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 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 99 94
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +35
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 22 20 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 1.14% 1.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.12% 1.22% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 14 22
10th Percentile £298 £400 -
25th Percentile £413 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £481
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -9.09% -16.30%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £612
90th Percentile £709 £718 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £431 £481
% change year-on-year +27.54% -10.39% -16.30%

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 1,963 1,636 1,988
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.27% 93.17% 90.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,336 1,032 1,406
10th Percentile £363 £363 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £806
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 12 11
10th Percentile £18.14 £22.00 £19.92
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.58 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +18.30% -28.57%
75th Percentile £47.41 £45.00 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £62.25 £41.84
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £29.07 £27.81
% change year-on-year -10.18% +4.53% -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 1 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.55%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (4.55%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
1 7 (31.82%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 3 (13.64%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Serverless
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Broadband
1 1 (4.55%) Firewall
1 1 (4.55%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (18.18%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) MySQL
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (13.64%) Git
2 3 (13.64%) Selenium
3 2 (9.09%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Bitbucket
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) JMeter
4 1 (4.55%) Postman
4 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Back Office
3 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Front Office
4 2 (9.09%) Military
4 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Police
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Developer
2 6 (27.27%) Senior
3 5 (22.73%) Tester
4 3 (13.64%) Applications Tester
4 3 (13.64%) Developer in Test
4 3 (13.64%) Senior Developer
4 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (9.09%) Systems Tester
5 2 (9.09%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Coordinator
6 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
6 1 (4.55%) QA Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
6 1 (4.55%) Test Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (27.27%) .NET
2 4 (18.18%) Playwright
3 3 (13.64%) RESTful
4 2 (9.09%) Django
4 2 (9.09%) GraphQL
4 2 (9.09%) React
4 2 (9.09%) WPF
5 1 (4.55%) CSS
5 1 (4.55%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.55%) HTML
5 1 (4.55%) JSON
5 1 (4.55%) Kafka
5 1 (4.55%) PySpark
5 1 (4.55%) pytest
5 1 (4.55%) REST
5 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.55%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.55%) Derivative
2 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) Test Automation
2 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) DevOps
3 8 (36.36%) Test Scripting
4 6 (27.27%) Agile
4 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Defect Tracking
5 5 (22.73%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (22.73%) Test Management
6 4 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
6 4 (18.18%) SDLC
7 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
7 3 (13.64%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
7 3 (13.64%) Refactoring
7 3 (13.64%) Software Engineering
7 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.64%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 6 (27.27%) Python
3 5 (22.73%) Java
4 4 (18.18%) C#
5 3 (13.64%) TypeScript
6 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
7 1 (4.55%) Bash
7 1 (4.55%) PL/SQL
7 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
7 1 (4.55%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) CCNA
3 1 (4.55%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
3 1 (4.55%) Grafana
3 1 (4.55%) Packer
3 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.55%) Puppet
3 1 (4.55%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 2 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.55%) Google
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) OpenLink
3 1 (4.55%) SmartStream
3 1 (4.55%) UiPath
3 1 (4.55%) VMware