End-to-End Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

End-to-End Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 238 327 303
Rank change year-on-year +89 -24 +9
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 111 133 372
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.76% 0.55% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.61% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 89 279
10th Percentile £363 £325 £350
25th Percentile £403 £363 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £619
90th Percentile £738 £788 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +17.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £26.00
25th Percentile - - £27.50
Median hourly rate - - £30.00
75th Percentile - - £32.50
90th Percentile - - £34.00
UK median hourly rate £26.03 £37.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year -30.12% +6.43% -36.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,824 21,734 40,250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,646 15,426 29,289
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 517
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £58.38
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%

End-to-End Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing End-to-End Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

End-to-End Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing End-to-End Testing.

End-to-End Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing End-to-End Testing over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

End-to-End Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing End-to-End Testing.

End-to-End Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

End-to-End Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (6.31%) Confluence
2 6 (5.41%) CMS
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Spark
3 3 (2.70%) Headless CMS
3 3 (2.70%) Umbraco
4 2 (1.80%) Apache Airflow
4 2 (1.80%) IIS
4 2 (1.80%) JBoss
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Oracle EBS
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle AGIS
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle Assets
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle General Ledger
2 7 (6.31%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (3.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (3.60%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.80%) Oracle Receivables
4 2 (1.80%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.90%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.90%) MIS ActiveH
5 1 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 30 (27.03%) AWS
2 14 (12.61%) Azure
3 7 (6.31%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (5.41%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (4.50%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.50%) GCP
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon S3
6 4 (3.60%) Amazon SQS
6 4 (3.60%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (3.60%) Serverless
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECR
7 2 (1.80%) Amazon ECS
7 2 (1.80%) Apigee
7 2 (1.80%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (1.80%) AWS CodePipeline
7 2 (1.80%) AWS KMS
7 2 (1.80%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (1.80%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.60%) TCP/IP
2 2 (1.80%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (10.81%) NoSQL
2 10 (9.01%) Relational Database
3 4 (3.60%) MongoDB
4 3 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (2.70%) MySQL
4 3 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon Athena
5 2 (1.80%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (1.80%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (1.80%) Apache Hive
5 2 (1.80%) DB2
5 2 (1.80%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.80%) Hadoop
5 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (17.12%) JIRA
2 12 (10.81%) Jenkins
3 9 (8.11%) Git
4 6 (5.41%) Cypress.io
5 5 (4.50%) Bitbucket
5 5 (4.50%) Cucumber
5 5 (4.50%) Selenium
6 4 (3.60%) GitLab
7 3 (2.70%) Artifactory
7 3 (2.70%) JUnit
7 3 (2.70%) Storybook
7 3 (2.70%) TestRail
8 2 (1.80%) FitNesse
8 2 (1.80%) JIRA Agile
8 2 (1.80%) JMeter
8 2 (1.80%) LoadRunner
8 2 (1.80%) Maven
8 2 (1.80%) TestNG
8 2 (1.80%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (1.80%) webpack
General
1 26 (23.42%) Social Skills
2 21 (18.92%) Finance
3 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 12 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (7.21%) Marketing
6 7 (6.31%) Banking
6 7 (6.31%) Front Office
6 7 (6.31%) General Ledger
7 6 (5.41%) Telecoms
8 4 (3.60%) Electronics
8 4 (3.60%) Investment Banking
8 4 (3.60%) Manufacturing
8 4 (3.60%) Retail
9 3 (2.70%) Corporate Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.70%) Tech for Good
