Scalability Testing Contracts

Scalability Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Scalability Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Scalability Testing over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 559 683 823
Rank change year-on-year +124 +140 -142
Contract jobs citing Scalability Testing 12 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.007% 0.024%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.033% 0.008% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 20
10th Percentile £510 £373 £325
25th Percentile £525 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% +6.25% -36.00%
75th Percentile £638 £469 £800
90th Percentile £649 £488 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £500 -
% change year-on-year +25.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Scalability 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 36,673 51,121 79,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.13% 89.77% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,631 35,432 55,673
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,683 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.99 £16.01 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.54
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -4.99%

Scalability Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Scalability Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Scalability Testing in the UK

Scalability Testing
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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 +116 9 £563 +12.50% 7
UK excluding London +65 8 £625 +25.00% 4
London - 4 £563 - 7
Work from Home +110 3 £588 +46.88% 4
North of England - 3 - -
North West - 3 - -
Scotland - 3 £625 -
South West - 2 - -

Scalability 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (25.00%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (8.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) Big Data
2 1 (8.33%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JMeter
2 3 (25.00%) LoadRunner
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Banking
3 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Lead
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Data Science Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Software Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 7 (58.33%) Test Automation
3 5 (41.67%) Non-Functional Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Analytics
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Security Testing
4 4 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Operational Stability
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Metrics
5 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (25.00%) Smart Manufacturing
5 3 (25.00%) Test Management
5 3 (25.00%) Test Planning
5 3 (25.00%) Translating Business Requirements
5 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (25.00%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 3 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) DV Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Master's Degree
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (8.33%) ISEB
3 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
1 3 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (8.33%) Databricks
2 1 (8.33%) Google