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 17 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 101 110
Rank change year-on-year -9 +9 +53
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 17 18 23
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.92% 0.95% 0.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 1.03% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 13 14
10th Percentile £265 - £366
25th Percentile £388 £413 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £595 £588
Median % change year-on-year -20.17% +1.28% +11.90%
75th Percentile £631 £638 £750
90th Percentile £676 £688 £775
Central London median daily rate £467 £595 £588
% change year-on-year -21.47% +1.28% +11.90%
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 & 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 1,651 1,750 2,174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.39% 92.06% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,066 1,552
10th Percentile £350 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.75%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £770 £791 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £571
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.66% -1.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 10
10th Percentile £19.98 £13.73 £17.00
25th Percentile £20.66 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £27.75 £35.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.83% +35.24% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.12 £94.94 £44.56
90th Percentile £45.08 £114.55 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -25.40% +25.85% -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 17 January 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 (5.88%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Algo Collateral
Cloud Services
1 5 (29.41%) Azure
1 5 (29.41%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (23.53%) AWS
3 2 (11.76%) GitHub
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon Bedrock
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon OpenSearch
4 1 (5.88%) Amazon S3
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Step Functions
4 1 (5.88%) Nutanix
4 1 (5.88%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.88%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (17.65%) Relational Database
3 2 (11.76%) MySQL
3 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
4 1 (5.88%) DynamoDB
4 1 (5.88%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) Selenium
2 3 (17.65%) Cucumber
2 3 (17.65%) Git
2 3 (17.65%) Postman
3 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (11.76%) JIRA
4 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
4 1 (5.88%) JMeter
4 1 (5.88%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Front Office
2 3 (17.65%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Back Office
3 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
4 1 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.88%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.88%) Police
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Developer
2 3 (17.65%) Test Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Consultant
3 2 (11.76%) Python Developer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Tester
4 1 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) AWS Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Developer in Test
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (5.88%) Migration Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 2 (11.76%) Django
2 2 (11.76%) GraphQL
2 2 (11.76%) React
2 2 (11.76%) RESTful
3 1 (5.88%) AWS CDK
3 1 (5.88%) CSS
3 1 (5.88%) Faiss
3 1 (5.88%) FastAPI
3 1 (5.88%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.88%) HTML
3 1 (5.88%) JSON
3 1 (5.88%) LangChain
3 1 (5.88%) LangGraph
3 1 (5.88%) Playwright
3 1 (5.88%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.88%) Data Structures
2 1 (5.88%) Derivative
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) CI/CD
1 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) DevOps
3 6 (35.29%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
5 4 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Validation
6 3 (17.65%) Computer Science
6 3 (17.65%) Containerisation
6 3 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (17.65%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) API Development
7 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Rapid Prototyping
7 2 (11.76%) System Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Test Management
7 2 (11.76%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) Python
2 5 (29.41%) Java
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 3 (17.65%) C#
4 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
5 1 (5.88%) C++
5 1 (5.88%) Fortran
5 1 (5.88%) MATLAB
5 1 (5.88%) PL/SQL
5 1 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 1 (5.88%) R
5 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 3 (17.65%) Computer Science Degree
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.88%) CCNA
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.88%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) QA
System Software
1 4 (23.53%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Kubernetes
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
2 1 (5.88%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Packer
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle
1 2 (11.76%) UiPath
2 1 (5.88%) IBM
2 1 (5.88%) MuleSoft
2 1 (5.88%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.88%) SmartStream
2 1 (5.88%) VMware