10 2 (1.80%) Back Office
10 2 (1.80%) Military
11 1 (0.90%) Automotive
11 1 (0.90%) Legal
Job Titles
1 32 (28.83%) Developer
2 17 (15.32%) Analyst
3 15 (13.51%) Test Manager
4 12 (10.81%) Test Analyst
5 9 (8.11%) Architect
5 9 (8.11%) Software Developer
5 9 (8.11%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) React Developer
7 7 (6.31%) Oracle Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Oracle Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Solutions Architect
7 7 (6.31%) Tester
8 6 (5.41%) Java Developer
8 6 (5.41%) Lead
8 6 (5.41%) Software Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Consultant
9 5 (4.50%) Electronic Trading Developer
9 5 (4.50%) Python Developer
9 5 (4.50%) Senior
9 5 (4.50%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (15.32%) RESTful
2 15 (13.51%) React
3 11 (9.91%) FastAPI
3 11 (9.91%) WebSockets
4 7 (6.31%) CSS
4 7 (6.31%) Redux
4 7 (6.31%) REST
5 6 (5.41%) GraphQL
6 5 (4.50%) .NET
6 5 (4.50%) Kafka
6 5 (4.50%) Node.js
6 5 (4.50%) Reactive Extensions
7 4 (3.60%) HTML
7 4 (3.60%) OAuth
7 4 (3.60%) Spring
7 4 (3.60%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (2.70%) OpenTracing
8 3 (2.70%) Playwright
8 3 (2.70%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.50%) Management Information System
2 4 (3.60%) Data Structures
2 4 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (3.60%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (3.60%) Public Cloud
3 3 (2.70%) Mobile App
3 3 (2.70%) Product Ownership
4 2 (1.80%) Data Centre
4 2 (1.80%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.80%) Private Cloud
5 1 (0.90%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.90%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.90%) FMCG
5 1 (0.90%) Genomics
5 1 (0.90%) IoT
5 1 (0.90%) Market Risk
5 1 (0.90%) Reference Data
5 1 (0.90%) Robotics
5 1 (0.90%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (9.91%) Linux
2 5 (4.50%) Windows
3 4 (3.60%) Unix
4 3 (2.70%) Android
4 3 (2.70%) Embedded Linux
5 2 (1.80%) AIX
5 2 (1.80%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.80%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (44.14%) Agile
2 32 (28.83%) Test Automation
3 28 (25.23%) Test Scripting
4 24 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
5 23 (20.72%) CI/CD
5 23 (20.72%) Integration Testing
6 21 (18.92%) Scenario Testing
7 16 (14.41%) Continuous Integration
8 15 (13.51%) DevOps
8 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (13.51%) Software Testing
8 15 (13.51%) Test Management
8 15 (13.51%) Unit Testing
9 14 (12.61%) Software Engineering
9 14 (12.61%) Test Strategy
10 13 (11.71%) API Development
10 13 (11.71%) System Integration Testing
11 12 (10.81%) Analytics
11 12 (10.81%) System Testing
12 11 (9.91%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 33 (29.73%) SQL
2 29 (26.13%) Python
3 21 (18.92%) TypeScript
4 17 (15.32%) Java
5 15 (13.51%) JavaScript
6 10 (9.01%) C#
7 5 (4.50%) C++
7 5 (4.50%) Kotlin
8 4 (3.60%) Scala
9 2 (1.80%) Bash
9 2 (1.80%) C
9 2 (1.80%) Groovy
9 2 (1.80%) Perl
9 2 (1.80%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.80%) Ruby
10 1 (0.90%) Jython
10 1 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.90%) VB
10 1 (0.90%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 25 (22.52%) Security Cleared
2 21 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.51%) ISTQB
4 8 (7.21%) Degree
5 7 (6.31%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.70%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 2 (1.80%) ISEB
8 1 (0.90%) HNC
8 1 (0.90%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.90%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (14.41%) QA
2 7 (6.31%) GAAP
3 3 (2.70%) PMO
4 2 (1.80%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.90%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.90%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.90%) GDPR
System Software
1 8 (7.21%) Docker
2 3 (2.70%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (2.70%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 8 (7.21%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.60%) Ansible
2 4 (3.60%) Grafana
2 4 (3.60%) Terraform
3 3 (2.70%) Prometheus
3 3 (2.70%) Zipkin
4 2 (1.80%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (1.80%) Nagios
4 2 (1.80%) Progress Chef
4 2 (1.80%) Puppet
4 2 (1.80%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 18 (16.22%) Oracle
2 8 (7.21%) OpenAI
3 7 (6.31%) SAP
4 5 (4.50%) Microsoft
5 4 (3.60%) Google
5 4 (3.60%) IBM
5 4 (3.60%) NEC
5 4 (3.60%) Splunk
6 3 (2.70%) HP
7 2 (1.80%) AppDynamics
7 2 (1.80%) Confluent
7 2 (1.80%) F5
7 2 (1.80%) Informatica
7 2 (1.80%) New Relic
7 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.80%) ServiceNow
7 2 (1.80%) StreamSets
7 2 (1.80%) VMware
8 1 (0.90%) UiPath
8 1 (0.90%) Workday