Compatibility Testing Contracts in England

Compatibility Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Compatibility Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Compatibility Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 546 623 747
Rank change year-on-year +77 +124 -106
Contract jobs citing Compatibility Testing 5 14 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.014% 0.029% 0.043%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.016% 0.033% 0.047%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 23
10th Percentile £323 £410 £432
25th Percentile £339 £490 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% +27.27% +37.50%
75th Percentile £427 - £613
90th Percentile £444 - -
UK median daily rate £381 £700 £515
% change year-on-year -45.54% +35.92% +28.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Compatibility 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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Compatibility Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Compatibility Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Compatibility Testing in England

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Compatibility Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for Compatibility Testing in England

Compatibility Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Compatibility Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for Compatibility Testing in England

Compatibility Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +11 2 - - 1
London +85 1 - - 3
South West +6 1 £325 -18.75% 1
Compatibility Testing
UK

Compatibility Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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%) Adobe Experience Manager
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) WAAS
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) JMeter
1 1 (20.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (20.00%) Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Applications Packager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) .NET
1 1 (20.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 10
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) SDLC
2 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Black-Box Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) UX Design
3 1 (20.00%) V-Model
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (20.00%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft