Exploratory Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing 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 385 418 478
Rank change year-on-year +33 +60 -58
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 15 20 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.088% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.086% 0.098% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 33
10th Percentile - £380 £268
25th Percentile £350 £406 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 £463
Median % change year-on-year -10.81% - +12.12%
75th Percentile £456 £500 £500
90th Percentile £486 £582 £509
UK median daily rate £435 £481 £425
% change year-on-year -9.61% +13.24% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £51.63 -
25th Percentile - £52.19 £17.25
Median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +175.64% -34.91%
75th Percentile - £54.69 £21.75
90th Percentile - £54.88 -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £53.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year +16.28% +115.00% -10.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 17,348 20,314 27,218
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.29% 89.18% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,293 13,939 19,042
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% +9.18%
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 2,136 1,244 1,338
10th Percentile £12.45 £10.63 £12.47
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% -4.76%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.72 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £74.70 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Exploratory Testing in the UK excluding London

Exploratory 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 Exploratory Testing within the UK excluding London 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
Midlands +26 5 £400 - 1
North of England +26 5 £463 +1.37% 4
South East +8 5 £350 -12.50% 2
East Midlands - 5 £400 -
North West +24 4 £450 -10.00% 4
Yorkshire +18 1 £475 +15.15%
Exploratory Testing
UK

Exploratory 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 4 (26.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (6.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Serverless
2 1 (6.67%) SpeedCurve
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) JIRA
1 4 (26.67%) TestRail
2 2 (13.33%) Postman
3 1 (6.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.67%) Gatling
3 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 1 (6.67%) Pa11y
3 1 (6.67%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) SoapUI
3 1 (6.67%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (26.67%) Automotive
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Test Engineer
2 6 (40.00%) Automation Tester
2 6 (40.00%) Tester
3 4 (26.67%) Senior
3 4 (26.67%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (26.67%) Systems Test Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Unix Engineer
4 3 (20.00%) Unix Systems Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) QA Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) QA Automation Tester
6 1 (6.67%) QA Test Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
6 1 (6.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.67%) JSON
1 1 (6.67%) React
1 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
1 4 (26.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (93.33%) Test Automation
2 9 (60.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 9 (60.00%) Functional Testing
3 6 (40.00%) Agile
3 6 (40.00%) SDLC
3 6 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
4 5 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
4 5 (33.33%) Test Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (26.67%) Project Planning
5 4 (26.67%) Scrum
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
6 3 (20.00%) Active Listening
6 3 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
6 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (20.00%) Load Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Technology Transformation
7 2 (13.33%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Shell Script
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 3 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (6.67%) PHP
3 1 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
1 4 (26.67%) HNC
1 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
1 4 (26.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 4 (26.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) Accessibility
2 4 (26.67%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kibana
2 1 (6.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) ServiceNow