Software Testing Contracts in Croydon

Software Testing
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Croydon 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 26 31 34
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -8
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 1 3 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Croydon 1.10% 2.07% 1.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.20% 2.16% 1.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - +35.71%
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - £492
South London median daily rate £553 £465 £475
% change year-on-year +18.82% -2.11% +18.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 83 139 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 91.21% 95.86% 96.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 85 137
10th Percentile £425 £363 £450
25th Percentile £463 £425 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £650
90th Percentile £678 £630 £725
South London median daily rate £525 £500 £540
% change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 11 0
Median hourly rate - £23.50 -
South London median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
% change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Croydon.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Croydon

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Croydon.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Croydon

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Croydon

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Croydon.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Croydon

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Croydon 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) Developer in Test
1 1 (100.00%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Open Source
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared