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 21 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 101 101
Rank change year-on-year -7 0 +34
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 24 20 31
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.07% 1.13% 1.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 1.22% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 14 20
10th Percentile £330 £404 £375
25th Percentile £419 £413 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £469 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.33% -6.25% -16.32%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £619
90th Percentile £709 £718 £753
Central London median daily rate £550 £438 £500
% change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% -16.32%

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 1,922 1,637 1,994
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.88% 92.80% 90.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,322 1,045 1,408
10th Percentile £363 £363 £352
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £565
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +1.77% -5.83%
75th Percentile £675 £678 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.72% +3.86% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 11 13
10th Percentile - £22.00 £19.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -42.20%
75th Percentile £52.16 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £63.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £30.04 £27.81
% change year-on-year -11.59% +8.00% -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 21 April 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 (4.17%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.17%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (4.17%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
1 7 (29.17%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (16.67%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) GitHub
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.17%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.17%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.17%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.17%) Nutanix
4 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.17%) Serverless
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
1 1 (4.17%) Firewall
1 1 (4.17%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (16.67%) Relational Database
2 2 (8.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (8.33%) MySQL
2 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.17%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 5 (20.83%) JIRA
2 4 (16.67%) Selenium
3 3 (12.50%) Git
4 2 (8.33%) Cucumber
4 2 (8.33%) Postman
5 1 (4.17%) Artifactory
5 1 (4.17%) Bitbucket
5 1 (4.17%) Cypress.io
5 1 (4.17%) GitLab
5 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
5 1 (4.17%) JMeter
5 1 (4.17%) REST Assured
5 1 (4.17%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (37.50%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Back Office
4 3 (12.50%) Front Office
4 3 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (8.33%) Military
5 2 (8.33%) Police
5 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
6 1 (4.17%) Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (29.17%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Senior
3 5 (20.83%) Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Analyst
4 3 (12.50%) Applications Tester
4 3 (12.50%) Developer in Test
4 3 (12.50%) Senior Developer
4 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Python Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Software Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Systems Tester
5 2 (8.33%) Test Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Applications Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Business Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Lead Test Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Procurement Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (29.17%) .NET
2 4 (16.67%) Playwright
3 3 (12.50%) RESTful
4 2 (8.33%) Django
4 2 (8.33%) GraphQL
4 2 (8.33%) React
4 2 (8.33%) WPF
5 1 (4.17%) CSS
5 1 (4.17%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.17%) HTML
5 1 (4.17%) JSON
5 1 (4.17%) Kafka
5 1 (4.17%) PySpark
5 1 (4.17%) pytest
5 1 (4.17%) REST
5 1 (4.17%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.17%) Data Structures
2 1 (4.17%) Derivative
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (4.17%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.17%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) Test Automation
2 10 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 8 (33.33%) DevOps
3 8 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 6 (25.00%) Agile
4 6 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 6 (25.00%) Test Management
4 6 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Defect Tracking
5 5 (20.83%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 4 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (16.67%) Defect Management
6 4 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 4 (16.67%) SDLC
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (12.50%) Refactoring
7 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 3 (12.50%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) SQL
2 6 (25.00%) Python
3 5 (20.83%) C#
3 5 (20.83%) Java
4 3 (12.50%) TypeScript
5 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
6 1 (4.17%) Bash
6 1 (4.17%) PL/SQL
6 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
6 1 (4.17%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) CCNA
3 1 (4.17%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.17%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.17%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (20.83%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (4.17%) Grafana
3 1 (4.17%) Packer
3 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
3 1 (4.17%) Puppet
3 1 (4.17%) Salt
Vendors
1 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Oracle
3 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.17%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) IBM
3 1 (4.17%) OpenLink
3 1 (4.17%) SmartStream
3 1 (4.17%) UiPath
3 1 (4.17%) VMware