Senior Software Tester Contracts in Bristol

Senior Software Tester
South West > Bristol

The median Senior Software Tester daily rate in Bristol is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Senior Software Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.14% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £425 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Bristol

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Bristol. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Bristol with a recognized job title 647 877 1,045
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.30% 94.91% 95.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 329 493 714
10th Percentile £247 £257 £322
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% -3.85% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £640
90th Percentile £654 £698 £720
South West median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 187 121
10th Percentile £12.82 £23.80 £20.25
25th Percentile £18.51 £55.50 £51.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £70.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.57% +7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £74.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.65 £80.00 £84.65
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.28
% change year-on-year -62.74% +8.39% +21.55%

Senior Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

Job postings that featured Senior Software Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Bristol.

Job vacancy trend for Senior Software Tester in Bristol

Senior Software Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Software Tester job vacancies in Bristol.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Senior Software Tester job vacancies in Bristol

Senior Software Tester Skill Set
Top 18 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol

For the 6 months to 23 August 2025, Senior Software Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Bristol region featuring Senior Software Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality

Senior Software Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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 1 (100.00%) AWS
General
1 1 (100.00%) Aerospace
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Data Management
1 1 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
1 1 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Software Quality Assurance