Software Testing Contracts in Central London

Software Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 107 100 123
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 22 33 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.10% 1.35% 1.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.19% 1.49% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 22 39
10th Percentile £374 - £336
25th Percentile £400 £375 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.39% -16.30% +12.75%
75th Percentile £529 £612 £725
90th Percentile £713 £750 £836
London median daily rate £438 £457 £545
% change year-on-year -4.27% -16.15% +6.34%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,856 2,215 3,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 92.94% 90.56% 91.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,197 1,573 2,397
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £456 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £725
90th Percentile £774 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 25 28
10th Percentile £22.00 £20.04 £15.43
25th Percentile £22.75 £22.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%
75th Percentile £43.97 £33.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £50.75 £46.89 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London 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
City of London -5 20 £438 -9.09% 11
Southwark - 1 £425 -
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.55%) CMS
2 1 (4.55%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) Umbraco
2 1 (4.55%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.55%) SAP CRM
2 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 5 (22.73%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) Boomi
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Database
1 2 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (9.09%) Redis
2 1 (4.55%) Elasticsearch
2 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Jenkins
2 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 2 (9.09%) JUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Maven
3 2 (9.09%) Mockito
3 2 (9.09%) NUnit
3 2 (9.09%) Postman
3 2 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 2 (9.09%) SoapUI
3 2 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 2 (9.09%) Subversion
3 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio Team System
3 2 (9.09%) WebDriver
3 2 (9.09%) Xcode
3 2 (9.09%) XCTest
4 1 (4.55%) JMeter
General
1 8 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 7 (31.82%) Finance
3 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Billing
4 1 (4.55%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Developer
2 3 (13.64%) QA Engineer
2 3 (13.64%) Tester
3 2 (9.09%) Developer in Test
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Senior
3 2 (9.09%) Software Developer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
3 2 (9.09%) Software Tester
4 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Lead
4 1 (4.55%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) Python Engineer
4 1 (4.55%) SDLC Manager
4 1 (4.55%) SDLC Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) HTML
2 5 (22.73%) Bootstrap
3 4 (18.18%) CSS
4 3 (13.64%) .NET
4 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET
4 3 (13.64%) Web Services
5 2 (9.09%) .NET Framework
5 2 (9.09%) ADO
5 2 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web Forms
5 2 (9.09%) Hibernate
5 2 (9.09%) HTML5
5 2 (9.09%) J2EE
5 2 (9.09%) JPA
5 2 (9.09%) jQuery
5 2 (9.09%) JSON
5 2 (9.09%) Kafka
5 2 (9.09%) LINQ
5 2 (9.09%) SOAP
5 2 (9.09%) Spring
5 2 (9.09%) Spring MVC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.09%) Data Structures
2 2 (9.09%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 8 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (31.82%) SDLC
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) CI/CD
4 6 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (22.73%) Test Strategy
5 5 (22.73%) Unit Testing
6 4 (18.18%) CRM
6 4 (18.18%) DevOps
6 4 (18.18%) MVC
6 4 (18.18%) Performance Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 4 (18.18%) TDD
7 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
7 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) Test Management
7 3 (13.64%) Test Scripting
7 3 (13.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 8 (36.36%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 3 (13.64%) Java
3 3 (13.64%) Shell Script
4 2 (9.09%) Groovy
5 1 (4.55%) ABAP
5 1 (4.55%) Bash
5 1 (4.55%) Bicep
5 1 (4.55%) C#
5 1 (4.55%) COBOL
5 1 (4.55%) JCL
5 1 (4.55%) PHP
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
3 1 (4.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (40.91%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Kubernetes
2 4 (18.18%) Ansible
3 3 (13.64%) Terraform
4 1 (4.55%) Argo
4 1 (4.55%) Progress Chef
4 1 (4.55%) Puppet
4 1 (4.55%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
2 2 (9.09%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Workday
3 1 (4.55%) SAP