TestRail Contracts in the UK excluding London

Gurock TestRail
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 358 421 484
Rank change year-on-year +63 +63 -47
Contract jobs citing TestRail 36 21 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.17% 0.092% 0.094%
As % of the Development Applications category 1.60% 0.68% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 27
10th Percentile £346 £448 £290
25th Percentile £381 £513 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +22.22% +20.00%
75th Percentile £589 £623 £545
90th Percentile £610 £713 £575
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +33.33%

All Development Application Skills
UK excluding London

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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 2,246 3,071 4,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 10.82% 13.40% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,447 2,142 3,193
10th Percentile £350 £337 £360
25th Percentile £413 £415 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.92%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £584
90th Percentile £658 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 166 112
10th Percentile £40.00 £48.13 £41.48
25th Percentile £54.38 £53.75 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £67.52
90th Percentile £77.65 £79.00 £76.64
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
% change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +8.29%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing TestRail as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for TestRail in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing TestRail in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for TestRail in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing TestRail in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for TestRail in the UK excluding London

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Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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
South East +30 31 £550 +0.92% 2
Midlands +26 3 £400 -
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
South West +5 1 £360 -46.67%
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
North of England - 1 - - 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
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UK

TestRail
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (19.44%) Apache
1 7 (19.44%) Apache Airflow
2 4 (11.11%) Confluence
3 1 (2.78%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 7 (19.44%) BGP
1 7 (19.44%) Ethernet VPN
1 7 (19.44%) MPLS
1 7 (19.44%) Radio Access Network
1 7 (19.44%) VPN
2 4 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (19.44%) MongoDB
1 7 (19.44%) NoSQL
1 7 (19.44%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (5.56%) Oracle Database
3 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (36.11%) JIRA
2 7 (19.44%) GitLab
2 7 (19.44%) Robot Framework
3 5 (13.89%) Selenium
4 1 (2.78%) Cypress.io
4 1 (2.78%) JMeter
4 1 (2.78%) Postman
General
1 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
2 4 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (2.78%) Finance
3 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Analyst
1 22 (61.11%) Test Analyst
2 18 (50.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 11 (30.56%) Test Engineer
4 6 (16.67%) Network Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (11.11%) Systems Test Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Software Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Software Test Analyst
6 3 (8.33%) Unix Engineer
6 3 (8.33%) Unix Systems Engineer
7 2 (5.56%) Tester
8 1 (2.78%) Administrator
8 1 (2.78%) Developer
8 1 (2.78%) JIRA Engineer
8 1 (2.78%) Lead
8 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow Administrator
8 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow Developer
8 1 (2.78%) Telecoms Tester
8 1 (2.78%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (22.22%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) NETCONF
2 7 (19.44%) RESTCONF
2 7 (19.44%) SOAP
2 7 (19.44%) YANG
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.11%) Linux
1 4 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (86.11%) Agile
2 30 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 19 (52.78%) Test Management
4 18 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 11 (30.56%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 11 (30.56%) Scrum
6 10 (27.78%) Requirements Analysis
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) Containerisation
7 7 (19.44%) Integration Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Performance Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Regression Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Security Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Unit Testing
7 7 (19.44%) Workflow
8 4 (11.11%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
8 4 (11.11%) Functional Testing
8 4 (11.11%) Project Planning
8 4 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 14 (38.89%) SQL
2 7 (19.44%) Python
3 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 25 (69.44%) ISTQB
2 22 (61.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 22 (61.11%) Security Cleared
3 18 (50.00%) DV Cleared
4 4 (11.11%) Degree
4 4 (11.11%) HNC
4 4 (11.11%) Master's Degree
4 4 (11.11%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (19.44%) QA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (2.78%) ServiceNow