Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Bradford

Software Testing
West Yorkshire > Bradford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bradford requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 4 -
Rank change year-on-year -10 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bradford 6.15% 20.00% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.02% 23.68% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
10th Percentile £434 £381 -
25th Percentile £435 £399 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £408 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.19% - -
75th Percentile £511 £411 -
90th Percentile £519 £422 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% -4.55%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bradford

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 Bradford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 57 38 78
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bradford 87.69% 84.44% 87.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 22 63
10th Percentile £274 £363 £356
25th Percentile £417 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £415 £515
Median % change year-on-year +19.88% -19.42% +4.15%
75th Percentile £584 £438 £600
90th Percentile £659 £610 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +0.50% -5.24% +2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 2
10th Percentile £18.87 - £27.10
25th Percentile £20.09 - £27.59
Median hourly rate £22.14 - £28.42
Median % change year-on-year - - +63.78%
75th Percentile - - £29.25
90th Percentile - - £29.75
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £27.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% +44.74% -9.52%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bradford

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Bradford

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Bradford

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Software Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bradford citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bradford 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Ethernet
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Senior
2 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Node.js
1 2 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Clean Code
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven
1 2 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) User Experience
1 2 (50.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Juniper
1 2 (50.00%) Meraki
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Nokia