End-to-End Testing Contracts in England

End-to-End Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for End-to-End Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 328 331 324
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 -4
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 209 354 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.73% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.81% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 229 399
10th Percentile £321 £354 £363
25th Percentile £412 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £588
90th Percentile £738 £788 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +16.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile - £24.33 £25.20
25th Percentile - £28.94 £25.50
Median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -31.54%
75th Percentile £29.38 £44.94 £49.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £49.18 £52.35
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -31.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

End-to-End 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 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in England

End-to-End 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 End-to-End Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
London +21 121 £533 -7.39% 39
South East +26 39 £450 -10.00% 17
North of England -1 24 £500 -11.50% 8
North West +22 16 £581 +16.25% 5
East Midlands +20 13 £400 -44.56% 4
Midlands +11 13 £400 -28.57% 12
Yorkshire +5 7 £436 -30.24% 2
South West -10 7 £638 +18.09% 7
East of England +3 1 £375 -49.53% 6
North East -10 1 £395 -30.09% 1
End-to-End Testing
UK

End-to-End 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 16 (7.66%) Confluence
2 6 (2.87%) CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Headless CMS
3 3 (1.44%) Tornado
3 3 (1.44%) Umbraco
4 2 (0.96%) Apache
4 2 (0.96%) IIS
4 2 (0.96%) JBoss
5 1 (0.48%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.48%) Jupyter
Applications
1 4 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.44%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (3.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 7 (3.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.39%) Oracle AGIS
2 5 (2.39%) Oracle Assets
2 5 (2.39%) Oracle General Ledger
2 5 (2.39%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (1.91%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (1.91%) SAP ERP
3 4 (1.91%) SAP Payroll
3 4 (1.91%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.96%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Internet Expenses
4 2 (0.96%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.48%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.48%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.70%) AWS
2 28 (13.40%) Azure
3 12 (5.74%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (5.74%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
4 11 (5.26%) Amazon SQS
5 10 (4.78%) Amazon S3
6 9 (4.31%) Amazon EKS
7 8 (3.83%) Amazon ECR
7 8 (3.83%) Route 53
7 8 (3.83%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 5 (2.39%) Amazon ECS
8 5 (2.39%) Power Platform
8 5 (2.39%) Serverless
8 5 (2.39%) SuccessFactors
9 4 (1.91%) GitHub
9 4 (1.91%) IBM Blueworks
9 4 (1.91%) Lucidchart
10 3 (1.44%) Apigee
10 3 (1.44%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.39%) SSL
3 1 (0.48%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (8.13%) NoSQL
2 12 (5.74%) PostgreSQL
2 12 (5.74%) Relational Database
3 11 (5.26%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.83%) Elasticsearch
5 5 (2.39%) MySQL
5 5 (2.39%) Power BI
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
6 3 (1.44%) Amazon Redshift
6 3 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.96%) DB2
8 1 (0.48%) Amazon Athena
8 1 (0.48%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.48%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.48%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.48%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.48%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 34 (16.27%) JIRA
2 21 (10.05%) Git
3 14 (6.70%) Jenkins
3 14 (6.70%) Selenium
4 12 (5.74%) Cucumber
5 11 (5.26%) webpack
6 10 (4.78%) Cypress.io
6 10 (4.78%) GitLab
6 10 (4.78%) JUnit
7 8 (3.83%) Bitbucket
8 7 (3.35%) JMeter
8 7 (3.35%) TestRail
9 5 (2.39%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.91%) Artifactory
10 4 (1.91%) LoadRunner
10 4 (1.91%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (1.91%) TestNG
11 3 (1.44%) FitNesse
11 3 (1.44%) gulp
11 3 (1.44%) Maven
General
1 58 (27.75%) Social Skills
2 41 (19.62%) Finance
3 27 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (8.61%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.70%) Banking
6 12 (5.74%) Front Office
6 12 (5.74%) Marketing
7 10 (4.78%) Automotive
7 10 (4.78%) Telecoms
8 7 (3.35%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.35%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.39%) Electronics
