76%) Python
3 17 (11.11%) C#
4 12 (7.84%) SQL
5 9 (5.88%) TypeScript
6 4 (2.61%) C++
7 2 (1.31%) C
7 2 (1.31%) Scala
8 1 (0.65%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.65%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.65%) VB
8 1 (0.65%) VBA
Qualifications
1 73 (47.71%) Security Cleared
2 55 (35.95%) CREST Certified
3 53 (34.64%) OSCP
4 50 (32.68%) GIAC
4 50 (32.68%) GPEN
5 47 (30.72%) SANS
6 20 (13.07%) SC Cleared
7 4 (2.61%) Degree
7 4 (2.61%) DV Cleared
7 4 (2.61%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.96%) CEH
9 2 (1.31%) CHECK Team Leader
9 2 (1.31%) CHECK Team Member
9 2 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.31%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.65%) CISM
10 1 (0.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (30.72%) GDPR
1 47 (30.72%) NCSC
1 47 (30.72%) PCI DSS
2 19 (12.42%) QA
3 8 (5.23%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.96%) NIST
5 2 (1.31%) WCAG
6 1 (0.65%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.65%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (2.61%) Docker
2 3 (1.96%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.96%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.31%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.65%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 47 (30.72%) Virgin Media
2 12 (7.84%) Oracle
3 6 (3.92%) Microsoft
4 4 (2.61%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.96%) SAP
6 2 (1.31%) IBM
6 2 (1.31%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.31%) Wind River
7 1 (0.65%) FIS
7 1 (0.65%) Fiserv
7 1 (0.65%) Google
7 1 (0.65%) IBM Sterling
7 1 (0.65%) VocaLink
7 1 (0.65%) Wincor Nixdorf
7 1 (0.65%) WorldPay