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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 110 104 99
Rank change year-on-year -6 -5 +39
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 20 17 33
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.95% 0.97% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 1.05% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 22
10th Percentile £298 £403 £375
25th Percentile £409 £413 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £538
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -18.60% -17.31%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £619
90th Percentile £689 £688 £773
Central London median daily rate £475 £469 £538
% change year-on-year +1.33% -12.79% -17.31%

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 1,862 1,616 2,098
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.04% 92.18% 89.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,289 1,033 1,490
10th Percentile £362 £363 £350
25th Percentile £446 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 8 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £19.11 £24.00 £20.07
Median hourly rate £27.75 £31.75 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.60% +27.00% -45.65%
75th Percentile £46.29 £36.94 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.13 £45.25 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -15.77% +11.47% -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 24 March 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 (5.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Algo Collateral
1 1 (5.00%) Findur
Cloud Services
1 8 (40.00%) Azure
1 8 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) GitHub
3 1 (5.00%) GCP
3 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (5.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
1 4 (20.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (10.00%) MySQL
2 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Selenium
2 4 (20.00%) JIRA
3 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
3 3 (15.00%) Git
3 3 (15.00%) Postman
4 2 (10.00%) Bitbucket
5 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.00%) JMeter
5 1 (5.00%) REST Assured
5 1 (5.00%) WebDriver
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Back Office
2 3 (15.00%) Front Office
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Military
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Police
4 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) Analyst
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Developer in Test
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Developer
3 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Business Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Python Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Developer
4 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Applications Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Business Test Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) DevOps Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Business Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Java Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 4 (20.00%) Playwright
3 3 (15.00%) RESTful
4 2 (10.00%) Django
4 2 (10.00%) GraphQL
4 2 (10.00%) React
4 2 (10.00%) WPF
5 1 (5.00%) CSS
5 1 (5.00%) Gherkin
5 1 (5.00%) HTML
5 1 (5.00%) JSON
5 1 (5.00%) Kafka
5 1 (5.00%) PySpark
5 1 (5.00%) pytest
5 1 (5.00%) REST
5 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (5.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (5.00%) Derivative
1 1 (5.00%) Distributed Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (5.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 10 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 8 (40.00%) Agile
3 8 (40.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (30.00%) Test Scripting
5 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (20.00%) Regression Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Validation
6 3 (15.00%) Containerisation
6 3 (15.00%) Defect Management
6 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) SDET
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) TDD
6 3 (15.00%) Test Management
6 3 (15.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) SQL
2 6 (30.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) Java
3 5 (25.00%) Python
4 3 (15.00%) TypeScript
5 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
5 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
6 1 (5.00%) PL/SQL
6 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (15.00%) Degree
3 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.00%) CCNA
4 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Packer
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
2 2 (10.00%) UiPath
3 1 (5.00%) Google
3 1 (5.00%) IBM
3 1 (5.00%) OpenLink
3 1 (5.00%) SmartStream
3 1 (5.00%) VMware