Software Testing Contracts in London

Software Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 195 203 214
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 +41
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 218 350 530
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.22% 1.29% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.38% 1.42% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 262 349
10th Percentile £325 £326 £362
25th Percentile £375 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £545 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.15% +6.34% +7.89%
75th Percentile £629 £673 £600
90th Percentile £702 £738 £675
England median daily rate £450 £500 £480
% change year-on-year -10.00% +4.17% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £37.45 - £20.38
25th Percentile £38.01 £45.00 £30.90
Median hourly rate £41.00 £52.97 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% +9.04% +99.51%
75th Percentile £44.95 £60.00 £54.07
90th Percentile £46.10 £62.70 £58.58
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +8.29%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
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 Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 29 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 +20 32 £500 -13.04% 8
East London 0 8 £435 - 5
West London +21 6 £521 +18.41% 1
South London +12 6 £465 -2.11% 3
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.29%) Confluence
2 4 (1.83%) CMS
2 4 (1.83%) OpenStack
3 3 (1.38%) WebLogic
3 3 (1.38%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.92%) Apache
4 2 (0.92%) Apache Spark
4 2 (0.92%) Headless CMS
4 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.46%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.46%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.21%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.38%) Windchill
4 1 (0.46%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.75%) Endur
2 4 (1.83%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (1.38%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.38%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.38%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.92%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.92%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.92%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.92%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.92%) WebTrends
4 2 (0.92%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.46%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.46%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.46%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 42 (19.27%) Azure
2 38 (17.43%) AWS
3 18 (8.26%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.59%) Serverless
5 8 (3.67%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.67%) SaaS
6 7 (3.21%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.75%) PaaS
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.29%) Amazon S3
8 5 (2.29%) GitHub
9 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.83%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.83%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.38%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.38%) GCP
10 3 (1.38%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.92%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.29%) DNS
1 5 (2.29%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.83%) DHCP
2 4 (1.83%) Firewall
3 3 (1.38%) FTP
3 3 (1.38%) SMS
4 2 (0.92%) HTTP
5 1 (0.46%) 5G
5 1 (0.46%) Broadband
5 1 (0.46%) HbbTV
5 1 (0.46%) Internet
5 1 (0.46%) MVNO
5 1 (0.46%) SSH
5 1 (0.46%) VLAN
5 1 (0.46%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.46%) VoWiFi
5 1 (0.46%) VPN
5 1 (0.46%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (7.80%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.67%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.75%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (2.75%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.29%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.83%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.83%) MySQL
5 4 (1.83%) Power BI
6 3 (1.38%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.38%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.38%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.92%) Big Data
7 2 (0.92%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Couchbase
8 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 46 (21.10%) Selenium
2 36 (16.51%) Git
3 27 (12.39%) Cucumber
4 26 (11.93%) JIRA
5 22 (10.09%) JUnit
6 21 (9.63%) Postman
7 20 (9.17%) WebDriver
8 19 (8.72%) REST Assured
9 17 (7.80%) TestNG
10 13 (5.96%) Appium
10 13 (5.96%) Jenkins
11 11 (5.05%) SoapUI
12 10 (4.59%) eggPlant
12 10 (4.59%) SOAtest
12 10 (4.59%) SpecFlow
12 10 (4.59%) Visual Studio
13 6 (2.75%) HP UFT
13 6 (2.75%) LoadRunner
14 5 (2.29%) JMeter
14 5 (2.29%) TestRail
General
1 70 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 48 (22.02%) Finance
3 42 (19.27%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (11.93%) Banking
5 25 (11.47%) Back Office
6 20 (9.17%) Public Sector
7 10 (4.59%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (3.67%) Retail
10 7 (3.21%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.29%) Front Office
