TestRail Contracts

Gurock TestRail
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for TestRail skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited TestRail over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 631 803
Rank change year-on-year +112 +172 -154
Contract jobs citing TestRail 57 53 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.093% 0.053%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.11% 0.63% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 41 41
10th Percentile £350 £455 £313
25th Percentile £363 £500 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +6.06% +32.00%
75th Percentile £603 £588 £575
90th Percentile £610 £713 £630
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £475
% change year-on-year - +15.79% +26.67%

All Development Application Skills
UK

TestRail is in the Development Applications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 5,137 8,429 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.07% 14.80% 18.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,452 5,946 11,103
10th Percentile £353 £381 £400
25th Percentile £425 £460 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £663 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £749
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 205 228 212
10th Percentile £32.23 £44.06 £38.43
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.55
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.04% +15.48%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.11
90th Percentile £78.45 £82.50 £76.64
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +20.88%

TestRail
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in the UK

TestRail
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing TestRail within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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 +121 53 £550 +4.76% 11
UK excluding London +70 40 £550 - 9
South East +31 35 £550 +1.85% 6
Work from Home +121 18 £591 +7.50% 7
London +98 13 £550 +10.00% 2
Midlands +29 3 £400 -
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
South West +4 1 £360 -48.57% 1
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - - 1

TestRail
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (19.30%) Apache
1 11 (19.30%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (8.77%) Confluence
3 1 (1.75%) Appian
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Loan IQ
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) AWS
2 3 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (3.51%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (1.75%) Azure
4 1 (1.75%) GitHub
4 1 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (1.75%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 11 (19.30%) BGP
1 11 (19.30%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (19.30%) MPLS
1 11 (19.30%) VPN
2 10 (17.54%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (5.26%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.54%) MongoDB
1 10 (17.54%) NoSQL
1 10 (17.54%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (14.04%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.51%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (3.51%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 27 (47.37%) JIRA
2 11 (19.30%) GitLab
2 11 (19.30%) Robot Framework
3 9 (15.79%) JMeter
4 7 (12.28%) Git
4 7 (12.28%) Selenium
5 5 (8.77%) Cucumber
5 5 (8.77%) SpecFlow
6 4 (7.02%) FitNesse
6 4 (7.02%) LoadRunner
6 4 (7.02%) Postman
7 3 (5.26%) Cypress.io
8 2 (3.51%) Bugzilla
8 2 (3.51%) JUnit
8 2 (3.51%) TestNG
9 1 (1.75%) Gatling
9 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
9 1 (1.75%) Mocha
General
1 9 (15.79%) Finance
1 9 (15.79%) Social Skills
2 4 (7.02%) Banking
3 3 (5.26%) Automotive
3 3 (5.26%) Back Office
3 3 (5.26%) Front Office
4 2 (3.51%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.75%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (47.37%) Analyst
1 27 (47.37%) Test Analyst
2 20 (35.09%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 13 (22.81%) Test Engineer
4 9 (15.79%) Tester
5 8 (14.04%) Network Engineer
6 5 (8.77%) QA Tester
7 4 (7.02%) Lead
7 4 (7.02%) Test Leader
8 3 (5.26%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Software Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Software Test Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Systems Test Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Senior QA Tester
9 2 (3.51%) Senior Tester
9 2 (3.51%) Test Architect
9 2 (3.51%) Unix Engineer
9 2 (3.51%) Unix Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (29.82%) REST
2 11 (19.30%) NETCONF
2 11 (19.30%) RESTCONF
2 11 (19.30%) SOAP
3 10 (17.54%) YANG
4 5 (8.77%) Playwright
5 1 (1.75%) .NET
5 1 (1.75%) CSS
5 1 (1.75%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.26%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.75%) Fixed Income
2 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 3 (5.26%) Linux
1 3 (5.26%) Unix
2 1 (1.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (84.21%) Test Automation
2 46 (80.70%) Agile
3 30 (52.63%) Test Management
4 28 (49.12%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (31.58%) CI/CD
6 17 (29.82%) Scrum
7 14 (24.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 14 (24.56%) Security Testing
8 13 (22.81%) Requirements Analysis
9 12 (21.05%) Containerisation
9 12 (21.05%) Performance Testing
9 12 (21.05%) Regression Testing
10 11 (19.30%) Integration Testing
10 11 (19.30%) Software Testing
10 11 (19.30%) Unit Testing
10 11 (19.30%) Workflow
11 8 (14.04%) End-to-End Testing
11 8 (14.04%) TDD
11 8 (14.04%) Test Strategy
11 8 (14.04%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (31.58%) Python
1 18 (31.58%) SQL
2 6 (10.53%) JavaScript
2 6 (10.53%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.26%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.51%) Java
Qualifications
1 32 (56.14%) ISTQB
2 29 (50.88%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 27 (47.37%) Security Cleared
4 21 (36.84%) DV Cleared
5 6 (10.53%) Degree
5 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.26%) HNC
6 3 (5.26%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (28.07%) QA
System Software
1 10 (17.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.75%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.75%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (14.04%) Oracle
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft
2 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow