Software Testing Contracts in Belfast

Software Testing
County Antrim > Belfast

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 25 26
Rank change year-on-year +6 +1 -7
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Belfast 2.44% 0.62% 2.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.33% 0.76% 3.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £518
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.93%
75th Percentile £575 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
County Antrim median daily rate £550 - £518
% change year-on-year - - +19.93%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Belfast

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Belfast with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 90 131 152
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Belfast 73.17% 80.86% 84.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 69 82
10th Percentile £210 £170 £145
25th Percentile £328 £258 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £435
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £515 £500
90th Percentile £663 £638 £549
County Antrim median daily rate £500 £400 £435
% change year-on-year +25.00% -8.05% +8.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 12 6
10th Percentile - £13.30 £10.06
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.87 £10.22
Median hourly rate £12.62 £15.50 £11.36
Median % change year-on-year -18.58% +36.44% -18.86%
75th Percentile £14.78 £17.00 £16.40
90th Percentile £19.19 £18.33 £20.93
County Antrim median hourly rate £14.19 £15.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -8.48% -1.52% +21.08%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Belfast

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Belfast.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Belfast

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Belfast

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Belfast

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Belfast

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Belfast 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (66.67%) QA Tester
1 2 (66.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
2 1 (33.33%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Integration Testing
1 2 (66.67%) System Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft