Software Testing Contracts in the City of London

Software Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 124 123
Rank change year-on-year +31 -1 -9
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 32 49 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.45% 1.35% 1.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.47% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 39 52
10th Percentile - £336 £401
25th Percentile £375 £456 £464
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £510
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +12.75% +7.37%
75th Percentile £619 £725 £580
90th Percentile £750 £836 £611
Central London median daily rate £500 £575 £523
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.05% +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,993 3,339 3,884
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.51% 91.81% 91.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,406 2,252 2,942
10th Percentile £359 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 23 41
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.50 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +113.30%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £51.75
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £62.50
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 (6.25%) Apache
1 2 (6.25%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.25%) WebLogic
1 2 (6.25%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.25%) Endur
2 1 (3.13%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 5 (15.63%) AWS
1 5 (15.63%) Azure
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (9.38%) Amazon S3
2 3 (9.38%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (9.38%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.38%) Serverless
3 2 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.13%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.38%) Power BI
2 2 (6.25%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.25%) MySQL
2 2 (6.25%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.13%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.13%) Big Data
3 1 (3.13%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (43.75%) Selenium
2 7 (21.88%) Cucumber
2 7 (21.88%) JUnit
2 7 (21.88%) REST Assured
3 6 (18.75%) Git
4 5 (15.63%) TestNG
5 4 (12.50%) Postman
6 3 (9.38%) Jenkins
6 3 (9.38%) JIRA
6 3 (9.38%) SoapUI
7 2 (6.25%) Android Studio
7 2 (6.25%) Appium
7 2 (6.25%) eggPlant
7 2 (6.25%) HP UFT
7 2 (6.25%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (6.25%) Mockito
7 2 (6.25%) SOAtest
7 2 (6.25%) Subversion
7 2 (6.25%) TestComplete
7 2 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.88%) Finance
3 6 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Back Office
4 3 (9.38%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.25%) Banking
6 1 (3.13%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Senior
2 5 (15.63%) Tester
3 4 (12.50%) Developer
3 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Data Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Data Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Insurance Business Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Software Tester
4 3 (9.38%) Senior Tester
4 3 (9.38%) Software Tester
4 3 (9.38%) Test Analyst
4 3 (9.38%) Test Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.38%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Developer/Software Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Lead
5 2 (6.25%) Manual Tester
5 2 (6.25%) QA Engineer
5 2 (6.25%) Scala Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) .NET
2 3 (9.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.25%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.25%) jQuery
3 2 (6.25%) Kafka
3 2 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) RESTful
3 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) Spring
3 2 (6.25%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.25%) Struts
3 2 (6.25%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (6.25%) Web Services
4 1 (3.13%) Middleware
4 1 (3.13%) Playwright
4 1 (3.13%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (3.13%) Mobile App
1 1 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 3 (9.38%) Android
2 2 (6.25%) Unix
3 1 (3.13%) Linux
3 1 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (59.38%) Agile
1 19 (59.38%) Test Automation
2 10 (31.25%) CI/CD
2 10 (31.25%) SDET
2 10 (31.25%) Test Scripting
3 6 (18.75%) DevOps
3 6 (18.75%) Microservices
3 6 (18.75%) Migration
3 6 (18.75%) User Stories
4 5 (15.63%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (15.63%) Integration Testing
4 5 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (15.63%) SDLC
5 4 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
5 4 (12.50%) Logistics
5 4 (12.50%) Manual Testing
5 4 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (12.50%) Scrum
5 4 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (40.63%) Java
2 7 (21.88%) C#
2 7 (21.88%) SQL
3 6 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (6.25%) Scala
5 1 (3.13%) Bash
5 1 (3.13%) C++
5 1 (3.13%) Go
5 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.13%) Kotlin
5 1 (3.13%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) ISTQB
2 5 (15.63%) Degree
3 3 (9.38%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) ISEB
5 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) QA
2 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.13%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (9.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.13%) Ansible
2 1 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (15.63%) Oracle
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.38%) Databricks
4 2 (6.25%) IBM
4 2 (6.25%) Micro Focus
4 2 (6.25%) OpenLink