Software Testing Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Software Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 97 92
Rank change year-on-year -17 -5 +29
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 21 19 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.90% 1.13% 1.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.21% 1.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 12 25
10th Percentile £281 £365 -
25th Percentile £416 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £438 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.06% -10.35% -25.50%
75th Percentile £596 £529 £619
90th Percentile £709 £714 £750
Central London median daily rate £508 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +19.47% -10.57% -23.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,983 1,566 1,961
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.03% 93.49% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 987 1,374
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 15 12
10th Percentile £17.84 £18.70 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £22.88 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.15 £25.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% +9.85% -26.79%
75th Percentile £52.49 £39.21 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.89 £57.75 £41.65
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £28.15 £27.81
% change year-on-year -5.67% +1.22% -20.54%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in the City of London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.76%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
1 5 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) AWS
3 3 (14.29%) GitHub
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.76%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.76%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.76%) GCP
4 1 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Broadband
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (19.05%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (19.05%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.52%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.76%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) JIRA
2 1 (4.76%) Appium
2 1 (4.76%) Artifactory
2 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
2 1 (4.76%) Git
2 1 (4.76%) GitLab
2 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.76%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (4.76%) MonkeyTalk
2 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.76%) Selendroid
2 1 (4.76%) Selenium
2 1 (4.76%) Visual Studio Code
2 1 (4.76%) XCUITest
2 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (23.81%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.52%) Back Office
4 2 (9.52%) Military
5 1 (4.76%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Front Office
5 1 (4.76%) Law
5 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Police
5 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Senior
2 6 (28.57%) Developer
3 4 (19.05%) Tester
4 3 (14.29%) Applications Tester
4 3 (14.29%) QA Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer in Test
5 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Software Developer
6 1 (4.76%) Findur Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Findur Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (4.76%) OpenLink Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) OpenLink Business Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) Senior Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) Playwright
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
3 2 (9.52%) Django
3 2 (9.52%) GraphQL
3 2 (9.52%) React
3 2 (9.52%) WPF
4 1 (4.76%) Android SDK
4 1 (4.76%) iOS SDK
4 1 (4.76%) Kafka
4 1 (4.76%) PySpark
4 1 (4.76%) pytest
4 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.76%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Linux
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (61.90%) Test Automation
2 9 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 6 (28.57%) DevOps
4 5 (23.81%) Defect Tracking
4 5 (23.81%) Regression Testing
4 5 (23.81%) SDLC
4 5 (23.81%) Test Management
4 5 (23.81%) Test Scripting
4 5 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) Containerisation
5 4 (19.05%) Defect Management
6 3 (14.29%) AI
6 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
6 3 (14.29%) Insurtech
6 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Software Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (14.29%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (33.33%) Python
1 7 (33.33%) SQL
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 3 (14.29%) C#
4 2 (9.52%) TypeScript
5 1 (4.76%) Bash
5 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.76%) Korn
5 1 (4.76%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.76%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (4.76%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Docker
2 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.76%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.76%) Puppet
2 1 (4.76%) Salt
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 3 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) OpenLink