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 12 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 108 106
Rank change year-on-year 0 -2 +53
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 16 20 36
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 0.96% 1.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 1.04% 1.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 30
10th Percentile £416 £383 £453
25th Percentile £471 £413 £528
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £595 £620
Median % change year-on-year -0.84% -4.03% +24.00%
75th Percentile £676 £630 £695
90th Percentile £749 £638 £775
Central London median daily rate £543 £535 £620
% change year-on-year +1.40% -13.71% +24.00%
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 1,633 1,914 2,481
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.80% 91.49% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 1,173 1,741
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £419 £469 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - -
75th Percentile £675 £688 £694
90th Percentile £764 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 17 16
10th Percentile £16.96 £16.70 £15.63
25th Percentile £20.18 £23.13 £17.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £42.50 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -35.29% +29.77% -30.13%
75th Percentile £41.75 £112.00 £52.63
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £71.25
Central London median hourly rate £27.04 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -22.76% +27.27% -36.22%

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 12 November 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (6.25%) SimCorp Dimension
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
1 2 (12.50%) Azure
1 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon OpenSearch
2 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (6.25%) AWS Step Functions
2 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 3 (18.75%) Cucumber
2 3 (18.75%) Postman
3 2 (12.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (12.50%) Git
3 2 (12.50%) JIRA
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) Gradle
4 1 (6.25%) JMeter
4 1 (6.25%) WebDriver
General
1 7 (43.75%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Banking
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Front Office
4 2 (12.50%) Back Office
4 2 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
5 1 (6.25%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (6.25%) Police
5 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (18.75%) Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Developer
1 3 (18.75%) Test Analyst
1 3 (18.75%) Test Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
2 2 (12.50%) Tester
3 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Developer in Test
3 1 (6.25%) Migration Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Consultant
3 1 (6.25%) SimCorp Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.25%) Software Engineer
3 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
3 1 (6.25%) XML Analyst
3 1 (6.25%) z/OS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) .NET
2 1 (6.25%) AWS CDK
2 1 (6.25%) CSS
2 1 (6.25%) Faiss
2 1 (6.25%) FastAPI
2 1 (6.25%) FpML
2 1 (6.25%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.25%) HTML
2 1 (6.25%) JSON
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) LangChain
2 1 (6.25%) LangGraph
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) Spring
2 1 (6.25%) Web Services
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Cloud Native
1 2 (12.50%) Derivative
1 2 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (6.25%) AI Agents
2 1 (6.25%) Data Structures
2 1 (6.25%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (6.25%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (6.25%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.25%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (6.25%) Unix
2 1 (6.25%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Test Automation
2 8 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (43.75%) Agile
3 7 (43.75%) CI/CD
4 6 (37.50%) DevOps
5 5 (31.25%) Test Scripting
5 5 (31.25%) Validation
6 4 (25.00%) Computer Science
6 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Performance Testing
7 3 (18.75%) Software Engineering
8 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
8 2 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Rapid Prototyping
8 2 (12.50%) System Testing
8 2 (12.50%) Test Management
8 2 (12.50%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 3 (18.75%) C#
3 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (12.50%) SQL
3 2 (12.50%) VB.NET
4 1 (6.25%) Assembly Language
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
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.25%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.25%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Ansible
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) UiPath
2 1 (6.25%) IBM
2 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle
2 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.25%) SimCorp
2 1 (6.25%) SmartStream