Agile Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Agile Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Agile Testing over the 6 months to 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 393 428 490
Rank change year-on-year +35 +62 -63
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 6 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.029% 0.044% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.035% 0.049% 0.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 17
10th Percentile £340 £363 £315
25th Percentile £363 £372 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £473
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% -7.41% +4.36%
75th Percentile £479 £506 £529
90th Percentile £526 £544 £570
UK median daily rate £449 £438 £483
% change year-on-year +2.63% -9.33% +5.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Agile 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,325 20,337 27,186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.38% 89.23% 89.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,289 13,953 19,001
10th Percentile £250 £260 £238
25th Percentile £375 £400 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,130 1,241 1,347
10th Percentile £12.42 £10.63 £12.38
25th Percentile £15.39 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.40
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.50 £62.35
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

Agile Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Agile Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Agile Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Agile Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Agile Testing in the UK excluding London

Agile Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
Scotland +40 4 £400 -20.00%
South East +9 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - -
North of England - 1 - -
Agile Testing
UK

Agile Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MariaDB
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Cucumber
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Equities
1 2 (33.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
3 4 (66.67%) Test Management
3 4 (66.67%) Test Planning
4 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 3 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Burndown Charts
5 2 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
5 2 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) PMO
2 1 (16.67%) Disclosure Scotland
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center