End-to-End Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

End-to-End 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 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 289 316 262
Rank change year-on-year +27 -54 -4
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 109 131 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.57% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.64% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 94 205
10th Percentile £313 £363 £352
25th Percentile £394 £420 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £524 £475
Median % change year-on-year -14.12% +10.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £638 £577 £525
90th Percentile £694 £668 £556
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile - - £37.90
25th Percentile - - £42.25
Median hourly rate £26.03 - £49.50
75th Percentile £29.38 - £51.88
90th Percentile £35.38 - £53.30
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,354 20,436 27,272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.24% 89.17% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,295 14,024 19,087
10th Percentile £250 £260 £240
25th Percentile £375 £400 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £579
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 2,139 1,241 1,336
10th Percentile £12.47 £10.63 £12.43
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% -4.88%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £62.38
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for End-to-End Testing in the UK excluding London

End-to-End 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 End-to-End Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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 +19 40 £450 -10.00% 9
Scotland +57 24 £400 +5.26% 5
North of England -5 22 £513 -9.29% 12
Midlands +19 13 £400 -33.33% 5
North West +18 13 £663 +32.50% 8
East Midlands +15 13 £400 -46.16% 1
Yorkshire +8 8 £463 -26.00% 3
South West -2 8 £638 +31.48% 11
Northern Ireland +4 2 - - 1
North East -10 1 £395 -30.09% 1
End-to-End Testing
UK

