TestRail Contracts

Gurock TestRail
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 535 653 806
Rank change year-on-year +118 +153 -149
Contract jobs citing TestRail 65 60 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.10% 0.056%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.26% 0.67% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 47 44
10th Percentile £350 £443 £313
25th Percentile £413 £500 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £485
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +8.25% +29.33%
75th Percentile £608 £588 £591
90th Percentile £683 £713 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £540 £463
% change year-on-year +1.85% +16.76% +23.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,178 9,015 15,934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 11.88% 15.10% 17.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,476 6,340 11,249
10th Percentile £356 £385 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +12.02%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +16.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 246 214
10th Percentile £32.23 £45.00 £37.25
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £50.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +21.78% +12.22%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £62.15
90th Percentile £81.90 £78.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £54.50
% change year-on-year +5.69% +12.84% +21.11%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Top 12 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +113 61 £550 +5.06% 15
UK excluding London +81 44 £550 +1.85% 12
South East +36 38 £550 +4.76% 8
Work from Home +118 20 £595 +13.33% 7
London +103 17 £619 +23.75% 2
Midlands +28 3 £400 -17.95% 1
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
West Midlands +27 1 £525 +7.69% 1
South West +7 1 £360 -49.30% 1
East of England - 1 £641 - 1
North West - 1 £425 -
North of England - 1 £425 -

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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 13 (20.00%) Apache
1 13 (20.00%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (6.15%) Confluence
3 1 (1.54%) Appian
Business Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 6 (9.23%) AWS
2 3 (4.62%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.54%) Azure
3 1 (1.54%) GitHub
3 1 (1.54%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (1.54%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 13 (20.00%) BGP
1 13 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 13 (20.00%) MPLS
1 13 (20.00%) VPN
2 12 (18.46%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (3.08%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.54%) NFC
4 1 (1.54%) PPP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (18.46%) MongoDB
1 12 (18.46%) NoSQL
1 12 (18.46%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (12.31%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 33 (50.77%) JIRA
2 13 (20.00%) GitLab
2 13 (20.00%) Robot Framework
3 8 (12.31%) Git
3 8 (12.31%) JMeter
4 5 (7.69%) Cucumber
4 5 (7.69%) SpecFlow
5 4 (6.15%) FitNesse
5 4 (6.15%) LoadRunner
5 4 (6.15%) Postman
5 4 (6.15%) Selenium
6 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
6 2 (3.08%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.54%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.54%) Bugzilla
7 1 (1.54%) Gatling
7 1 (1.54%) GoogleTest
7 1 (1.54%) Mocha
7 1 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (1.54%) Valgrind
General
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (13.85%) Banking
3 8 (12.31%) Finance
4 5 (7.69%) Investment Banking
5 3 (4.62%) Back Office
5 3 (4.62%) Front Office
6 2 (3.08%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.08%) Automotive
7 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 30 (46.15%) Analyst
1 30 (46.15%) Test Analyst
2 22 (33.85%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 14 (21.54%) Test Engineer
4 10 (15.38%) Network Engineer
5 9 (13.85%) Lead
5 9 (13.85%) Test Leader
6 8 (12.31%) Tester
7 5 (7.69%) QA Tester
8 3 (4.62%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.62%) Senior
8 3 (4.62%) Software Analyst
8 3 (4.62%) Software Test Analyst
9 2 (3.08%) Senior QA Tester
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.08%) Software Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.08%) Systems Test Engineer
10 1 (1.54%) Architect
10 1 (1.54%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (30.77%) REST
2 13 (20.00%) NETCONF
2 13 (20.00%) RESTCONF
2 13 (20.00%) SOAP
3 12 (18.46%) YANG
4 4 (6.15%) Playwright
5 1 (1.54%) .NET
5 1 (1.54%) JSON
5 1 (1.54%) Web Services
5 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.62%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.54%) Fixed Income
2 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.54%) Reference Data
2 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.54%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 3 (4.62%) Linux
2 2 (3.08%) Unix
3 1 (1.54%) Embedded Linux
3 1 (1.54%) Ubuntu
3 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (86.15%) Test Automation
2 47 (72.31%) Agile
3 30 (46.15%) Continuous Integration
3 30 (46.15%) Test Management
4 19 (29.23%) CI/CD
5 18 (27.69%) Scrum
6 16 (24.62%) Security Testing
7 15 (23.08%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 15 (23.08%) User Acceptance Testing
8 14 (21.54%) Containerisation
8 14 (21.54%) Performance Testing
8 14 (21.54%) Regression Testing
8 14 (21.54%) Test Strategy
8 14 (21.54%) Unit Testing
9 13 (20.00%) Integration Testing
9 13 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
9 13 (20.00%) Workflow
10 12 (18.46%) System Integration Testing
11 10 (15.38%) SDLC
12 9 (13.85%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 20 (30.77%) Python
2 18 (27.69%) SQL
3 7 (10.77%) JavaScript
4 6 (9.23%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.08%) Java
5 2 (3.08%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.54%) C#
6 1 (1.54%) C++
Qualifications
1 33 (50.77%) ISTQB
2 30 (46.15%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 27 (41.54%) Security Cleared
4 23 (35.38%) DV Cleared
5 6 (9.23%) Degree
6 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
7 3 (4.62%) Master's Degree
8 2 (3.08%) HNC
9 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (21.54%) QA
System Software
1 12 (18.46%) Docker
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) Oracle
2 1 (1.54%) Google
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft