Volume Testing Contracts

Volume Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Volume Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Volume Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 597 690 838
Rank change year-on-year +93 +148 -118
Contract jobs citing Volume Testing 2 1 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.005% 0.002% 0.018%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.005% 0.002% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
10th Percentile - - £356
25th Percentile £406 - £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 - £432
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.88%
75th Percentile £419 - £516
90th Percentile - - £518
UK excluding London median daily rate £413 - £432
% change year-on-year - - +12.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Volume 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 36,910 49,947 79,932
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.25% 89.66% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,591 34,538 56,189
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £648
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,563 1,686 1,877
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.54 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +38.82% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Volume Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Volume Testing in the UK

Volume Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Volume Testing in the UK

Volume Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Volume Testing in the UK

Volume Testing
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Volume Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 8 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 +96 2 £413 - 1
Work from Home - 1 £413 -
UK excluding London - 1 £413 - 1
London - 1 - -
South East - 1 £413 -

Volume 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 1 (50.00%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) SAP Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) SAP SD Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) B2B Sales
1 1 (50.00%) B2C
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) SAP