11 5 (2.29%) Influencing Skills
11 5 (2.29%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.83%) Retail Banking
13 3 (1.38%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.92%) Corporate Banking
14 2 (0.92%) Electronics
14 2 (0.92%) Law
14 2 (0.92%) Legal
14 2 (0.92%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 39 (17.89%) Analyst
2 38 (17.43%) Senior
3 32 (14.68%) Tester
4 31 (14.22%) Developer
5 28 (12.84%) Lead
6 24 (11.01%) Test Analyst
7 15 (6.88%) Senior Analyst
7 15 (6.88%) Test Engineer
8 14 (6.42%) Senior Test Analyst
9 13 (5.96%) Software Developer
9 13 (5.96%) Software Engineer
10 10 (4.59%) React Developer
11 9 (4.13%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (4.13%) Business Analyst
11 9 (4.13%) QA Engineer
12 8 (3.67%) Consultant
12 8 (3.67%) Manual Tester
12 8 (3.67%) Technical Leader
12 8 (3.67%) Test Manager
13 7 (3.21%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.22%) .NET
2 23 (10.55%) React
3 22 (10.09%) .NET Framework
4 15 (6.88%) AngularJS
5 14 (6.42%) HTML
5 14 (6.42%) REST
6 12 (5.50%) Redux
7 10 (4.59%) CSS
7 10 (4.59%) GraphQL
7 10 (4.59%) Node.js
8 9 (4.13%) Web Services
9 8 (3.67%) RESTful
10 7 (3.21%) ADO
10 7 (3.21%) React Native
10 7 (3.21%) XML
11 6 (2.75%) Angular 2
11 6 (2.75%) Blazor
11 6 (2.75%) Entity Framework
11 6 (2.75%) HTML5
12 5 (2.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.96%) Product Ownership
2 12 (5.50%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.67%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.21%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.75%) Replication
6 5 (2.29%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.29%) Clustering
6 5 (2.29%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.29%) Self-Motivation
7 4 (1.83%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.83%) Hedge funds
7 4 (1.83%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.38%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.38%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.38%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.92%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 17 (7.80%) Android
2 15 (6.88%) Windows
3 9 (4.13%) Linux
4 3 (1.38%) Unix
4 3 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.92%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 106 (48.62%) Agile
3 57 (26.15%) CI/CD
4 48 (22.02%) Software Engineering
5 45 (20.64%) DevOps
6 39 (17.89%) Continuous Integration
7 38 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
8 37 (16.97%) Scrum
9 36 (16.51%) Test Strategy
10 28 (12.84%) Test Scripting
11 26 (11.93%) User Stories
12 25 (11.47%) End-to-End Testing
12 25 (11.47%) SDLC
13 24 (11.01%) TDD
14 21 (9.63%) Performance Testing
14 21 (9.63%) Regression Testing
14 21 (9.63%) SDET
15 20 (9.17%) BDD
15 20 (9.17%) User Acceptance Testing
16 18 (8.26%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 49 (22.48%) Java
2 45 (20.64%) Python
3 42 (19.27%) C#
4 36 (16.51%) SQL
5 27 (12.39%) JavaScript
6 26 (11.93%) TypeScript
7 12 (5.50%) PowerShell
8 11 (5.05%) Kotlin
9 7 (3.21%) Go
10 6 (2.75%) Bash
11 5 (2.29%) C
12 3 (1.38%) Bicep
12 3 (1.38%) C++
12 3 (1.38%) Perl
13 2 (0.92%) Ruby
13 2 (0.92%) Scala
14 1 (0.46%) Ada
14 1 (0.46%) PHP
14 1 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 38 (17.43%) Degree
2 32 (14.68%) Security Cleared
3 29 (13.30%) SC Cleared
4 19 (8.72%) ISTQB
5 17 (7.80%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.38%) ISEB
7 3 (1.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (1.38%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.92%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) A+ Certification
9 1 (0.46%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.46%) MCSE
9 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.46%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (0.46%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (16.06%) QA
2 5 (2.29%) ISO 9001
3 4 (1.83%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.83%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.83%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (0.46%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.46%) SLA
4 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (4.59%) Docker
2 7 (3.21%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (6.42%) Kubernetes
2 8 (3.67%) SCCM
3 5 (2.29%) Ansible
3 5 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.83%) Terraform
5 3 (1.38%) HP ALM
5 3 (1.38%) WSUS
6 2 (0.92%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (0.92%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (0.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 1 (0.46%) Grafana
7 1 (0.46%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.46%) Iperf
7 1 (0.46%) Kibana
7 1 (0.46%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.46%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 33 (15.14%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.88%) Oracle
3 8 (3.67%) IBM
4 7 (3.21%) HP
5 6 (2.75%) Adobe
5 6 (2.75%) OpenLink
5 6 (2.75%) SAP
6 4 (1.83%) Databricks
6 4 (1.83%) Google
6 4 (1.83%) Optimizely
7 3 (1.38%) Micro Focus
7 3 (1.38%) PTC
7 3 (1.38%) Siemens
7 3 (1.38%) Splunk
8 2 (0.92%) Ab Initio
8 2 (0.92%) Apple
8 2 (0.92%) Broadcom
8 2 (0.92%) Dell
8 2 (0.92%) Murex
8 2 (0.92%) Sybase