Software Testing Contracts in Leeds

Software Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 52 85 64
Rank change year-on-year +33 -21 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 13 8 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.65% 0.60% 2.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.90% 0.66% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 28
10th Percentile £443 - £404
25th Percentile - £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £488
90th Percentile £565 £595 £509
West Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year - +80.56% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 685 1,206 1,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.82% 91.09% 92.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 868 1,055
10th Percentile £300 £386 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 19
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £17.95
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.43 £20.56
Median hourly rate £12.30 £44.53 £22.55
Median % change year-on-year -72.38% +97.50% +7.36%
75th Percentile £12.53 £68.44 £28.00
90th Percentile £15.24 £70.00 £28.85
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year -53.59% +50.00% -19.54%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Leeds

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Leeds

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Leeds

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Leeds

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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 8 (61.54%) Azure
2 7 (53.85%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.69%) GitHub
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Git
1 5 (38.46%) JIRA
1 5 (38.46%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (15.38%) JUnit
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.69%) TestNG
General
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 5 (38.46%) Developer
1 5 (38.46%) SQL BI Developer
1 5 (38.46%) SQL Developer
2 2 (15.38%) IT Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Junior
3 1 (7.69%) Junior Tester
3 1 (7.69%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.69%) QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior QA Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.69%) pytest
1 1 (7.69%) RESTful
1 1 (7.69%) Swagger
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Unit Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (38.46%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
5 3 (23.08%) Agile
5 3 (23.08%) API Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (15.38%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Open Source
6 2 (15.38%) Release Management
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
7 1 (7.69%) Business Analysis
7 1 (7.69%) Data Protection
7 1 (7.69%) Kanban
7 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Mentoring
7 1 (7.69%) System Testing
7 1 (7.69%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) Java
3 1 (7.69%) C#
3 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) SC Cleared
1 5 (38.46%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft