Software Testing Contracts in Central London

Software Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 131 133
Rank change year-on-year +31 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 34 48 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.40% 1.27% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.54% 1.39% 1.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 37 51
10th Percentile - £316 £413
25th Percentile £375 £456 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.22% +15.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £599 £725 £580
90th Percentile £750 £845 £650
London median daily rate £468 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -15.00% +6.80% +8.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,202 3,443 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.62% 91.33% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 2,335 3,145
10th Percentile £350 £325 £375
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £570
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £823 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 28 43
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.18 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.75 £18.03 £22.63
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £30.41 £55.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £41.47 £88.30 £65.10
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
City of London +33 33 £463 -19.57% 9
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 2 (5.88%) Apache
1 2 (5.88%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.88%) WebLogic
1 2 (5.88%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Endur
2 1 (2.94%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) AWS
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (8.82%) Amazon S3
2 3 (8.82%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
2 3 (8.82%) Serverless
3 2 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.94%) BrowserStack
4 1 (2.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Data Lake
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (5.88%) MySQL
2 2 (5.88%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.94%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (2.94%) Big Data
3 1 (2.94%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (38.24%) Selenium
2 7 (20.59%) Cucumber
2 7 (20.59%) Postman
3 6 (17.65%) Git
3 6 (17.65%) JUnit
3 6 (17.65%) REST Assured
4 4 (11.76%) TestNG
5 3 (8.82%) JIRA
5 3 (8.82%) SoapUI
6 2 (5.88%) Android Studio
6 2 (5.88%) Appium
6 2 (5.88%) eggPlant
6 2 (5.88%) Jenkins
6 2 (5.88%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (5.88%) ScalaTest
6 2 (5.88%) SOAtest
6 2 (5.88%) Subversion
6 2 (5.88%) TestComplete
6 2 (5.88%) Visual Studio Code
6 2 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 13 (38.24%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Back Office
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.82%) Banking
4 3 (8.82%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.94%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 10 (29.41%) Analyst
2 8 (23.53%) Senior
3 6 (17.65%) Test Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Tester
5 4 (11.76%) Developer
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Senior Test Analyst
5 4 (11.76%) Software Engineer
6 3 (8.82%) Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Data Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Data Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Insurance Business Analyst
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Software Tester
6 3 (8.82%) Senior Tester
6 3 (8.82%) Software Tester
7 2 (5.88%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 2 (5.88%) Lead
7 2 (5.88%) Scala Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Software Developer
7 2 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) .NET
2 3 (8.82%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.88%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.88%) jQuery
3 2 (5.88%) Kafka
3 2 (5.88%) REST
3 2 (5.88%) RESTful
3 2 (5.88%) SOAP
3 2 (5.88%) Spring
3 2 (5.88%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.88%) Struts
3 2 (5.88%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (5.88%) Web Services
4 1 (2.94%) Middleware
4 1 (2.94%) Playwright
4 1 (2.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.94%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.65%) Android
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Unix
3 1 (2.94%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (67.65%) Agile
2 21 (61.76%) Test Automation
3 9 (26.47%) CI/CD
3 9 (26.47%) SDET
3 9 (26.47%) Test Scripting
4 8 (23.53%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (17.65%) Acceptance Criteria
5 6 (17.65%) DevOps
5 6 (17.65%) Manual Testing
5 6 (17.65%) Microservices
5 6 (17.65%) User Stories
6 5 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (14.71%) SDLC
6 5 (14.71%) Test Strategy
7 4 (11.76%) Integration Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Migration
7 4 (11.76%) Non-Functional Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Scrum
7 4 (11.76%) Software Engineering
7 4 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (35.29%) Java
2 7 (20.59%) SQL
3 6 (17.65%) C#
4 5 (14.71%) Python
5 4 (11.76%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.88%) Scala
7 1 (2.94%) Bash
7 1 (2.94%) C++
7 1 (2.94%) Go
7 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.94%) JCL
7 1 (2.94%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 4 (11.76%) ISTQB
3 3 (8.82%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.82%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) ISEB
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.71%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) NFS
2 1 (2.94%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.94%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft
1 5 (14.71%) Oracle
2 3 (8.82%) Databricks
2 3 (8.82%) IBM
3 2 (5.88%) Micro Focus
3 2 (5.88%) OpenLink
4 1 (2.94%) Broadcom
4 1 (2.94%) Brocade
4 1 (2.94%) CA
4 1 (2.94%) Dell