End-to-End Testing Contracts in the South East

End-to-End Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 21 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 182 198
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 -17
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 39 34 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.71% 0.61% 0.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 0.68% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 21 51
10th Percentile £320 £400 £306
25th Percentile £394 £419 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +3.09% +19.75%
75th Percentile £663 £545 £588
90th Percentile £738 £675 £675
England median daily rate £500 £548 £500
% change year-on-year -8.76% +9.60% +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £26.03 - £35.00
75th Percentile £29.38 - -
90th Percentile £35.38 - -
England median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -31.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,602 4,986 6,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.21% 89.12% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,674 3,454 4,733
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% +1.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £599
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 441 218 278
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.63 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.77 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.73% +47.08% +8.70%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the South East

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the South East

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the South East

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the South East

End-to-End Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Surrey +25 12 £450 - 5
Hampshire +9 11 £625 +13.64%
Thames Valley -4 11 £425 -5.56% 4
Berkshire -18 7 £425 +1.49% 2
Oxfordshire +10 3 - -
West Sussex - 3 £193 - 1
Sussex -3 2 - -
Buckinghamshire +17 1 - - 2
End-to-End Testing
England

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 11 (28.21%) Confluence
2 2 (5.13%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (10.26%) SAP WM
2 1 (2.56%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (12.82%) AWS
2 4 (10.26%) Azure
3 3 (7.69%) Datadog
4 2 (5.13%) PaaS
5 1 (2.56%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.56%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.56%) Figma
5 1 (2.56%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 7 (17.95%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.13%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.69%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.13%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (30.77%) JIRA
2 7 (17.95%) Jenkins
3 6 (15.38%) Bitbucket
3 6 (15.38%) Git
4 4 (10.26%) Artifactory
5 3 (7.69%) TestRail
6 2 (5.13%) JMeter
6 2 (5.13%) Selenium
7 1 (2.56%) rollup.js
7 1 (2.56%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.56%) webpack
General
1 14 (35.90%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.64%) Automotive
3 6 (15.38%) Finance
4 5 (12.82%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.26%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.13%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.13%) Military
7 1 (2.56%) Aviation
7 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.56%) Games
7 1 (2.56%) German Language
7 1 (2.56%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (28.21%) Test Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Test Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Analyst
3 5 (12.82%) Test Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Business Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Development Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) ERP Analyst
4 4 (10.26%) Software Development Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Test Development Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.69%) Systems Test Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) C++ Software Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Change Manager
6 2 (5.13%) Consultant
6 2 (5.13%) Integration Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (5.13%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.38%) RESTful
2 4 (10.26%) SOAP
2 4 (10.26%) XML
3 2 (5.13%) .NET
3 2 (5.13%) .NET Core
3 2 (5.13%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.13%) Kafka
4 1 (2.56%) ADO
4 1 (2.56%) CSS
4 1 (2.56%) Enzyme
4 1 (2.56%) Jest
4 1 (2.56%) Next.js
4 1 (2.56%) React
4 1 (2.56%) Redux
4 1 (2.56%) Sass
Miscellaneous
1 5 (12.82%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.69%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.69%) Private Cloud
3 2 (5.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.13%) PKI
3 2 (5.13%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.56%) PlayStation
4 1 (2.56%) Robotics
4 1 (2.56%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 13 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (17.95%) Unix
2 7 (17.95%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Embedded Linux
4 2 (5.13%) VMS
4 2 (5.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (48.72%) Agile
2 13 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 9 (23.08%) Project Management
3 9 (23.08%) System Integration Testing
3 9 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (20.51%) Business Strategy
4 8 (20.51%) Software Testing
4 8 (20.51%) Technical Leadership
5 7 (17.95%) Open Source
5 7 (17.95%) Scrum
6 6 (15.38%) Computer Science
7 5 (12.82%) DevOps
7 5 (12.82%) Integration Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Logistics
7 5 (12.82%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (12.82%) Scenario Testing
8 4 (10.26%) API Testing
8 4 (10.26%) Commercial Awareness
8 4 (10.26%) SDET
8 4 (10.26%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) SQL
2 7 (17.95%) C++
2 7 (17.95%) Python
3 3 (7.69%) Bash
3 3 (7.69%) C
3 3 (7.69%) Java
3 3 (7.69%) Perl
3 3 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.69%) Ruby
3 3 (7.69%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.56%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (35.90%) Degree
2 5 (12.82%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.26%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
4 3 (7.69%) HNC
4 3 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (7.69%) Master's Degree
5 2 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.82%) QA
2 2 (5.13%) Accessibility
2 2 (5.13%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (10.26%) VirtualBox
2 3 (7.69%) Docker
3 2 (5.13%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (12.82%) Kubernetes
2 3 (7.69%) Ansible
2 3 (7.69%) Nagios
2 3 (7.69%) Progress Chef
2 3 (7.69%) Puppet
2 3 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (30.77%) SAP
2 6 (15.38%) Oracle
3 3 (7.69%) New Relic
3 3 (7.69%) Splunk
4 1 (2.56%) Adobe
4 1 (2.56%) Sony
4 1 (2.56%) UiPath