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 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 99 92
Rank change year-on-year -15 -7 +25
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 22 18 35
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 1.03% 1.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 1.10% 1.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 25
10th Percentile £413 £365 £375
25th Percentile £444 £400 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £500
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -12.50% -23.43%
75th Percentile £650 £526 £619
90th Percentile £709 £623 £750
Central London median daily rate £550 £425 £494
% change year-on-year +29.41% -13.97% -22.27%

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 2,077 1,643 1,948
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.76% 93.78% 90.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,401 1,050 1,354
10th Percentile £365 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £551 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% -4.17% -4.17%
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 29 18 14
10th Percentile £17.53 £16.90 £20.01
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.29
Median hourly rate £23.16 £29.75 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -22.15% +11.74% -23.93%
75th Percentile £43.00 £54.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £60.78 £71.25 £47.73
Central London median hourly rate £27.25 £30.04 £27.41
% change year-on-year -9.27% +9.60% -21.70%

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 26 June 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Aladdin
1 1 (4.55%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 7 (31.82%) Azure
2 3 (13.64%) AWS
2 3 (13.64%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
3 2 (9.09%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Control Tower
4 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (4.55%) Azure AKS
4 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub
4 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (4.55%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (4.55%) SaaS
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%) Relational Database
2 2 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (9.09%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Athena
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon QuickSight
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (4.55%) MySQL
3 1 (4.55%) Pinecone
3 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (22.73%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Git
3 2 (9.09%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 2 (9.09%) Visual Studio
4 1 (4.55%) Appium
4 1 (4.55%) Artifactory
4 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.55%) GitLab
4 1 (4.55%) Jenkins
4 1 (4.55%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (4.55%) MonkeyTalk
4 1 (4.55%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.55%) Selendroid
4 1 (4.55%) Selenium
4 1 (4.55%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (4.55%) XCUITest
4 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (36.36%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Banking
3 4 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (9.09%) Back Office
5 2 (9.09%) Military
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Law
6 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.55%) Police
6 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Senior
2 4 (18.18%) Developer
2 4 (18.18%) Tester
3 3 (13.64%) Applications Tester
3 3 (13.64%) QA Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Developer in Test
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Business Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Procurement Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior Java Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (22.73%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) Playwright
3 2 (9.09%) RESTful
3 2 (9.09%) WPF
4 1 (4.55%) Android SDK
4 1 (4.55%) Django
4 1 (4.55%) FastAPI
4 1 (4.55%) Flask
4 1 (4.55%) GraphQL
4 1 (4.55%) Hugging Face
4 1 (4.55%) iOS SDK
4 1 (4.55%) Kafka
4 1 (4.55%) LangChain
4 1 (4.55%) LangGraph
4 1 (4.55%) LlamaIndex
4 1 (4.55%) PySpark
4 1 (4.55%) pytest
4 1 (4.55%) React
4 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.55%) AS400
3 1 (4.55%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.55%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (4.55%) Android
2 1 (4.55%) Apple iOS
2 1 (4.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (45.45%) CI/CD
3 7 (31.82%) Agile
3 7 (31.82%) SDLC
3 7 (31.82%) User Acceptance Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Defect Tracking
4 5 (22.73%) DevOps
4 5 (22.73%) Regression Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Software Engineering
4 5 (22.73%) Test Management
4 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
5 4 (18.18%) Defect Management
5 4 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.64%) AI
6 3 (13.64%) Asset Management
6 3 (13.64%) Containerisation
6 3 (13.64%) Insurtech
6 3 (13.64%) Manual Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 6 (27.27%) SQL
2 5 (22.73%) C#
2 5 (22.73%) Python
3 2 (9.09%) Java
3 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
4 1 (4.55%) Bash
4 1 (4.55%) COBOL
4 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.55%) Korn
4 1 (4.55%) RPG
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) SC Cleared
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.09%) Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 2 (9.09%) Accessibility
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
3 1 (4.55%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (4.55%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Docker
2 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Grafana
2 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
2 1 (4.55%) Puppet
2 1 (4.55%) Salt
2 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
2 1 (4.55%) Google
2 1 (4.55%) IBM
2 1 (4.55%) OpenLink
2 1 (4.55%) Oracle