End-to-End 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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (14.68%) Confluence
2 7 (6.42%) Apache Spark
3 4 (3.67%) Apache
4 3 (2.75%) CMS
4 3 (2.75%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.92%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (3.67%) SAP ERP
1 4 (3.67%) SAP Payroll
1 4 (3.67%) SAP WM
2 3 (2.75%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.92%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.92%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 28 (25.69%) AWS
2 24 (22.02%) Azure
3 10 (9.17%) GCP
4 9 (8.26%) Amazon EC2
4 9 (8.26%) Amazon EKS
4 9 (8.26%) Amazon S3
5 8 (7.34%) Amazon ECR
5 8 (7.34%) Amazon SQS
5 8 (7.34%) Route 53
5 8 (7.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 6 (5.50%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (3.67%) SuccessFactors
8 3 (2.75%) Apigee
8 3 (2.75%) Datadog
9 2 (1.83%) PaaS
10 1 (0.92%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
10 1 (0.92%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (7.34%) TCP/IP
2 5 (4.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.34%) Elasticsearch
1 8 (7.34%) Relational Database
2 3 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (2.75%) Apache Cassandra
2 3 (2.75%) NoSQL
2 3 (2.75%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.92%) Amazon Athena
4 1 (0.92%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.92%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.92%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 27 (24.77%) JIRA
2 17 (15.60%) Jenkins
3 10 (9.17%) Git
4 9 (8.26%) GitLab
5 8 (7.34%) webpack
6 6 (5.50%) Bitbucket
6 6 (5.50%) Cucumber
6 6 (5.50%) Selenium
7 5 (4.59%) Maven
7 5 (4.59%) Postman
8 4 (3.67%) Artifactory
8 4 (3.67%) JUnit
8 4 (3.67%) TestRail
9 3 (2.75%) gulp
9 3 (2.75%) IntelliJ
9 3 (2.75%) Visual Studio
10 2 (1.83%) JMeter
10 2 (1.83%) NUnit
10 2 (1.83%) Tricentis qTest
11 1 (0.92%) SilkCentral
General
1 21 (19.27%) Social Skills
2 11 (10.09%) Automotive
3 10 (9.17%) Finance
4 7 (6.42%) Banking
5 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (4.59%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.67%) Marketing
7 3 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (2.75%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.75%) Tech for Good
8 2 (1.83%) Local Government
8 2 (1.83%) Military
9 1 (0.92%) Aviation
9 1 (0.92%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.92%) Games
9 1 (0.92%) German Language
9 1 (0.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 21 (19.27%) Developer
2 17 (15.60%) Java Developer
3 13 (11.93%) Test Manager
4 12 (11.01%) Analyst
4 12 (11.01%) Test Analyst
4 12 (11.01%) Test Engineer
5 8 (7.34%) Tester
6 7 (6.42%) Automation Tester
6 7 (6.42%) Consultant
6 7 (6.42%) Lead
7 6 (5.50%) Backend Developer
8 5 (4.59%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.67%) Business Manager
9 4 (3.67%) Software Development Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Software Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Systems Test Engineer
9 4 (3.67%) Technical Leader
9 4 (3.67%) Test Coordinator
9 4 (3.67%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (17.43%) RESTful
2 18 (16.51%) Kafka
3 14 (12.84%) Spring
3 14 (12.84%) Spring Boot
4 11 (10.09%) Node.js
5 10 (9.17%) .NET
6 8 (7.34%) Express.js
6 8 (7.34%) React
6 8 (7.34%) Redux
7 7 (6.42%) Elastic Stack
7 7 (6.42%) OpenTracing
8 4 (3.67%) Apache Camel
8 4 (3.67%) J2EE
8 4 (3.67%) REST
8 4 (3.67%) SOAP
8 4 (3.67%) XML
9 3 (2.75%) ASP.NET
9 3 (2.75%) CSS
9 3 (2.75%) HTML
9 3 (2.75%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (11.01%) Data Structures
2 9 (8.26%) Distributed Systems
3 6 (5.50%) Public Cloud
4 4 (3.67%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 3 (2.75%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.75%) Mobile App
5 3 (2.75%) Private Cloud
6 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.83%) Equities
6 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.83%) PKI
6 2 (1.83%) Product Ownership
7 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.92%) IoT
7 1 (0.92%) NHS
7 1 (0.92%) PlayStation
7 1 (0.92%) Robotics
7 1 (0.92%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.68%) Linux
2 8 (7.34%) Unix
3 7 (6.42%) Windows
4 4 (3.67%) Embedded Linux
5 3 (2.75%) Android
5 3 (2.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.83%) VMS
6 2 (1.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (37.61%) Test Automation
2 40 (36.70%) Agile
3 35 (32.11%) User Acceptance Testing
4 18 (16.51%) Project Management
5 16 (14.68%) Scenario Testing
5 16 (14.68%) System Integration Testing
6 15 (13.76%) CI/CD
6 15 (13.76%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (13.76%) Scrum
6 15 (13.76%) SDLC
6 15 (13.76%) Test Strategy
7 14 (12.84%) DevOps
7 14 (12.84%) Microservices
8 13 (11.93%) Software Testing
9 12 (11.01%) Integration Testing
9 12 (11.01%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (11.01%) System Testing
10 11 (10.09%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 11 (10.09%) Full Stack Development
10 11 (10.09%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 27 (24.77%) Java
2 19 (17.43%) SQL
3 11 (10.09%) Python
4 10 (9.17%) Kotlin
4 10 (9.17%) Scala
5 7 (6.42%) C#
5 7 (6.42%) C++
5 7 (6.42%) JavaScript
6 4 (3.67%) Shell Script
6 4 (3.67%) TypeScript
7 3 (2.75%) Bash
7 3 (2.75%) C
7 3 (2.75%) Perl
7 3 (2.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (2.75%) Ruby
8 2 (1.83%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.92%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 18 (16.51%) Degree
2 13 (11.93%) SC Cleared
2 13 (11.93%) Security Cleared
3 8 (7.34%) ISTQB
4 4 (3.67%) CIPD
4 4 (3.67%) HNC
4 4 (3.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 4 (3.67%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.83%) ISEB
5 2 (1.83%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (22.02%) QA
2 6 (5.50%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.59%) PMO
4 2 (1.83%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.92%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (16.51%) Docker
2 4 (3.67%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.67%) VirtualBox
3 3 (2.75%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (21.10%) Kubernetes
2 7 (6.42%) Prometheus
2 7 (6.42%) Zipkin
3 6 (5.50%) Ansible
4 4 (3.67%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (2.75%) Grafana
5 3 (2.75%) Nagios
5 3 (2.75%) Progress Chef
5 3 (2.75%) Puppet
5 3 (2.75%) Terraform
6 2 (1.83%) Kibana
Vendors
1 16 (14.68%) SAP
2 8 (7.34%) Oracle
3 6 (5.50%) Microsoft
3 6 (5.50%) Splunk
4 5 (4.59%) ServiceNow
5 3 (2.75%) Google
5 3 (2.75%) NEC
5 3 (2.75%) New Relic
5 3 (2.75%) OpenText
6 2 (1.83%) HP
7 1 (0.92%) Citrix
7 1 (0.92%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.92%) Confluent
7 1 (0.92%) IBM
7 1 (0.92%) Informatica
7 1 (0.92%) Northgate
7 1 (0.92%) Sony
7 1 (0.92%) StreamSets
7 1 (0.92%) UiPath
7 1 (0.92%) VMware