Test Assurance Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Assurance over the 6 months to 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 435 610
Rank change year-on-year +99 +175 -125
Contract jobs citing Test Assurance 3 16 14
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.067% 0.032%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.023% 0.075% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 11 10
10th Percentile - £420 £407
25th Percentile £281 £456 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £470 £473
Median % change year-on-year -38.83% -0.53% +5.00%
75th Percentile £294 £516 £500
90th Percentile - £575 £502
UK median daily rate £433 £488 £463
% change year-on-year -11.28% +5.41% +2.78%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Test Assurance 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 12,810 21,394 40,150
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.31% 89.63% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,622 15,186 29,240
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 497 521
10th Percentile £14.90 £18.50 £14.50
25th Percentile £23.75 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +68.42%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.00
90th Percentile £74.40 £78.30 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Test Assurance
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Assurance as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Assurance trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
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 Test Assurance.

Test Assurance daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Assurance
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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Junior
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Junior Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Fusion
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Unix
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Coaching
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Management
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle