Software Testing Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Software Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 50 37
Rank change year-on-year +12 -13 +24
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 7 5 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 2.54% 1.01% 3.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.87% 1.22% 3.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 10
10th Percentile £450 £471 £301
25th Percentile £463 £524 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +38.89% +28.57%
75th Percentile £488 £638 £475
90th Percentile - - £480
East of England median daily rate £475 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +13.10% -6.67% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £26.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate - £29.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year - -44.76% -38.24%
75th Percentile - £31.13 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £85.00 £65.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +30.77% +1.96% +20.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 410 526
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 88.41% 82.83% 88.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 130 148 284
10th Percentile £296 £200 £200
25th Percentile £402 £350 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% +4.44% -
75th Percentile £550 £553 £536
90th Percentile £650 £683 £600
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 194 150
10th Percentile £14.86 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.23 £15.00 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.20% +3.45% +6.15%
75th Percentile £18.85 £21.46 £20.56
90th Percentile £22.93 £52.25 £22.06
East of England median hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £24.62
% change year-on-year +6.25% +62.47% +58.84%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Cambridgeshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Cambridgeshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Cambridgeshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Cambridge +10 1 £438 -30.00% 30
Software Testing
East of England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) 5G NR
2 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) Bash
2 1 (14.29%) Python