Software Testing Contracts in the City of London

Software Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 94 129
Rank change year-on-year -5 +35 -9
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 20 33 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.14% 1.50% 1.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.22% 1.66% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 22 39
10th Percentile £400 - £336
25th Percentile £413 £375 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £481 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -16.30% +15.00%
75th Percentile £588 £612 £725
90th Percentile £718 £750 £836
Central London median daily rate £431 £481 £575
% change year-on-year -10.39% -16.30% +12.75%

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 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the City of London

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the City of London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London Bridge - 1 £425 -
Software Testing
Central London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Umbraco
2 1 (5.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) AWS
2 4 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.00%) Boomi
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (5.00%) Azure AKS
4 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub
4 1 (5.00%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (5.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
1 3 (15.00%) Selenium
2 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (10.00%) NUnit
2 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio Team System
2 2 (10.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (5.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.00%) JIRA
3 1 (5.00%) JMeter
3 1 (5.00%) PHPUnit
3 1 (5.00%) WebStorm
General
1 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Billing
4 1 (5.00%) Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Corporate Banking
4 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Developer
2 3 (15.00%) QA Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) Tester
3 2 (10.00%) Developer in Test
3 2 (10.00%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior
3 2 (10.00%) Software Developer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Gen AI Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Lead
4 1 (5.00%) Lead Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) Middle Office Analyst
4 1 (5.00%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.00%) SDLC Manager
4 1 (5.00%) SDLC Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) HTML
2 3 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (15.00%) Bootstrap
3 2 (10.00%) .NET Framework
3 2 (10.00%) ADO
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Core
3 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET Web Forms
3 2 (10.00%) CSS
3 2 (10.00%) Entity Framework
3 2 (10.00%) Gherkin
3 2 (10.00%) jQuery
3 2 (10.00%) JSON
3 2 (10.00%) LINQ
3 2 (10.00%) LINQ to SQL
4 1 (5.00%) Node.js
4 1 (5.00%) NumPy
4 1 (5.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) SailPoint
4 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.00%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 6 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (25.00%) SDLC
3 5 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 4 (20.00%) Agile
4 4 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (20.00%) CRM
4 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 4 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 4 (20.00%) Software Engineering
5 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (15.00%) SDET
5 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.00%) Test Management
5 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
5 3 (15.00%) Unit Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (5.00%) ABAP
3 1 (5.00%) Bash
3 1 (5.00%) Bicep
3 1 (5.00%) C#
3 1 (5.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) PHP
3 1 (5.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (45.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Ansible
2 3 (15.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.00%) Terraform
3 1 (5.00%) Argo
3 1 (5.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (5.00%) Puppet
3 1 (5.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Workday
3 1 (5.00%) SAP