Remote Testing Contracts

Remote Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Remote Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Remote Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 581 681 824
Rank change year-on-year +100 +143 -112
Contract jobs citing Remote Testing 3 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.029% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.008% 0.032% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 21
10th Percentile £390 £315 £431
25th Percentile £431 £478 £543
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% -6.52% +9.52%
75th Percentile £530 £625 £625
90th Percentile £548 £704 £669
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £155
% change year-on-year - +254.84% -70.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £85.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Remote Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,178 49,770 79,013
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.13% 89.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,737 34,458 55,587
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,579 1,678 1,852
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%
75th Percentile £61.28 £65.00 £50.15
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
% change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -

Remote Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Remote Testing over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Remote Testing in the UK

Remote Testing
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remote Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
Work from Home +115 3 £500 -25.93% 1
England +73 1 £375 -30.23% 1

Remote 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Figma
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Axure RP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) Designer
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce Designer
1 1 (33.33%) HR Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Lead
1 1 (33.33%) Payroll Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Coordinator
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Context-Driven Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Copywriting
2 1 (33.33%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Interaction Design
2 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (33.33%) Prototyping
2 1 (33.33%) Psychology
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Research
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) SAP
1 1 (33.33%) ServiceNow