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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 95 107
Rank change year-on-year -8 +12 +35
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 19 35 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.05% 1.64% 1.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 1.79% 1.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 25 49
10th Percentile £369 £375 £379
25th Percentile £400 £395 £505
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £488 £625
Median % change year-on-year -10.35% -21.92% +25.00%
75th Percentile £605 £619 £725
90th Percentile £705 £713 £825
Central London median daily rate £431 £475 £620
% change year-on-year -9.26% -23.35% +24.00%

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 1,705 1,952 3,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.84% 91.26% 91.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 1,349 2,158
10th Percentile £350 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £725
90th Percentile £775 £800 £825
Central London median daily rate £552 £560 £600
% change year-on-year -1.43% -6.67% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 24
10th Percentile £17.08 £19.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £16.33
Median hourly rate £31.00 £26.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.43% -23.93% -18.83%
75th Percentile £56.75 £40.46 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.50 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £32.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.37% -22.86% -18.13%

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 5 July 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
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 (10.53%) SharePoint
2 1 (5.26%) CMS
2 1 (5.26%) Umbraco
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP CRM
2 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
2 4 (21.05%) Azure
3 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (10.53%) Boomi
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (5.26%) GCP
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub
4 1 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Development Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) NUnit
2 2 (10.53%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) Gradle
3 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.26%) JMeter
3 1 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 6 (31.58%) Analytical Skills
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Billing
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (26.32%) Developer
2 3 (15.79%) QA Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Power Platform Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Software Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Java Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) SAP CRM Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Senior
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Software Development Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Test Development Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) HTML
2 2 (10.53%) .NET
2 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
2 2 (10.53%) ADO
2 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
2 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Core
2 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET Web Forms
2 2 (10.53%) Bootstrap
2 2 (10.53%) Entity Framework
2 2 (10.53%) jQuery
2 2 (10.53%) LINQ
2 2 (10.53%) LINQ to SQL
3 1 (5.26%) CSS
3 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
3 1 (5.26%) JSON
3 1 (5.26%) Kafka
3 1 (5.26%) Middleware
3 1 (5.26%) REST
3 1 (5.26%) Web Services
3 1 (5.26%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Derivative
3 1 (5.26%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Mainframe
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
1 1 (5.26%) Unix
1 1 (5.26%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Test Automation
2 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (26.32%) Agile
3 5 (26.32%) CI/CD
3 5 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (26.32%) SDLC
4 4 (21.05%) CRM
4 4 (21.05%) Performance Testing
4 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
4 4 (21.05%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Computer Science
5 3 (15.79%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Integration Testing
5 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (15.79%) Test Management
5 3 (15.79%) Validation
6 2 (10.53%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (10.53%) TDD
6 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 4 (21.05%) Python
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (10.53%) Java
5 1 (5.26%) ABAP
5 1 (5.26%) Assembly Language
5 1 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (5.26%) Bicep
5 1 (5.26%) REXX
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (15.79%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (42.11%) QA
2 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
3 1 (5.26%) ISO 9001
3 1 (5.26%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) Argo
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Salesforce
2 2 (10.53%) Workday
3 1 (5.26%) MuleSoft
3 1 (5.26%) SAP