Software Testing Contracts in County Antrim

Software Testing
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in County Antrim 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 26 25
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 2 1 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 1.53% 0.60% 3.85%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.04% 0.73% 4.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £498
25th Percentile - - £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +27.46%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate - - £550
% change year-on-year - - +27.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
Northern Ireland median hourly rate - - £19.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
County Antrim

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 County Antrim with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 98 137 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in County Antrim 74.81% 81.55% 84.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 66 82
10th Percentile £210 £168 £145
25th Percentile £325 £253 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £406 £435
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -6.61% +8.75%
75th Percentile £575 £511 £500
90th Percentile £665 £630 £536
Northern Ireland median daily rate £500 £406 £445
% change year-on-year +23.08% -8.71% +9.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 9
10th Percentile - £13.25 £10.16
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.92 £10.29
Median hourly rate £14.19 £15.50 £15.74
Median % change year-on-year -8.48% -1.52% +21.08%
75th Percentile £25.22 £17.13 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.43 £21.65
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £13.94 £15.50 £15.74
% change year-on-year -10.06% -1.52% -0.76%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in County Antrim

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in County Antrim

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in County Antrim

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in County Antrim

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

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 County Antrim region over the 6 months to 19 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
Belfast +4 2 - - 6
Software Testing
Northern Ireland

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) Maven
1 2 (100.00%) NUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (100.00%) QA