TestRail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gurock TestRail
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for TestRail skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TestRail over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 354 424 478
Rank change year-on-year +70 +54 -48
Contract jobs citing TestRail 40 25 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.11% 0.10%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.78% 0.78% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 24 29
10th Percentile £348 £430 £313
25th Percentile £450 £509 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £575 £648 £547
90th Percentile £610 £718 £584
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £495
% change year-on-year +4.76% +6.06% +32.00%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

TestRail is in the Development Applications 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 development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,243 3,202 4,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 11.05% 13.92% 14.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,462 2,258 3,178
10th Percentile £350 £342 £363
25th Percentile £413 £417 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +14.29%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £676 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 176 166 111
10th Percentile £40.94 £45.45 £38.68
25th Percentile £56.19 £52.50 £44.85
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £66.88
90th Percentile £79.59 £79.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for TestRail in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for TestRail in the UK excluding London

TestRail
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in the UK excluding London

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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 TestRail within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
South East +31 35 £550 +1.85% 6
Midlands +29 3 £400 -
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
South West +4 1 £360 -48.57% 1
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1
TestRail
UK

TestRail
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 9 (22.50%) Apache
1 9 (22.50%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (7.50%) Confluence
3 1 (2.50%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 9 (22.50%) BGP
1 9 (22.50%) Ethernet VPN
1 9 (22.50%) MPLS
1 9 (22.50%) Radio Access Network
1 9 (22.50%) VPN
2 3 (7.50%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (22.50%) MongoDB
1 9 (22.50%) NoSQL
1 9 (22.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.00%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (35.00%) JIRA
2 9 (22.50%) GitLab
2 9 (22.50%) Robot Framework
3 5 (12.50%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.50%) JMeter
4 1 (2.50%) Postman
General
1 5 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.50%) Automotive
3 1 (2.50%) Finance
3 1 (2.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (62.50%) Analyst
1 25 (62.50%) Test Analyst
2 20 (50.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 12 (30.00%) Test Engineer
4 8 (20.00%) Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Software Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Software Test Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Systems Test Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Tester
6 2 (5.00%) Unix Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Unix Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) Developer
7 1 (2.50%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (2.50%) Lead
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow Administrator
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow Developer
7 1 (2.50%) Telecoms Tester
7 1 (2.50%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (25.00%) REST
2 9 (22.50%) NETCONF
2 9 (22.50%) RESTCONF
2 9 (22.50%) SOAP
2 9 (22.50%) YANG
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.50%) Linux
1 3 (7.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (87.50%) Agile
2 34 (85.00%) Test Automation
3 22 (55.00%) Test Management
4 21 (52.50%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (35.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 13 (32.50%) Requirements Analysis
7 12 (30.00%) Scrum
8 9 (22.50%) CI/CD
8 9 (22.50%) Containerisation
8 9 (22.50%) Integration Testing
8 9 (22.50%) Performance Testing
8 9 (22.50%) Regression Testing
8 9 (22.50%) Security Testing
8 9 (22.50%) Unit Testing
8 9 (22.50%) Workflow
9 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
10 3 (7.50%) Functional Testing
10 3 (7.50%) Project Planning
10 3 (7.50%) SDLC
10 3 (7.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) Python
3 3 (7.50%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) ISTQB
2 25 (62.50%) Security Cleared
3 24 (60.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 21 (52.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
6 3 (7.50%) Degree
6 3 (7.50%) HNC
6 3 (7.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) QA
System Software
1 9 (22.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (7.50%) Oracle
2 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow