End-to-End Testing Contracts

End-to-End Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 364 325
Rank change year-on-year +59 -39 +17
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 298 384 730
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.69% 0.66% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.74% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 259 519
10th Percentile £350 £362 £363
25th Percentile £411 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +16.96%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £591
90th Percentile £722 £775 £677
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £550 £475
% change year-on-year -13.64% +15.79% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile - £53.00 £25.20
25th Percentile - £54.50 £25.50
Median hourly rate £26.03 £57.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.33% +62.86% -22.22%
75th Percentile £29.38 £59.50 £49.50
90th Percentile £35.38 £61.00 £52.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.03 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +41.43%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

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

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing.

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

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

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

End-to-End Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing End-to-End Testing.

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

End-to-End Testing
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England -9 223 £500 -9.09% 67
London +35 134 £500 -14.35% 28
Work from Home +109 123 £500 - 37
UK excluding London +25 118 £475 -13.64% 43
South East +25 38 £463 -7.50% 10
Scotland +60 31 £450 +8.43% 7
North of England +7 28 £500 -11.50% 6
North West +35 21 £500 -2.44% 6
Midlands +17 15 £400 -27.27% 8
East Midlands +25 13 £400 -44.56% 3
Yorkshire +4 6 £434 -30.56%
South West -7 3 - - 6
Northern Ireland +7 2 - - 1
West Midlands +2 2 - - 5
East of England +5 1 £375 -49.53% 6
North East -8 1 £395 -30.09%

