Software Testing Contracts in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 108 136 104
Rank change year-on-year +28 -32 +3
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 95 91 175
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.72% 1.56% 2.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.03% 1.75% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 43 100
10th Percentile - £242 £350
25th Percentile £205 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £451
Median % change year-on-year - -5.82% +6.18%
75th Percentile £644 £524 £528
90th Percentile £688 £586 £614
England median daily rate £450 £510 £488
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 30 20
10th Percentile £19.25 - £23.33
25th Percentile £28.25 £42.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £60.50 £45.00 £36.02
Median % change year-on-year +34.44% +24.92% -31.39%
75th Percentile £62.13 £54.69 £49.38
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.78 £65.05
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,689 5,214 6,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.87% 89.45% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,728 3,619 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £623 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 431 218 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.37 £12.23
25th Percentile £18.20 £23.49 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -13.46%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.85 £62.59
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 27 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
Thames Valley +38 60 £500 +15.94% 40
Berkshire +30 56 £500 +6.38% 18
Hampshire -5 16 £400 -23.08% 25
Surrey -4 10 £438 +75.00% 17
West Sussex +4 5 £400 +6.67% 3
Buckinghamshire +24 4 £490 +32.43% 16
Kent +2 2 £105 -79.51% 5
East Sussex +6 1 - - 3
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (7.37%) Confluence
2 1 (1.05%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.05%) Apache
2 1 (1.05%) MTS
Applications
1 18 (18.95%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 18 (18.95%) AWS
2 6 (6.32%) Azure
3 5 (5.26%) GitHub
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (4.21%) Azure Monitor
5 3 (3.16%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
7 1 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 18 (18.95%) LAN
2 5 (5.26%) SNMP
3 4 (4.21%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (4.21%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.11%) Internet
4 2 (2.11%) RS-232
5 1 (1.05%) SMS
5 1 (1.05%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (21.05%) PostgreSQL
2 19 (20.00%) Oracle Database
3 17 (17.89%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (3.16%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.16%) Couchbase
4 3 (3.16%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.05%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 21 (22.11%) Git
2 10 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.47%) JIRA
4 6 (6.32%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.21%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.21%) Eclipse
5 4 (4.21%) GitLab
5 4 (4.21%) GoogleTest
5 4 (4.21%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.16%) LabVIEW
7 2 (2.11%) ClearCase
7 2 (2.11%) ClearQuest
7 2 (2.11%) Selenium
8 1 (1.05%) JUnit
8 1 (1.05%) Postman
8 1 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.05%) TestNG
8 1 (1.05%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.05%) Visual Studio
General
1 31 (32.63%) Social Skills
2 19 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (8.42%) Telecoms
4 4 (4.21%) Aerospace
5 3 (3.16%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.11%) Electronics
6 2 (2.11%) German Language
6 2 (2.11%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.11%) Spanish Language
7 1 (1.05%) Automotive
7 1 (1.05%) Games
7 1 (1.05%) Marketing
7 1 (1.05%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 19 (20.00%) Developer
1 19 (20.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 17 (17.89%) Test Engineer
3 15 (15.79%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 9 (9.47%) Analyst
5 8 (8.42%) Senior
5 8 (8.42%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.42%) Software Test Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Break Fix Engineer
6 5 (5.26%) Designer
6 5 (5.26%) Lead
6 5 (5.26%) Lead Designer
6 5 (5.26%) Tester
7 4 (4.21%) Development Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Software Development Engineer
7 4 (4.21%) Test Analyst
7 4 (4.21%) Test Development Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Linux Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Systems Test Engineer
8 3 (3.16%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (10.53%) HTML
2 9 (9.47%) CSS
3 6 (6.32%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.32%) Node.js
4 5 (5.26%) XML
5 4 (4.21%) REST
5 4 (4.21%) RESTful
5 4 (4.21%) SOAP
6 3 (3.16%) React
7 2 (2.11%) Jest
7 2 (2.11%) Redux
7 2 (2.11%) Spring
7 2 (2.11%) Spring Boot
8 1 (1.05%) Flash
8 1 (1.05%) Gherkin
8 1 (1.05%) HTML5
8 1 (1.05%) jQuery
8 1 (1.05%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.05%) Algorithms
3 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.05%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.05%) Digital TV
3 1 (1.05%) FPGA
3 1 (1.05%) Life Science
3 1 (1.05%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.05%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 23 (24.21%) Windows
2 18 (18.95%) Windows 10
2 18 (18.95%) Windows 7
3 15 (15.79%) Linux
4 11 (11.58%) Unix
5 4 (4.21%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (37.89%) Software Engineering
2 27 (28.42%) Agile
2 27 (28.42%) DevOps
3 25 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (26.32%) Test Automation
4 22 (23.16%) Unit Testing
5 20 (21.05%) Architectural Design
5 20 (21.05%) Customer Service
6 19 (20.00%) Customer Requirements
6 19 (20.00%) Software Deployment
7 18 (18.95%) Data Migration
7 18 (18.95%) ITIL
7 18 (18.95%) Migration
7 18 (18.95%) Service Delivery
8 17 (17.89%) Clean Code
8 17 (17.89%) Performance Tuning
8 17 (17.89%) Secure Coding
9 13 (13.68%) Computer Science
10 9 (9.47%) CI/CD
10 9 (9.47%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 32 (33.68%) SQL
2 17 (17.89%) PL/SQL
3 12 (12.63%) JavaScript
4 10 (10.53%) C++
5 8 (8.42%) Python
6 6 (6.32%) C
7 5 (5.26%) Java
7 5 (5.26%) PHP
8 4 (4.21%) Go
9 2 (2.11%) Bash
9 2 (2.11%) C#
9 2 (2.11%) Kotlin
9 2 (2.11%) ProC
10 1 (1.05%) Embedded C
10 1 (1.05%) Embedded C++
10 1 (1.05%) MATLAB
10 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 43 (45.26%) Security Cleared
2 33 (34.74%) Degree
3 24 (25.26%) SC Cleared
4 19 (20.00%) DV Cleared
5 8 (8.42%) ISTQB
6 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (2.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.05%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.53%) QA
2 3 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.05%) HL7
System Software
1 22 (23.16%) Firmware
2 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.21%) VirtualBox
3 2 (2.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.95%) SCCM
2 4 (4.21%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.11%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 28 (29.47%) Oracle
2 20 (21.05%) HP
3 18 (18.95%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.21%) Google
5 3 (3.16%) Atlassian
6 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe
7 1 (1.05%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.05%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.05%) Xilinx