Software Testing Contracts in West London

Software Testing
London > West London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 39 63 58
Rank change year-on-year +24 -5 -20
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West London 1.65% 0.52% 0.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 0.56% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 2
10th Percentile £378 - £372
25th Percentile £423 £430 £387
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £440 £424
Median % change year-on-year +18.41% +3.71% -8.27%
75th Percentile £646 £450 £462
90th Percentile £663 - £477
London median daily rate £470 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -14.55% +7.32% +7.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.38 -
25th Percentile - £55.31 £15.75
Median hourly rate - £68.75 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year - +316.67% -
75th Percentile - £80.31 £17.25
90th Percentile - £86.13 -
London median hourly rate £43.84 £52.58 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.62% +110.32% +2.67%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 320 534 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 88.15% 93.36% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 392 390
10th Percentile £218 £350 £236
25th Percentile £325 £463 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £510
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +10.29% -0.97%
75th Percentile £588 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 51 26
10th Percentile £16.25 £30.00 £15.63
25th Percentile £17.50 £47.88 £17.97
Median hourly rate £30.16 £65.00 £23.14
Median % change year-on-year -53.60% +180.90% -20.89%
75th Percentile £56.25 £75.00 £41.52
90th Percentile £65.00 £90.00 £44.01
London median hourly rate £28.00 £38.25 £36.75
% change year-on-year -26.80% +4.08% +13.08%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in West London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in West London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in West London over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in West London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in West London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 11 May 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
Hillingdon - 2 £521 -
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West 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 1 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Cognito
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon EventBridge
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon Kinesis
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon SQS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) AWS KMS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Azure API Management
2 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Functions
2 1 (16.67%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (33.33%) DynamoDB
1 2 (33.33%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Git
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Mocha
2 1 (16.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) AWS Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Backend Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Developer
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Web Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
1 2 (33.33%) GraphQL
1 2 (33.33%) Lambda Expressions
1 2 (33.33%) Next.js
1 2 (33.33%) Node.js
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) CSS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (16.67%) React
2 1 (16.67%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (16.67%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Black-Box Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Capacity Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Investment Management
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Responsive Web Design
4 1 (16.67%) Software Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 1 (16.67%) TestOps
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
1 1 (16.67%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow