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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 642 798
Rank change year-on-year +102 +156 -108
Contract jobs citing TestRail 50 46 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.082% 0.054%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.95% 0.58% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 34 42
10th Percentile £346 £468 £313
25th Percentile £363 £500 £396
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £608 £696 £629
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £450
% change year-on-year - +22.22% +20.00%

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 5,240 7,964 15,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.05% 14.28% 17.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,499 5,618 11,089
10th Percentile £353 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £456 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £662 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +12.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 223 202
10th Percentile £30.60 £45.24 £38.03
25th Percentile £46.25 £53.75 £39.75
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £52.25
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +17.70% +6.63%
75th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.70 £82.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +5.69% +11.82% +15.79%

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 7 June 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 7 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 +93 46 £550 +4.76% 9
UK excluding London +68 35 £550 - 8
South East +27 30 £550 +0.92% 4
Work from Home +130 18 £588 +14.63% 3
London +78 11 £400 -20.00% 2
Midlands +22 3 £400 -
East Midlands - 2 £363 -
South West +10 1 £360 -46.67%
West Midlands - 1 £525 -
North of England - 1 - - 3
Yorkshire - 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 8 (16.00%) Apache
1 8 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (10.00%) Confluence
3 1 (2.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) AWS
2 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.00%) Sauce Labs
4 1 (2.00%) Azure
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub
4 1 (2.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (16.00%) BGP
1 8 (16.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 8 (16.00%) MPLS
1 8 (16.00%) VPN
2 7 (14.00%) Radio Access Network
3 4 (8.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (16.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (14.00%) MongoDB
2 7 (14.00%) NoSQL
2 7 (14.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (4.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 22 (44.00%) JIRA
2 8 (16.00%) GitLab
2 8 (16.00%) JMeter
2 8 (16.00%) Robot Framework
2 8 (16.00%) Selenium
3 6 (12.00%) Git
3 6 (12.00%) SpecFlow
4 5 (10.00%) Cucumber
5 4 (8.00%) FitNesse
5 4 (8.00%) Postman
6 3 (6.00%) Cypress.io
6 3 (6.00%) LoadRunner
7 2 (4.00%) Bugzilla
7 2 (4.00%) JUnit
7 2 (4.00%) TestNG
8 1 (2.00%) Mocha
General
1 8 (16.00%) Finance
1 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Automotive
3 3 (6.00%) Back Office
3 3 (6.00%) Banking
3 3 (6.00%) Front Office
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 24 (48.00%) Analyst
1 24 (48.00%) Test Analyst
2 18 (36.00%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
3 11 (22.00%) Test Engineer
4 10 (20.00%) Tester
5 5 (10.00%) Network Engineer
5 5 (10.00%) QA Tester
6 4 (8.00%) Systems Engineer
6 4 (8.00%) Systems Test Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) QA Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Software Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Software Test Analyst
7 3 (6.00%) Unix Engineer
7 3 (6.00%) Unix Systems Engineer
8 2 (4.00%) Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Data Analytics Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Senior QA Tester
8 2 (4.00%) Senior Tester
8 2 (4.00%) Test Architect
8 2 (4.00%) Test Automation Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (28.00%) REST
2 8 (16.00%) NETCONF
2 8 (16.00%) RESTCONF
2 8 (16.00%) SOAP
3 7 (14.00%) YANG
4 5 (10.00%) Playwright
5 2 (4.00%) .NET
6 1 (2.00%) CSS
6 1 (2.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 4 (8.00%) Linux
1 4 (8.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (82.00%) Test Automation
2 40 (80.00%) Agile
3 27 (54.00%) Test Management
4 25 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 14 (28.00%) CI/CD
5 14 (28.00%) Scrum
6 11 (22.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 11 (22.00%) Security Testing
7 10 (20.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 10 (20.00%) Software Testing
8 9 (18.00%) Containerisation
8 9 (18.00%) Regression Testing
8 9 (18.00%) TDD
9 8 (16.00%) End-to-End Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Integration Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Performance Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Unit Testing
9 8 (16.00%) Workflow
10 6 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (12.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.00%) SQL
2 15 (30.00%) Python
3 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 6 (12.00%) TypeScript
4 4 (8.00%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.00%) Java
6 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 30 (60.00%) ISTQB
2 27 (54.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 24 (48.00%) Security Cleared
4 18 (36.00%) DV Cleared
5 7 (14.00%) Degree
6 6 (12.00%) SC Cleared
7 4 (8.00%) HNC
7 4 (8.00%) Master's Degree
8 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (32.00%) QA
System Software
1 7 (14.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (16.00%) Oracle
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow