Test Assurance Contracts in England

Test Assurance
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 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 538 590 737
Rank change year-on-year +52 +147 -125
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 13 47 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.035% 0.099% 0.057%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.041% 0.11% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 31 30
10th Percentile £354 £413 £293
25th Percentile £389 £456 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £488 £463
Median % change year-on-year -11.28% +5.41% +2.78%
75th Percentile £469 £600 £559
90th Percentile £493 £612 £638
UK median daily rate £433 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -11.28% +5.41% +2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 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%

Test Assurance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Assurance in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Assurance in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Assurance in England

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance 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
London +87 11 £430 -20.00% 1
South East +4 2 £456 -3.95%
Test Assurance
UK

Test Assurance
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 2 (15.38%) Confluence
2 1 (7.69%) IIS
2 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.69%) GitHub
2 1 (7.69%) Miro
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) PuTTY
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) JIRA
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
1 4 (30.77%) Visual Studio
1 4 (30.77%) WebDriver
2 3 (23.08%) Appium
2 3 (23.08%) LoadRunner
2 3 (23.08%) Postman
2 3 (23.08%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.69%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (7.69%) SoapUI
3 1 (7.69%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 5 (38.46%) Public Sector
3 4 (30.77%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (23.08%) Back Office
4 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (7.69%) Automotive
5 1 (7.69%) Finance
5 1 (7.69%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
2 7 (53.85%) Test Analyst
3 5 (38.46%) Senior
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (30.77%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Junior Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) QA Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) QA Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Senior Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Software Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Software Test Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Strategy Analyst
5 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.69%) .NET Framework
2 1 (7.69%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.69%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Linux
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 3 (23.08%) Unix
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
4 1 (7.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Test Strategy
3 7 (53.85%) SDLC
3 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
4 6 (46.15%) Acceptance Criteria
4 6 (46.15%) Performance Testing
4 6 (46.15%) Software Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (38.46%) Functional Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Manual Testing
5 5 (38.46%) Non-Functional Testing
6 4 (30.77%) Test Management
6 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (15.38%) API Testing
8 2 (15.38%) BDD
8 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
8 2 (15.38%) Defect Management
8 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) C#
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 1 (7.69%) C++
2 1 (7.69%) Java
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
3 2 (15.38%) ISEB
4 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) Terminal Services
2 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) vRealize
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
1 4 (30.77%) Oracle
2 3 (23.08%) HP
2 3 (23.08%) IBM
3 1 (7.69%) Citrix
3 1 (7.69%) Red Hat
3 1 (7.69%) VMware