Software Testing Contracts in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 99 76
Rank change year-on-year +41 -23 -5
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 14 11 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 1.40% 0.67% 2.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.60% 0.74% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 30
10th Percentile £446 £428 £406
25th Percentile - £444 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £488
90th Percentile £564 £593 £520
Yorkshire median daily rate £428 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £32.50 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year - +80.56% -
Yorkshire median hourly rate - £36.54 £39.00
% change year-on-year - -6.31% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 877 1,493 1,783
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.70% 91.60% 91.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 511 1,021 1,281
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £568
90th Percentile £668 £700 £644
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 18 45
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.81 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £16.12 £12.00
Median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year -53.59% +53.06% -21.14%
75th Percentile £15.24 £63.75 £22.40
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.15
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 24 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
Leeds +29 13 £450 -10.00% 12
Bradford +2 1 £465 +3.33%
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (57.14%) Azure
2 7 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) GitHub
3 1 (7.14%) SaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) Git
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
1 5 (35.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (14.29%) JUnit
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Cypress.io
3 1 (7.14%) TestNG
General
1 4 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) SQL BI Developer
1 5 (35.71%) SQL Developer
2 2 (14.29%) IT Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Automation Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Design Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Junior
3 1 (7.14%) Manual Tester
3 1 (7.14%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) QA Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Senior Business Analyst
3 1 (7.14%) Site Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Gherkin
1 1 (7.14%) pytest
1 1 (7.14%) RESTful
1 1 (7.14%) Swagger
1 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) DevOps
2 6 (42.86%) Unit Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Business Intelligence
3 5 (35.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) API Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Open Source
6 2 (14.29%) Release Management
6 2 (14.29%) User Stories
7 1 (7.14%) Data Protection
7 1 (7.14%) Kanban
7 1 (7.14%) Manual Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Regression Testing
7 1 (7.14%) System Testing
7 1 (7.14%) Time Management
7 1 (7.14%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Cisco
2 1 (7.14%) Ribbon