Software Testing Contracts in Bristol

Software Testing
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 73 82
Rank change year-on-year +19 +9 -10
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 7 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 1.05% 0.66% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.80% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 7
10th Percentile £363 £326 £413
25th Percentile £436 £349 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £438 £630
Median % change year-on-year +17.14% -30.56% +14.55%
75th Percentile £598 £545 -
90th Percentile £631 £578 -
South West median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +16.16%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 528 874 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 92.47% 82.14% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 488 700
10th Percentile £235 £250 £305
25th Percentile £363 £375 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.31% +4.50%
75th Percentile £563 £600 £638
90th Percentile £650 £675 £721
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 196 204
10th Percentile £18.51 £40.00 -
25th Percentile £23.01 £46.04 £9.80
Median hourly rate £62.50 £67.38 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.24% +17.17% +27.78%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £66.69
90th Percentile £71.50 £80.00 £77.50
South West median hourly rate £40.84 £55.00 £59.80
% change year-on-year -25.75% -8.03% +22.67%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Bristol over the 6 months to 25 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Bristol

Software Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Appian
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) MongoDB
General
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Project Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Project Leader
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Appian Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Chief Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
3 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Development Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Integration Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) API Integration
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (16.67%) Data Validation
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Regression Testing
4 1 (16.67%) SDET
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) Def Stans
2 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) VMware