Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Barrow-in-Furness

Software Testing
Cumbria > Barrow-in-Furness

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Barrow-in-Furness 0.96% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 - -
Cumbria median daily rate £409 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Barrow-in-Furness

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Barrow-in-Furness.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 108 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness 79.81% 85.71% 81.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 46 88
10th Percentile £410 £425 £487
25th Percentile £460 £456 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £626
Median % change year-on-year +3.02% -20.13% +46.60%
75th Percentile £557 £587 £670
90th Percentile £638 £674 £697
Cumbria median daily rate £515 £500 £600
% change year-on-year +3.02% -16.67% +40.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 13 3
10th Percentile £30.65 £29.25 £21.82
25th Percentile £38.59 £45.22 £26.19
Median hourly rate £41.71 £52.19 £35.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +45.17% -36.24%
75th Percentile £62.12 £73.56 £47.14
90th Percentile £63.59 £79.42 £52.37
Cumbria median hourly rate £41.71 £51.10 £35.95
% change year-on-year -18.38% +42.13% -35.63%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Barrow-in-Furness.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Software Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Barrow-in-Furness

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Software Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Barrow-in-Furness citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Barrow-in-Furness by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) SNMP
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Dashboard Development
1 1 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Server Building
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) VMware