9 5 (2.39%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.91%) Retail
11 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.44%) Retail Banking
11 3 (1.44%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 42 (20.10%) Developer
2 28 (13.40%) Analyst
3 24 (11.48%) Tester
4 23 (11.00%) Lead
5 22 (10.53%) Test Manager
6 17 (8.13%) Test Analyst
7 14 (6.70%) Senior
7 14 (6.70%) Test Engineer
8 10 (4.78%) Consultant
8 10 (4.78%) React Developer
8 10 (4.78%) Software Developer
8 10 (4.78%) Software Engineer
9 9 (4.31%) Manual Tester
9 9 (4.31%) Python Developer
10 7 (3.35%) Automation Tester
10 7 (3.35%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
10 7 (3.35%) Java Developer
10 7 (3.35%) Test Leader
11 6 (2.87%) Electronic Trading Developer
11 6 (2.87%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (14.35%) React
2 18 (8.61%) Node.js
3 17 (8.13%) Redux
3 17 (8.13%) RESTful
4 16 (7.66%) REST
5 12 (5.74%) CSS
5 12 (5.74%) FastAPI
5 12 (5.74%) HTML
5 12 (5.74%) WebSockets
6 10 (4.78%) .NET
7 9 (4.31%) ADO
8 8 (3.83%) Express.js
8 8 (3.83%) OAuth
8 8 (3.83%) Playwright
9 7 (3.35%) AngularJS
10 6 (2.87%) Reactive Extensions
10 6 (2.87%) Spring
10 6 (2.87%) Spring Boot
11 5 (2.39%) JPA
11 5 (2.39%) Spring Security
Miscellaneous
1 8 (3.83%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (2.87%) Management Information System
2 6 (2.87%) Product Ownership
2 6 (2.87%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.91%) Market Risk
3 4 (1.91%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.91%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.44%) Cloud Native
4 3 (1.44%) Data Centre
4 3 (1.44%) FMCG
4 3 (1.44%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.44%) Private Cloud
4 3 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (0.96%) Genomics
5 2 (0.96%) PKI
5 2 (0.96%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (0.96%) Solar Panel
5 2 (0.96%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.48%) Life Science
6 1 (0.48%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 24 (11.48%) Linux
2 11 (5.26%) Windows
3 10 (4.78%) Unix
4 4 (1.91%) Android
4 4 (1.91%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.91%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (0.96%) AIX
5 2 (0.96%) Solaris
5 2 (0.96%) VMS
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (42.58%) Agile
2 56 (26.79%) Test Automation
3 42 (20.10%) CI/CD
4 41 (19.62%) User Acceptance Testing
5 36 (17.22%) DevOps
5 36 (17.22%) Problem-Solving
6 34 (16.27%) Scenario Testing
7 33 (15.79%) Integration Testing
8 30 (14.35%) Software Testing
9 25 (11.96%) Test Strategy
10 24 (11.48%) Scrum
10 24 (11.48%) Test Scripting
11 23 (11.00%) Project Management
12 22 (10.53%) Functional Testing
12 22 (10.53%) System Integration Testing
12 22 (10.53%) Test Management
13 21 (10.05%) Software Engineering
14 20 (9.57%) Unit Testing
15 19 (9.09%) Waterfall
16 18 (8.61%) API Development
Programming Languages
1 51 (24.40%) SQL
2 44 (21.05%) Python
3 35 (16.75%) TypeScript
4 30 (14.35%) JavaScript
5 23 (11.00%) Java
6 15 (7.18%) C#
7 9 (4.31%) C++
8 5 (2.39%) C
8 5 (2.39%) PowerShell
9 3 (1.44%) Bash
9 3 (1.44%) Perl
9 3 (1.44%) Ruby
9 3 (1.44%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.48%) Go
10 1 (0.48%) Groovy
10 1 (0.48%) Jython
Qualifications
1 43 (20.57%) Security Cleared
2 39 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 28 (13.40%) Degree
4 22 (10.53%) ISTQB
5 11 (5.26%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (2.39%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.91%) CIPD
8 4 (1.91%) ISEB
9 3 (1.44%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.44%) HNC
9 3 (1.44%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.96%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 42 (20.10%) QA
2 8 (3.83%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.39%) GAAP
4 4 (1.91%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.91%) SLA
5 3 (1.44%) PMO
6 2 (0.96%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.96%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.96%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.48%) GDPR
System Software
1 15 (7.18%) Docker
2 4 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.91%) VirtualBox
3 2 (0.96%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.48%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (11.96%) Kubernetes
2 7 (3.35%) Grafana
2 7 (3.35%) Terraform
3 6 (2.87%) Ansible
4 3 (1.44%) Nagios
4 3 (1.44%) Progress Chef
4 3 (1.44%) Puppet
5 2 (0.96%) Istio
5 2 (0.96%) Tivoli
6 1 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.48%) Podman
Vendors
1 27 (12.92%) Oracle
1 27 (12.92%) SAP
2 16 (7.66%) Microsoft
3 7 (3.35%) Google
4 6 (2.87%) OpenAI
4 6 (2.87%) ServiceNow
4 6 (2.87%) Splunk
5 4 (1.91%) Databricks
5 4 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.44%) Adobe
6 3 (1.44%) Confluent
6 3 (1.44%) IBM
6 3 (1.44%) New Relic
6 3 (1.44%) OpenText
6 3 (1.44%) VMware
7 2 (0.96%) AppDynamics
7 2 (0.96%) F5
7 2 (0.96%) Murex
7 2 (0.96%) NEC
7 2 (0.96%) Optimizely