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 17 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 99 108
Rank change year-on-year -13 +9 +43
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 25 34 63
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.22% 1.43% 1.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% 1.57% 1.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 25 54
10th Percentile £359 - £295
25th Percentile £362 £375 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £620
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -25.40% +21.57%
75th Percentile £553 £593 £706
90th Percentile £735 £646 £818
London median daily rate £425 £475 £550
% change year-on-year -10.53% -13.64% +5.77%

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 1,919 2,171 3,369
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 93.66% 91.30% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,254 1,506 2,282
10th Percentile £338 £363 £325
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.65% -5.83% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £683 £723
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 24 25
10th Percentile £22.08 £20.01 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £21.63 £16.61
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.86% -20.54% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £88.38 £88.30
London median hourly rate £31.00 £32.40 £41.04
% change year-on-year -4.31% -21.06% +14.00%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 -6 20 £466 -1.89% 9
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 (8.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.00%) CMS
2 1 (4.00%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (4.00%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 9 (36.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.00%) AWS
3 2 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.00%) Boomi
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (4.00%) GCP
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub
4 1 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.00%) Oracle Database
1 5 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 5 (20.00%) Redis
Development Applications
1 7 (28.00%) Git
2 6 (24.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 5 (20.00%) JIRA
3 5 (20.00%) JUnit
3 5 (20.00%) Maven
3 5 (20.00%) Mockito
3 5 (20.00%) Postman
3 5 (20.00%) REST Assured
3 5 (20.00%) SoapUI
3 5 (20.00%) SonarQube
3 5 (20.00%) Subversion
3 5 (20.00%) Xcode
3 5 (20.00%) XCTest
4 3 (12.00%) Selenium
5 2 (8.00%) NUnit
5 2 (8.00%) Visual Studio Team System
6 1 (4.00%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.00%) JMeter
6 1 (4.00%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (32.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Banking
4 3 (12.00%) Billing
5 1 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Developer
2 3 (12.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Tester
3 2 (8.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (8.00%) Software Tester
3 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Lead
4 1 (4.00%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.00%) Software Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Test Development Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (32.00%) HTML
2 7 (28.00%) Bootstrap
3 6 (24.00%) CSS
3 6 (24.00%) Kafka
3 6 (24.00%) REST
3 6 (24.00%) Spring
3 6 (24.00%) Web Services
4 5 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 5 (20.00%) CSS3
4 5 (20.00%) Hibernate
4 5 (20.00%) HTML5
4 5 (20.00%) J2EE
4 5 (20.00%) JPA
4 5 (20.00%) Material-UI
4 5 (20.00%) SOAP
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Boot
4 5 (20.00%) Spring Cloud
4 5 (20.00%) Spring MVC
4 5 (20.00%) Swagger
5 2 (8.00%) ASP.NET Core
Miscellaneous
1 6 (24.00%) Distributed Systems
2 4 (16.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (8.00%) Data Structures
3 2 (8.00%) Mainframe
4 1 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.00%) Derivative
4 1 (4.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (24.00%) Unix
2 1 (4.00%) Linux
2 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (44.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (40.00%) Agile
3 10 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (40.00%) SDLC
4 7 (28.00%) MVC
4 7 (28.00%) TDD
4 7 (28.00%) Unit Testing
5 6 (24.00%) Code Quality
5 6 (24.00%) Concurrent Programming
5 6 (24.00%) Multithreading
5 6 (24.00%) Software Architecture
6 5 (20.00%) Architectural Design
6 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
6 5 (20.00%) Front End Development
6 5 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
6 5 (20.00%) Integration Patterns
6 5 (20.00%) Mentoring
6 5 (20.00%) Microservices
6 5 (20.00%) Static Code Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (44.00%) SQL
2 8 (32.00%) JavaScript
3 7 (28.00%) Java
4 5 (20.00%) Groovy
4 5 (20.00%) Shell Script
5 4 (16.00%) Python
6 1 (4.00%) ABAP
6 1 (4.00%) Assembly Language
6 1 (4.00%) Bash
6 1 (4.00%) Bicep
6 1 (4.00%) COBOL
6 1 (4.00%) JCL
6 1 (4.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (12.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (12.00%) Degree
2 2 (8.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (32.00%) QA
2 3 (12.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (4.00%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.00%) Ansible
3 1 (4.00%) Argo
3 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
2 5 (20.00%) Dynatrace
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.00%) Splunk
3 2 (8.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (8.00%) Workday
4 1 (4.00%) MuleSoft
4 1 (4.00%) SAP
4 1 (4.00%) SimCorp