Software Testing Contracts in Cambridgeshire

Software Testing
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 53 36 55
Rank change year-on-year -17 +19 -23
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 5 21 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 1.02% 3.57% 2.02%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 4.03% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 7
10th Percentile £471 £301 £309
25th Percentile £524 £364 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £450 £350
Median % change year-on-year +38.89% +28.57% -6.67%
75th Percentile £638 £475 £431
90th Percentile - £480 £535
East of England median daily rate £420 £450 £390
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.38% +5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.88 £47.50 -
Median hourly rate £29.00 £52.50 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -44.76% -38.24% -
75th Percentile £31.13 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +13.64% +22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 410 521 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 83.33% 88.46% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 150 277 372
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £275 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% - +7.14%
75th Percentile £558 £538 £525
90th Percentile £678 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £475 £475 £467
% change year-on-year - +1.82% +9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 192 152 243
10th Percentile - £13.41 -
25th Percentile £14.16 £14.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £15.00 £15.00 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -
75th Percentile £21.46 £20.56 £15.75
90th Percentile £48.00 £22.00 £22.00
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £24.62 £15.50
% change year-on-year +62.47% +58.84% -11.43%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 25 April 2024. 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 -11 3 £625 +38.89% 31
Peterborough -1 2 - - 2
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:

Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
2 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 1 (20.00%) Gerrit
3 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Verification Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
1 2 (40.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) ASIC
1 2 (40.00%) FPGA
1 2 (40.00%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (40.00%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 2 (40.00%) Unix
3 1 (20.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (20.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Validation
2 2 (40.00%) Data Acquisition
2 2 (40.00%) Data Analysis
2 2 (40.00%) OO
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Signal Processing
2 2 (40.00%) UVM
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) Assembly Language
2 2 (40.00%) C
2 2 (40.00%) C++
2 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 2 (40.00%) SystemVerilog
2 2 (40.00%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Cadence
1 2 (40.00%) Siemens
1 2 (40.00%) Synopsys
1 2 (40.00%) Xilinx
2 1 (20.00%) Red Hat