Hamcrest Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Hamcrest
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Hamcrest skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Hamcrest over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 330 401 577
Rank change year-on-year +71 +176 +21
Contract jobs citing Hamcrest 1 5 6
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.008% 0.027% 0.016%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.065% 0.20% 0.087%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 6
10th Percentile - - £478
25th Percentile - £331 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £338 £500
Median % change year-on-year +67.41% -32.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile - £397 -
90th Percentile - £429 £513
UK median daily rate £565 £338 £500
% change year-on-year +67.41% -32.50% -

All Development Application Skills
Work from Home

Hamcrest falls under the Development Applications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring development application skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for development application skills 1,530 2,469 6,863
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 12.56% 13.27% 18.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 1,815 4,878
10th Percentile £330 £359 £400
25th Percentile £406 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% -4.55% +7.32%
75th Percentile £613 £623 £663
90th Percentile £700 £700 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £539 £551
% change year-on-year -3.53% -2.09% +4.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 77 128
10th Percentile £22.75 £50.00 £49.25
25th Percentile £33.81 £56.25 £56.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +7.69% +20.93%
75th Percentile £68.19 £85.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £73.88 £90.00 £73.98
UK median hourly rate £64.00 £65.00 £60.50
% change year-on-year -1.54% +7.44% +16.35%

Hamcrest
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Hamcrest as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Hamcrest trend for jobs with a WFH option

Hamcrest
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Hamcrest.

Hamcrest daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Hamcrest
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Gatling
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Serenity BDD
1 1 (100.00%) SonarQube
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) SOLID
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (100.00%) SAP
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk