Software Testing Contracts in the North West

Software Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 114 118 138
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 20 49 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.73% 1.49% 1.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 1.64% 1.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 42 35
10th Percentile £388 £164 £278
25th Percentile £413 £302 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% - +19.72%
75th Percentile £500 £523 £550
90th Percentile £528 £584 £658
England median daily rate £450 £513 £480
% change year-on-year -12.20% +6.77% +3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £41.59
25th Percentile - - £42.11
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £43.59
75th Percentile £48.79 - £44.45
90th Percentile £54.01 - £44.59
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +8.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,380 2,994 3,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.58% 91.09% 87.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,541 2,143 2,590
10th Percentile £306 £313 £229
25th Percentile £405 £406 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £563
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 149 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.73 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.40%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.52 £43.75
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.80 £60.00
England median hourly rate £34.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -9.33% +56.25% -

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the North West

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the North West

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the North West

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the North West

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Manchester 0 13 £475 +35.71% 35
Cheshire +8 4 £413 -23.26% 26
Lancashire - 3 - - 15
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (5.00%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon S3
1 4 (20.00%) AWS
1 4 (20.00%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (20.00%) Serverless
1 4 (20.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (5.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) HTTP
1 3 (15.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Git
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
3 3 (15.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (15.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Postman
3 3 (15.00%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (10.00%) Octopus Deploy
4 2 (10.00%) Selenium
4 2 (10.00%) TeamCity
5 1 (5.00%) TestCafe
5 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) AWS DevOps
1 4 (20.00%) Developer
1 4 (20.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) C# Developer
2 2 (10.00%) C# Software Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Developer in Test
2 2 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
2 2 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Automation Tester
3 1 (5.00%) Azure Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Design Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) DevOps Developer
3 1 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
3 1 (5.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (5.00%) QA Test Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Software QA Engineer
3 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
3 1 (5.00%) UAT Lead
3 1 (5.00%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.00%) JDBC
1 3 (15.00%) JPA
1 3 (15.00%) JWT
1 3 (15.00%) Spring
1 3 (15.00%) WebSockets
2 1 (5.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Core
2 1 (5.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 1 (5.00%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (5.00%) Sass
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (70.00%) Agile
2 10 (50.00%) DevOps
3 7 (35.00%) CI/CD
3 7 (35.00%) Kanban
3 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (20.00%) Containerisation
5 4 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
5 4 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Microservices
5 4 (20.00%) Multithreading
5 4 (20.00%) Refactoring
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
5 4 (20.00%) Software Deployment
6 3 (15.00%) API Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Dependency Injection
6 3 (15.00%) DevSecOps
6 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (15.00%) Load Balancing
6 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 5 (25.00%) Java
1 5 (25.00%) SQL
2 4 (20.00%) Bash
2 4 (20.00%) C#
2 4 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.00%) Bicep
4 1 (5.00%) T-SQL
4 1 (5.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) PCI DSS
1 2 (10.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Ansible
1 5 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 5 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (5.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) HP
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce