Web Testing Contracts

Web Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Web Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Web Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 569 653 829
Rank change year-on-year +84 +176 -144
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 10 41 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.072% 0.038%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.027% 0.080% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 39 20
10th Percentile £351 £198 £336
25th Percentile £356 £513 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £650 £431
Median % change year-on-year -44.23% +50.72% +23.21%
75th Percentile £500 £673 £480
90th Percentile £515 £695 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £550 £350
% change year-on-year -34.09% +57.14% -21.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web 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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £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 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

Web Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Web Testing over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 20 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 +81 6 £363 -44.23% 4
UK excluding London +48 5 £363 -34.09% 3
East Midlands +19 5 £363 -40.82% 1
Midlands +19 5 £363 -40.21% 1
Work from Home +103 4 £500 -9.09%
London +73 1 £600 -7.69% 2

Web 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (50.00%) Oracle Database
2 2 (20.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) JMeter
2 2 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Data Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Lead
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) SOAP
1 2 (20.00%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Manual Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Performance Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (50.00%) System Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Open Source
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Test Management
5 1 (10.00%) API Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
5 1 (10.00%) BDD
5 1 (10.00%) Black-Box Testing
5 1 (10.00%) DevOps
5 1 (10.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Test Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
1 4 (40.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) HP