End-to-End 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 26 (8.72%) Confluence
2 7 (2.35%) Apache Spark
3 6 (2.01%) CMS
3 6 (2.01%) Tornado
4 5 (1.68%) Apache
5 4 (1.34%) IIS
5 4 (1.34%) JBoss
6 3 (1.01%) Headless CMS
6 3 (1.01%) Umbraco
7 2 (0.67%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 16 (5.37%) Oracle AGIS
1 16 (5.37%) Oracle Assets
2 15 (5.03%) Oracle EBS
2 15 (5.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 15 (5.03%) Oracle Payables
3 11 (3.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 8 (2.68%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (2.01%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (1.34%) SAP WM
7 2 (0.67%) Oracle Internet Expenses
8 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
8 1 (0.34%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.34%) NEC Housing
8 1 (0.34%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.47%) AWS
2 52 (17.45%) Azure
3 18 (6.04%) Dynamics 365
4 13 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
4 13 (4.36%) GCP
5 12 (4.03%) Amazon EC2
6 11 (3.69%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.69%) Amazon SQS
7 10 (3.36%) Amazon EKS
8 8 (2.68%) Amazon ECR
8 8 (2.68%) Route 53
8 8 (2.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 7 (2.35%) Serverless
10 6 (2.01%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (1.68%) Amazon ECS
11 5 (1.68%) GitHub
12 4 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
12 4 (1.34%) IBM Blueworks
12 4 (1.34%) Lucidchart
12 4 (1.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.35%) TCP/IP
2 5 (1.68%) SSL
3 3 (1.01%) 5G
4 1 (0.34%) HTTP
4 1 (0.34%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (7.38%) NoSQL
2 20 (6.71%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.70%) SQL Server
4 12 (4.03%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (2.68%) Elasticsearch
6 5 (1.68%) MySQL
7 4 (1.34%) DB2
7 4 (1.34%) MongoDB
7 4 (1.34%) Power BI
8 3 (1.01%) Amazon RDS
8 3 (1.01%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.01%) Apache Cassandra
8 3 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.67%) Amazon Athena
9 2 (0.67%) Apache Hive
9 2 (0.67%) Hadoop
10 1 (0.34%) Big Data
10 1 (0.34%) Data Lake
10 1 (0.34%) DynamoDB
10 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 60 (20.13%) JIRA
2 34 (11.41%) Git
3 31 (10.40%) Jenkins
4 27 (9.06%) Cucumber
5 20 (6.71%) JUnit
6 18 (6.04%) Selenium
7 14 (4.70%) Postman
8 11 (3.69%) Cypress.io
8 11 (3.69%) webpack
9 10 (3.36%) Bitbucket
9 10 (3.36%) GitLab
10 9 (3.02%) JMeter
11 8 (2.68%) TestRail
12 7 (2.35%) Maven
13 6 (2.01%) LoadRunner
13 6 (2.01%) TestNG
14 5 (1.68%) IntelliJ
14 5 (1.68%) SpecFlow
15 4 (1.34%) Team Foundation Server
15 4 (1.34%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (28.86%) Social Skills
2 65 (21.81%) Finance
3 40 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (8.05%) Banking
5 22 (7.38%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.37%) Marketing
7 15 (5.03%) General Ledger
8 13 (4.36%) Front Office
9 11 (3.69%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.36%) Automotive
10 10 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.35%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.01%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.68%) Electronics
13 5 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.34%) German Language
14 4 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.34%) Retail
15 3 (1.01%) Corporate Banking
15 3 (1.01%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 81 (27.18%) Developer
2 42 (14.09%) Analyst
3 31 (10.40%) Java Developer
4 29 (9.73%) Lead
5 27 (9.06%) Test Manager
6 25 (8.39%) Test Analyst
6 25 (8.39%) Tester
7 24 (8.05%) Senior
8 18 (6.04%) Architect
8 18 (6.04%) Test Engineer
9 14 (4.70%) Consultant
9 14 (4.70%) Python Developer
9 14 (4.70%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.70%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (4.03%) Oracle Architect
10 12 (4.03%) Oracle Solutions Architect
11 11 (3.69%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
11 11 (3.69%) Test Leader
12 10 (3.36%) React Developer
12 10 (3.36%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 37 (12.42%) React
2 34 (11.41%) RESTful
3 31 (10.40%) Kafka
4 29 (9.73%) REST
5 27 (9.06%) Spring
6 25 (8.39%) Spring Boot
7 21 (7.05%) FastAPI
7 21 (7.05%) Node.js
7 21 (7.05%) WebSockets
8 17 (5.70%) Redux
9 16 (5.37%) CSS
10 14 (4.70%) ADO
11 12 (4.03%) .NET
12 11 (3.69%) HTML
12 11 (3.69%) J2EE
12 11 (3.69%) OAuth
13 10 (3.36%) Apache Camel
14 9 (3.02%) Playwright
15 8 (2.68%) Express.js
15 8 (2.68%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.03%) Data Structures
1 12 (4.03%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.02%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.02%) Product Ownership
3 7 (2.35%) Public Cloud
4 6 (2.01%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.01%) Onboarding
5 5 (1.68%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.34%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.34%) FMCG
6 4 (1.34%) Market Risk
6 4 (1.34%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.01%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.01%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.01%) Solar Panel
8 2 (0.67%) Equities
8 2 (0.67%) PKI
8 2 (0.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (9.40%) Linux
2 13 (4.36%) Windows
3 12 (4.03%) Unix
4 4 (1.34%) AIX
4 4 (1.34%) Android
4 4 (1.34%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.34%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (1.34%) Solaris
5 2 (0.67%) VMS
5 2 (0.67%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.34%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (42.62%) Agile
2 81 (27.18%) Test Automation
3 64 (21.48%) User Acceptance Testing
4 61 (20.47%) CI/CD
5 51 (17.11%) DevOps
6 48 (16.11%) Scenario Testing
7 47 (15.77%) Integration Testing
8 45 (15.10%) Problem-Solving
9 43 (14.43%) Software Testing
9 43 (14.43%) Test Scripting
10 38 (12.75%) Continuous Integration
11 36 (12.08%) Test Strategy
12 34 (11.41%) Scrum
13 33 (11.07%) Test Management
14 31 (10.40%) Software Engineering
15 30 (10.07%) Unit Testing
16 27 (9.06%) Microservices
16 27 (9.06%) Project Management
17 26 (8.72%) Analytics
17 26 (8.72%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 74 (24.83%) SQL
2 57 (19.13%) Python
3 54 (18.12%) Java
4 41 (13.76%) TypeScript
5 37 (12.42%) JavaScript
6 17 (5.70%) C#
7 10 (3.36%) Kotlin
7 10 (3.36%) Scala
8 9 (3.02%) C++
9 6 (2.01%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.01%) PowerShell
10 5 (1.68%) C
11 3 (1.01%) Bash
11 3 (1.01%) Perl
11 3 (1.01%) Ruby
11 3 (1.01%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.67%) Groovy
13 1 (0.34%) Jython
13 1 (0.34%) VB
13 1 (0.34%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 51 (17.11%) Security Cleared
2 47 (15.77%) SC Cleared
3 30 (10.07%) Degree
4 23 (7.72%) ISTQB
5 11 (3.69%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 6 (2.01%) ISEB
8 5 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.01%) CTC Cleared
9 3 (1.01%) HNC
9 3 (1.01%) Master's Degree
10 2 (0.67%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 2 (0.67%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.34%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (16.78%) QA
2 15 (5.03%) GAAP
3 9 (3.02%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.01%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.68%) PMO
5 5 (1.68%) SLA
6 2 (0.67%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.67%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.67%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.34%) GDPR
System Software
1 29 (9.73%) Docker
2 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (1.34%) VirtualBox
3 3 (1.01%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.34%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (0.34%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.34%) XenApp
5 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 39 (13.09%) Kubernetes
2 9 (3.02%) Grafana
3 7 (2.35%) Prometheus
3 7 (2.35%) Terraform
3 7 (2.35%) Zipkin
4 6 (2.01%) Ansible
5 5 (1.68%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (1.34%) Kibana
6 4 (1.34%) Tivoli
7 3 (1.01%) HP ALM
7 3 (1.01%) Nagios
7 3 (1.01%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.01%) Puppet
8 2 (0.67%) Istio
9 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.34%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 50 (16.78%) Oracle
2 30 (10.07%) SAP
3 24 (8.05%) Microsoft
4 12 (4.03%) OpenAI
5 9 (3.02%) Salesforce
5 9 (3.02%) ServiceNow
6 8 (2.68%) Google
6 8 (2.68%) IBM
6 8 (2.68%) Splunk
7 7 (2.35%) Confluent
7 7 (2.35%) Databricks
8 5 (1.68%) HP
9 4 (1.34%) AppDynamics
9 4 (1.34%) F5
9 4 (1.34%) VMware
9 4 (1.34%) Workday
10 3 (1.01%) Adobe
10 3 (1.01%) Murex
10 3 (1.01%) New Relic
11 2 (0.67%) Dell