Scalability Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Scalability Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Scalability Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Scalability Testing over the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 409 -
Rank change year-on-year +54 - -
Contract jobs citing Scalability Testing 14 4 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.084% 0.019% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.022% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 0
10th Percentile £350 - -
25th Percentile £375 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £435 - -
UK median daily rate £400 £438 £800
% change year-on-year -8.57% -45.31% +93.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Scalability Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,041 18,439 26,837
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.81% 88.33% 89.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,020 12,105 18,694
10th Percentile £250 £250 £260
25th Percentile £381 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £686 £688 £680
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 897 1,303 1,340
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.25 £12.66
25th Percentile £18.13 £17.72 £15.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.33 £28.90
Median % change year-on-year -19.22% +49.93% +60.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £63.38
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.50 £70.30
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £43.86 £35.00
% change year-on-year -17.92% +25.31% +66.67%

Scalability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Scalability Testing in the UK excluding London

Scalability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Scalability Testing in the UK excluding London

Scalability 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 Scalability Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 October 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 +47 8 £400 -20.00%
South West - 2 - -
East of England - 2 £400 -
North of England +28 1 - -
North West +25 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Scalability Testing
UK

Scalability 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 9 (64.29%) 4G
1 9 (64.29%) 5G
1 9 (64.29%) LTE
1 9 (64.29%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (64.29%) Robot Framework
2 1 (7.14%) JMeter
2 1 (7.14%) Selenium
General
1 11 (78.57%) Social Skills
2 10 (71.43%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (14.29%) Tester
2 1 (7.14%) Consultant
2 1 (7.14%) Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Java Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Java Software Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Performance Tester
2 1 (7.14%) QA Manager
2 1 (7.14%) Software Developer
2 1 (7.14%) Software Tester
2 1 (7.14%) Telecoms Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 11 (78.57%) Performance Testing
2 11 (78.57%) Test Planning
3 9 (64.29%) Stress Testing
3 9 (64.29%) Test Scripting
3 9 (64.29%) Validation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
5 2 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Regression Testing
6 1 (7.14%) SIEM
6 1 (7.14%) Smart Manufacturing
6 1 (7.14%) Software Engineering
6 1 (7.14%) Test Management
6 1 (7.14%) Translating Business Requirements
6 1 (7.14%) Unit Testing
6 1 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (78.57%) Python
2 2 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) SAP
1 1 (7.14%) Siemens