Software Testing Contracts in Croydon

Software Testing
South London > Croydon

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 31 34 26
Rank change year-on-year +3 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 3 3 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 2.01% 1.70% 7.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.10% 1.78% 7.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 7
10th Percentile - - £320
25th Percentile - £468 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £475 £453
Median % change year-on-year - +4.97% +9.70%
75th Percentile - £488 £461
90th Percentile - £492 £466
South London median daily rate £465 £475 £455
% change year-on-year -2.11% +4.40% +10.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 143 169 153
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 95.97% 96.02% 93.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 136 121
10th Percentile £363 £450 £406
25th Percentile £431 £481 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £638
90th Percentile £630 £725 £700
South London median daily rate £500 £525 £541
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.00% +3.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 0
10th Percentile £16.64 - -
25th Percentile £17.06 - -
Median hourly rate £23.00 - -
75th Percentile £25.25 - -
90th Percentile £30.23 - -
South London median hourly rate £23.50 £36.94 £47.34
% change year-on-year -36.38% -21.97% +1.99%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Croydon

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Croydon

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Croydon

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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 (66.67%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon S3
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
1 2 (66.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
1 2 (66.67%) GitLab
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Developer
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
1 1 (33.33%) Senior
1 1 (33.33%) Senior DevOps
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Refactoring
2 2 (66.67%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Clean Code
3 1 (33.33%) Data Management
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Secure Coding
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Bash
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform