Software Testing Contracts in the City of London

Software Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 93 122 117
Rank change year-on-year +29 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 31 49 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 1.43% 1.36% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.58% 1.48% 1.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 38 50
10th Percentile - £326 £411
25th Percentile £375 £456 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £598 £500
Median % change year-on-year -19.46% +19.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £612 £725 £580
90th Percentile £750 £841 £626
Central London median daily rate £481 £598 £510
% change year-on-year -19.46% +17.16% +7.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,968 3,305 3,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.57% 91.53% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,396 2,228 2,947
10th Percentile £363 £350 £388
25th Percentile £450 £479 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £676
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 26 41
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.13 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -13.58% +125.31%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

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 May 2024.

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 (6.45%) Apache
1 2 (6.45%) Apache Spark
1 2 (6.45%) WebLogic
1 2 (6.45%) WebSphere
2 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.45%) Endur
2 1 (3.23%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 5 (16.13%) AWS
1 5 (16.13%) Azure
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (9.68%) Amazon S3
2 3 (9.68%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (9.68%) Power Platform
2 3 (9.68%) Serverless
3 2 (6.45%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) BrowserStack
4 1 (3.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) Data Lake
1 3 (9.68%) Power BI
2 2 (6.45%) Apache Cassandra
2 2 (6.45%) MySQL
2 2 (6.45%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.23%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (3.23%) Big Data
3 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (41.94%) Selenium
2 7 (22.58%) Cucumber
3 6 (19.35%) Git
3 6 (19.35%) JUnit
3 6 (19.35%) REST Assured
4 5 (16.13%) Postman
5 4 (12.90%) TestNG
6 3 (9.68%) JIRA
6 3 (9.68%) SoapUI
7 2 (6.45%) Appium
7 2 (6.45%) eggPlant
7 2 (6.45%) HP UFT
7 2 (6.45%) Jenkins
7 2 (6.45%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (6.45%) Mockito
7 2 (6.45%) SOAtest
7 2 (6.45%) Subversion
7 2 (6.45%) TestComplete
7 2 (6.45%) Visual Studio Code
7 2 (6.45%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (19.35%) Finance
3 4 (12.90%) Back Office
3 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
4 3 (9.68%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (25.81%) Analyst
2 6 (19.35%) Senior
3 5 (16.13%) Tester
4 4 (12.90%) Developer
4 4 (12.90%) Software Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Test Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Data Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Data Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Insurance Business Analyst
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Software Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Senior Tester
5 3 (9.68%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.45%) Developer/Software Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Lead
6 2 (6.45%) Manual Tester
6 2 (6.45%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Scala Developer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.45%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.90%) .NET
2 3 (9.68%) .NET Framework
3 2 (6.45%) AngularJS
3 2 (6.45%) jQuery
3 2 (6.45%) Kafka
3 2 (6.45%) REST
3 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 2 (6.45%) SOAP
3 2 (6.45%) Spring
3 2 (6.45%) Spring Boot
3 2 (6.45%) Struts
3 2 (6.45%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (6.45%) Web Services
4 1 (3.23%) Middleware
4 1 (3.23%) Playwright
4 1 (3.23%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.45%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (3.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Android
2 2 (6.45%) Unix
3 1 (3.23%) Linux
3 1 (3.23%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (64.52%) Agile
2 19 (61.29%) Test Automation
3 9 (29.03%) CI/CD
3 9 (29.03%) SDET
3 9 (29.03%) Test Scripting
4 6 (19.35%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (19.35%) DevOps
4 6 (19.35%) Microservices
4 6 (19.35%) User Stories
5 5 (16.13%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (16.13%) Manual Testing
5 5 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (16.13%) SDLC
6 4 (12.90%) Integration Testing
6 4 (12.90%) Migration
6 4 (12.90%) Scrum
6 4 (12.90%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.90%) Test Strategy
7 3 (9.68%) Logistics
7 3 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (38.71%) Java
2 7 (22.58%) SQL
3 6 (19.35%) C#
4 5 (16.13%) Python
5 2 (6.45%) Kotlin
5 2 (6.45%) Scala
6 1 (3.23%) Bash
6 1 (3.23%) C++
6 1 (3.23%) Go
6 1 (3.23%) JavaScript
6 1 (3.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.13%) Degree
2 4 (12.90%) ISTQB
3 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
3 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
4 2 (6.45%) ISEB
5 1 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (16.13%) QA
2 1 (3.23%) Accessibility
2 1 (3.23%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 3 (9.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (9.68%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.23%) Ansible
2 1 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (16.13%) Oracle
2 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
3 3 (9.68%) Databricks
4 2 (6.45%) IBM
4 2 (6.45%) Micro Focus
4 2 (6.45%) OpenLink