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 18 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 99 101
Rank change year-on-year -20 +2 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 29 18 27
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.29% 1.03% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.09% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 12 18
10th Percentile £463 £366 -
25th Percentile £475 £422 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £444
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +32.96% -28.43%
75th Percentile £638 £697 £528
90th Percentile £688 £770 £632
Central London median daily rate £550 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +22.22% +5.88% -31.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.50 -
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 2,001 1,650 1,936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 89.05% 94.12% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,381 1,099 1,222
10th Percentile £368 £324 £375
25th Percentile £456 £415 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 21 16
10th Percentile - £17.08 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £21.75 £28.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.74% +4.26% +8.00%
75th Percentile £32.57 £56.75 £82.19
90th Percentile £51.54 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £26.13 £28.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -8.32% -18.57% +34.62%

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 18 September 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 2 (6.90%) Confluence
1 2 (6.90%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Aladdin
Cloud Services
1 9 (31.03%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) AWS
3 4 (13.79%) GitHub
4 3 (10.34%) GitHub Copilot
4 3 (10.34%) Power Platform
5 2 (6.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (6.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (6.90%) GCP
5 2 (6.90%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 2 (6.90%) Serverless
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (3.45%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (3.45%) AWS Control Tower
6 1 (3.45%) Azure AKS
6 1 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Firewall
1 1 (3.45%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) Relational Database
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Athena
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon QuickSight
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (3.45%) Chroma
2 1 (3.45%) DynamoDB
2 1 (3.45%) Milvus
2 1 (3.45%) Pinecone
Development Applications
1 6 (20.69%) Selenium
2 5 (17.24%) Git
2 5 (17.24%) JIRA
3 3 (10.34%) Appium
3 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
3 3 (10.34%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (10.34%) Visual Studio
4 2 (6.90%) eggPlant
4 2 (6.90%) GitLab
4 2 (6.90%) HP UFT
4 2 (6.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (6.90%) JMeter
4 2 (6.90%) Postman
4 2 (6.90%) SoapUI
4 2 (6.90%) WebDriver
4 2 (6.90%) Zephyr
5 1 (3.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (3.45%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.45%) Rational Functional Tester
5 1 (3.45%) SilkTest
General
1 10 (34.48%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Banking
2 9 (31.03%) Social Skills
3 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Automotive
6 1 (3.45%) Back Office
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.45%) Military
6 1 (3.45%) Police
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (20.69%) Senior
2 5 (17.24%) Developer
2 5 (17.24%) Test Manager
3 4 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) QA Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Software Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Applications Tester
4 3 (10.34%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 3 (10.34%) Senior QA Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Azure Developer
5 2 (6.90%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Developer in Test
5 2 (6.90%) Python Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) QA Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 2 (6.90%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (34.48%) .NET
2 3 (10.34%) AngularJS
2 3 (10.34%) HTML
2 3 (10.34%) Web Services
3 2 (6.90%) Kafka
3 2 (6.90%) Node.js
3 2 (6.90%) Playwright
3 2 (6.90%) SOAP
3 2 (6.90%) XBRL
3 2 (6.90%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) CSS
4 1 (3.45%) Gherkin
4 1 (3.45%) iOS SDK
4 1 (3.45%) Jest
4 1 (3.45%) JSON
4 1 (3.45%) Middleware
4 1 (3.45%) PySpark
4 1 (3.45%) RESTful
4 1 (3.45%) Terraform
4 1 (3.45%) Vue
Miscellaneous
1 6 (20.69%) Cloud Native
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
2 4 (13.79%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (10.34%) Distributed Systems
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Applications
4 2 (6.90%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.45%) AS400
5 1 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.79%) Linux
1 4 (13.79%) Unix
2 2 (6.90%) Android
2 2 (6.90%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (58.62%) CI/CD
1 17 (58.62%) Test Automation
2 13 (44.83%) Agile
3 10 (34.48%) SDLC
4 9 (31.03%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (27.59%) AI
5 8 (27.59%) Regression Testing
6 7 (24.14%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (24.14%) Full-Stack Development
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) Defect Management
7 6 (20.69%) Test Management
7 6 (20.69%) Test Scripting
7 6 (20.69%) Test Strategy
8 5 (17.24%) DevOps
8 5 (17.24%) End-to-End Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Scrum
8 5 (17.24%) Software Delivery
8 5 (17.24%) Software Engineering
9 4 (13.79%) Containerisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) SQL
2 8 (27.59%) Python
3 7 (24.14%) Java
4 6 (20.69%) C#
5 4 (13.79%) Korn
6 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
7 2 (6.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (3.45%) Bash
8 1 (3.45%) COBOL
8 1 (3.45%) PL/SQL
8 1 (3.45%) RPG
8 1 (3.45%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 10 (34.48%) SC Cleared
1 10 (34.48%) Security Cleared
2 4 (13.79%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (6.90%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) ISEB
4 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.45%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (41.38%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
3 1 (3.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) Docker
2 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.45%) Ansible
2 1 (3.45%) Grafana
2 1 (3.45%) HP Fortify
2 1 (3.45%) Prometheus
2 1 (3.45%) Puppet
2 1 (3.45%) Salt
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.34%) IBM
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle
3 2 (6.90%) SAP
4 1 (3.45%) Avaloq
4 1 (3.45%) Databricks
4 1 (3.45%) Fortinet
4 1 (3.45%) Google
4 1 (3.45%) Guidewire