Software Testing Contracts in Cheshire

Software Testing
North West > Cheshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 59 57
Rank change year-on-year +6 -2 -18
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.80% 0.75% 0.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.83% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
10th Percentile £331 £349 -
25th Percentile £359 £413 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -23.26% +7.50% +16.14%
75th Percentile £459 £572 -
90th Percentile £484 £581 -
North West median daily rate £475 £395 £438
% change year-on-year +20.25% -9.71% +15.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 483 456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 84.43% 91.13% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 328 263
10th Percentile £277 £275 £214
25th Percentile £400 £400 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +2.86%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £538
90th Percentile £637 £660 £631
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 23 26
10th Percentile £13.70 £19.06 £10.28
25th Percentile £16.61 £23.15 £15.55
Median hourly rate £26.66 £30.54 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +29.96% -27.06%
75th Percentile £42.31 £35.00 £33.62
90th Percentile £44.13 £39.20 £60.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +9.18%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Cheshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Cheshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Cheshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Cheshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Warrington +6 2 £325 -41.57% 2
Crewe - 2 £456 - 4
Software Testing
North West

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (25.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (25.00%) UAT Lead
1 1 (25.00%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Core
1 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
1 1 (25.00%) Entity Framework
1 1 (25.00%) Sass
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Agile
1 1 (25.00%) API Testing
1 1 (25.00%) B2B
1 1 (25.00%) CRM
1 1 (25.00%) DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (25.00%) Feasibility Study
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (25.00%) Logistics
1 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (25.00%) MVC
1 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (25.00%) System Testing
1 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (25.00%) User Experience
1 1 (25.00%) User Stories
1 1 (25.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Bicep
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce