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 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 109 104
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +45
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 16 22 41
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.93% 1.04% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.13% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 35
10th Percentile £362 £375 £403
25th Percentile £413 £394 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £488 £620
Median % change year-on-year +18.85% -21.29% +24.00%
75th Percentile £676 £618 £700
90th Percentile £758 £635 £765
Central London median daily rate £450 £494 £600
% change year-on-year -8.91% -17.67% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £27.50 - -
75th Percentile £28.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 - -

All Process and 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 1,629 1,950 2,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 92.07% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,111 1,208 1,778
10th Percentile £325 £366 £371
25th Percentile £424 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 16
10th Percentile £16.90 £17.15 £14.25
25th Percentile £20.63 £24.09 £16.31
Median hourly rate £27.04 £40.50 £31.25
Median % change year-on-year -33.25% +29.60% -27.53%
75th Percentile £35.88 £107.13 £48.19
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £60.88
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -35.67%

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 14 October 2025.

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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) DynamoDB
1 1 (6.25%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Selenium
2 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
3 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
3 1 (6.25%) Git
3 1 (6.25%) Gradle
3 1 (6.25%) JMeter
3 1 (6.25%) Postman
3 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 4 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (18.75%) Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Back Office
5 1 (6.25%) Front Office
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Investment Banking
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Developer
1 4 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Analyst
2 2 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) C++ Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Integration Test Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) Java Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Python Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Tester
3 1 (6.25%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
1 1 (6.25%) CSS
1 1 (6.25%) Faiss
1 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
1 1 (6.25%) FpML
1 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
1 1 (6.25%) HTML
1 1 (6.25%) JSON
1 1 (6.25%) Kafka
1 1 (6.25%) LangChain
1 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
1 1 (6.25%) REST
1 1 (6.25%) Spring
1 1 (6.25%) Web Services
1 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Derivative
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
3 8 (50.00%) Agile
4 6 (37.50%) CI/CD
5 5 (31.25%) Computer Science
5 5 (31.25%) DevOps
6 4 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
7 3 (18.75%) Case Management
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
7 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 2 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
8 2 (12.50%) SDLC
8 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Python
2 4 (25.00%) Java
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.25%) Assembly Language
4 1 (6.25%) C#
4 1 (6.25%) C++
4 1 (6.25%) Fortran
4 1 (6.25%) MATLAB
4 1 (6.25%) R
4 1 (6.25%) REXX
4 1 (6.25%) SQL
4 1 (6.25%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (31.25%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) Security Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Salesforce
2 2 (12.50%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) SimCorp
3 1 (6.25%) UiPath