Web Testing Contracts

Web Testing
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Web Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Web 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 572 659 812
Rank change year-on-year +87 +153 -101
Contract jobs citing Web Testing 12 38 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.068% 0.041%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.032% 0.076% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 34 21
10th Percentile - £192 £350
25th Percentile £356 £417 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £606 £463
Median % change year-on-year -17.53% +31.08% +32.14%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £494
90th Percentile £650 £695 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £363 £525 £350
% change year-on-year -30.95% +50.00% -21.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Web 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% -

Web Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Web Testing in the UK

Web Testing
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Web 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
England +57 8 £363 -39.58% 4
Work from Home +106 4 £500 -9.09% 1
London +61 4 £600 -7.69% 2
UK excluding London +23 4 £363 -30.95% 3
Midlands +16 4 £363 -39.58%
East Midlands +8 4 £363 -40.82%

Web 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (41.67%) Oracle Database
2 2 (16.67%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) Selenium
2 3 (25.00%) SpecFlow
3 2 (16.67%) JMeter
3 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
General
1 3 (25.00%) Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Analyst
1 6 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Data Analyst
2 5 (41.67%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Test Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) SOAP
1 2 (16.67%) XML
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 7 (58.33%) Performance Testing
2 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Scenario Testing
3 5 (41.67%) System Testing
3 5 (41.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (33.33%) Functional Testing
5 3 (25.00%) API Testing
5 3 (25.00%) BDD
5 3 (25.00%) DevOps
5 3 (25.00%) SDET
5 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (16.67%) Asset Management
6 2 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
6 2 (16.67%) Data Analysis
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Open Source
6 2 (16.67%) PRINCE2
6 2 (16.67%) Test Management
6 2 (16.67%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISEB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 4 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 4 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (16.67%) HP