Software Tester Contracts in London

Software Tester
England > London

The median Software Tester daily rate in London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 487 589
Rank change year-on-year +102 +102 -147
Contract jobs requiring a Software Tester 7 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.039% 0.030% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.031% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 8
10th Percentile £341 £330 £379
25th Percentile £384 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £454 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.63% +0.89% +24.14%
75th Percentile £703 £525 £494
90th Percentile £750 £588 £569
England median daily rate £450 £290 £380
% change year-on-year +55.17% -23.68% +27.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.75
Median hourly rate - - £16.50
75th Percentile - - £17.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £18.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 16,618 25,758 37,088
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.21% 95.30% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,017 18,663 27,056
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £444 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 290 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.53 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £76.03 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Software Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Tester in London

Software Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in London.

Daily rate trend for Software Tester in London

Software Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Tester in London over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Tester in London

Software Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Tester in London

Software Tester
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the London region over the 6 months to 30 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
Central London - 3 £750 -
Software Tester
England

Software Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 30 April 2024, Software Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Software Tester in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) TestComplete
3 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 2 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Back Office
3 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 2 (28.57%) .NET
3 2 (28.57%) Oracle
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) OpenLink
3 2 (28.57%) Endur
3 2 (28.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Data Development
4 1 (14.29%) Epics
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories

Software Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) TestComplete
2 1 (14.29%) Cypress.io
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Manual Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Development
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Epics
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Test Management
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) OpenLink
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (14.29%) HP