Data-Driven Testing Contracts

Data-Driven Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Data-Driven Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Data-Driven 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 572 679 827
Rank change year-on-year +107 +148 -104
Contract jobs citing Data-Driven Testing 3 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.005% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.006% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 9
10th Percentile £579 £589 £253
25th Percentile £584 £591 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £613 £440
Median % change year-on-year - +39.20% -2.22%
75th Percentile £634 £631 £595
90th Percentile £636 - £624
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £606 £400
% change year-on-year +1.03% +51.56% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Data-Driven 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,802 50,277 79,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.47% 89.69% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,632 34,811 55,790
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +9.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,530 1,673 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.72 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.76%

Data-Driven Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Data-Driven Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

Data-Driven Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Testing.

Daily rate trend for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

Data-Driven Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Data-Driven Testing.

Hourly rate trend for Data-Driven Testing in the UK

Data-Driven Testing
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data-Driven Testing within the UK 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
England +86 3 £613 - 2
UK excluding London +39 3 £613 +1.03% 2
South East +12 3 £613 +1.03%

Data-Driven Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (33.33%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Data Factory
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Key Vault
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Lead
1 2 (66.67%) Lead Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Data Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) AngularJS
1 2 (66.67%) CSS
1 2 (66.67%) HTML
1 2 (66.67%) Node.js
2 1 (33.33%) NumPy
2 1 (33.33%) Pandas
2 1 (33.33%) PySpark
2 1 (33.33%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) System Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) API Design
3 1 (33.33%) API Development
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (33.33%) Data Science
3 1 (33.33%) ETL
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (66.67%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks