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 17 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 102 98
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +47
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 18 18 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.87% 1.00% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.09% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 19
10th Percentile £298 £404 £373
25th Percentile £409 £413 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £565
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -17.04% -1.74%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £684
90th Percentile £689 £681 £775
Central London median daily rate £475 £500 £565
% change year-on-year -5.00% -11.50% -1.74%

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 1,828 1,645 2,104
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.27% 91.64% 89.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,260 1,048 1,496
10th Percentile £356 £363 £350
25th Percentile £436 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £541 £575 £568
Median % change year-on-year -5.87% +1.32% -5.42%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -6.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 9 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £32.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.62% -18.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £46.29 £48.75 £44.29
90th Percentile £59.13 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.75 £27.81
% change year-on-year -17.76% +14.17% -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 17 March 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 (5.56%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Algo Collateral
Cloud Services
1 8 (44.44%) Azure
1 8 (44.44%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (16.67%) AWS
2 3 (16.67%) GitHub
3 1 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (22.22%) Relational Database
2 2 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (11.11%) MySQL
2 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Selenium
2 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 3 (16.67%) Git
2 3 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (16.67%) Postman
3 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
4 1 (5.56%) JMeter
4 1 (5.56%) REST Assured
4 1 (5.56%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (38.89%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Front Office
3 2 (11.11%) Back Office
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Military
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Police
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Developer
2 4 (22.22%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (16.67%) Developer in Test
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 3 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Python Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 2 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (5.56%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (5.56%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) .NET
2 4 (22.22%) Playwright
3 3 (16.67%) RESTful
4 2 (11.11%) Django
4 2 (11.11%) GraphQL
4 2 (11.11%) React
4 2 (11.11%) WPF
5 1 (5.56%) CSS
5 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.56%) HTML
5 1 (5.56%) JSON
5 1 (5.56%) Kafka
5 1 (5.56%) pytest
5 1 (5.56%) REST
5 1 (5.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.56%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.56%) Derivative
1 1 (5.56%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) CI/CD
1 10 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 8 (44.44%) DevOps
3 7 (38.89%) Agile
4 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Validation
6 3 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 3 (16.67%) Defect Management
6 3 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
6 3 (16.67%) SDET
6 3 (16.67%) Software Engineering
6 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (16.67%) TDD
6 3 (16.67%) Test Management
6 3 (16.67%) Use Case
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (38.89%) SQL
2 6 (33.33%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) Java
3 5 (27.78%) Python
4 3 (16.67%) TypeScript
5 2 (11.11%) JavaScript
5 2 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.56%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Degree
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CCNA
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (38.89%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Packer
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
2 2 (11.11%) UiPath
3 1 (5.56%) IBM
3 1 (5.56%) SmartStream
3 1 (5.56%) VMware