Tester Contracts with Work from Home Options

Tester
UK > Work from Home

The median Tester daily rate in Work from Home is £450 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 246 253 246
Rank change year-on-year +7 -7 -17
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 99 212 456
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.67% 0.86% 1.03%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.90% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 154 372
10th Percentile £351 £285 £313
25th Percentile £375 £387 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.09%
75th Percentile £531 £538 £536
90th Percentile £611 £644 £600
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 6
10th Percentile - - £16.13
25th Percentile - £52.00 £17.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £54.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +184.21% -60.00%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £41.06
90th Percentile - - £57.87
UK median hourly rate £30.15 £72.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -58.13% +311.43% -61.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,806 23,471 42,177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.27% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,297 16,589 30,510
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 559 538 592
10th Percentile £14.27 £17.44 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.33
Median hourly rate £44.00 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% +50.00% +45.83%
75th Percentile £64.14 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.43 £68.70
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Tester
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Tester trend for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
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 Tester.

Tester daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Tester over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Tester daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Tester
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 Tester.

Tester hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with a WFH option featuring Tester in the job title.

1 62 (62.63%) Test Automation
2 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 28 (28.28%) Agile
3 25 (25.25%) Selenium
4 23 (23.23%) QA
4 23 (23.23%) Java
5 19 (19.19%) JavaScript
5 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
5 19 (19.19%) Cypress.io
6 18 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 18 (18.18%) JMeter
6 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
7 17 (17.17%) Python
8 15 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (15.15%) Software Testing
8 15 (15.15%) Azure
9 14 (14.14%) AWS
9 14 (14.14%) DevOps
9 14 (14.14%) Scrum
9 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
10 13 (13.13%) Postman
10 13 (13.13%) Banking
10 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
10 13 (13.13%) Cucumber
11 12 (12.12%) BDD
11 12 (12.12%) Manual Testing
11 12 (12.12%) API Testing
11 12 (12.12%) Performance Testing
12 11 (11.11%) JIRA
12 11 (11.11%) Finance

Tester Skill Set
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 (7.07%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.01%) BASE24
1 1 (1.01%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.15%) Azure
2 14 (14.14%) AWS
3 11 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (6.06%) BrowserStack
4 6 (6.06%) GitHub
5 5 (5.05%) BlazeMeter
5 5 (5.05%) Firebase
5 5 (5.05%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (3.03%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.02%) Amazon SQS
7 2 (2.02%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.02%) GCP
8 1 (1.01%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.01%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.01%) IBM Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (1.01%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.03%) Wireless
2 1 (1.01%) 4G
2 1 (1.01%) 5G
2 1 (1.01%) ATM
2 1 (1.01%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (9.09%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.02%) Power BI
3 1 (1.01%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.01%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.01%) MariaDB
3 1 (1.01%) MySQL
3 1 (1.01%) Parquet
3 1 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 25 (25.25%) Selenium
2 19 (19.19%) Cypress.io
3 18 (18.18%) JMeter
4 13 (13.13%) Cucumber
4 13 (13.13%) Jenkins
4 13 (13.13%) Postman
5 11 (11.11%) JIRA
6 10 (10.10%) WebDriver
7 9 (9.09%) GitLab
8 7 (7.07%) Git
8 7 (7.07%) SoapUI
9 6 (6.06%) Appium
9 6 (6.06%) Maven
9 6 (6.06%) REST Assured
10 5 (5.05%) JUnit
11 4 (4.04%) SpecFlow
11 4 (4.04%) TestNG
12 2 (2.02%) Gradle
12 2 (2.02%) LoadRunner
12 2 (2.02%) Mocha
General
1 18 (18.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (13.13%) Banking
3 11 (11.11%) Finance
4 9 (9.09%) Investment Banking
5 7 (7.07%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.06%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (6.06%) Front Office
7 4 (4.04%) Back Office
8 3 (3.03%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.02%) Retail
9 2 (2.02%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.02%) Wholesale Banking
10 1 (1.01%) Electronics
10 1 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.01%) Legal
10 1 (1.01%) Local Government
10 1 (1.01%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.01%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (11.11%) REST
2 8 (8.08%) Middleware
3 6 (6.06%) Gherkin
3 6 (6.06%) Playwright
4 5 (5.05%) Spring Boot
4 5 (5.05%) WebdriverIO
5 4 (4.04%) Web Services
6 3 (3.03%) .NET
6 3 (3.03%) Chai
6 3 (3.03%) Jest
6 3 (3.03%) Node.js
6 3 (3.03%) Spring
7 2 (2.02%) JAXB
7 2 (2.02%) JAX-RS
7 2 (2.02%) JSON
7 2 (2.02%) React
7 2 (2.02%) SOAP
7 2 (2.02%) XML
8 1 (1.01%) AngularJS
8 1 (1.01%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.04%) Mobile App
1 4 (4.04%) Operational Technology
2 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.02%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (2.02%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.02%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.01%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.01%) Cyberattack
3 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.01%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.01%) EMV
3 1 (1.01%) Equities
3 1 (1.01%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.01%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.01%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.01%) Replication
3 1 (1.01%) Robotics
3 1 (1.01%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.01%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.05%) Linux
2 4 (4.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.01%) Unix
3 1 (1.01%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (62.63%) Test Automation
2 28 (28.28%) Agile
3 18 (18.18%) Test Scripting
4 15 (15.15%) Software Testing
4 15 (15.15%) User Acceptance Testing
5 14 (14.14%) CI/CD
5 14 (14.14%) DevOps
5 14 (14.14%) Scrum
6 12 (12.12%) API Testing
6 12 (12.12%) BDD
6 12 (12.12%) Manual Testing
6 12 (12.12%) Performance Testing
7 11 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (11.11%) Scenario Testing
7 11 (11.11%) Test Strategy
8 10 (10.10%) Test Management
9 9 (9.09%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (9.09%) Validation
10 8 (8.08%) Test Planning
10 8 (8.08%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 23 (23.23%) Java
2 19 (19.19%) JavaScript
3 17 (17.17%) Python
4 11 (11.11%) SQL
5 10 (10.10%) C#
6 8 (8.08%) TypeScript
7 4 (4.04%) C++
8 2 (2.02%) C
9 1 (1.01%) PowerShell
9 1 (1.01%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 28 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 19 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 8 (8.08%) CREST Certified
4 7 (7.07%) DV Cleared
5 6 (6.06%) OSCP
6 4 (4.04%) Degree
7 3 (3.03%) CEH
7 3 (3.03%) GIAC
7 3 (3.03%) GPEN
7 3 (3.03%) ISTQB
8 2 (2.02%) CHECK Team Leader
8 2 (2.02%) CHECK Team Member
8 2 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.02%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 1 (1.01%) CISM
9 1 (1.01%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (23.23%) QA
2 9 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.03%) NIST
3 3 (3.03%) WCAG
4 1 (1.01%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.01%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.01%) ISO 8583
4 1 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (4.04%) Docker
2 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.03%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.01%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 5 (5.05%) Oracle
3 4 (4.04%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.03%) SAP
5 2 (2.02%) Google
5 2 (2.02%) IBM
5 2 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.01%) FIS
6 1 (1.01%) Fiserv
6 1 (1.01%) IBM Sterling
6 1 (1.01%) NEC
6 1 (1.01%) VocaLink
6 1 (1.01%) Wincor Nixdorf
6 1 (1.01%) WorldPay