Software Testing Contract Job Trends in East London

Software Testing
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in East London requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 17 35
Rank change year-on-year -4 +18 -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 1 5 4
As % of all contract jobs in East London 0.98% 4.46% 1.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% 5.00% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £495
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% -19.19% -
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - £423 -
London median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.42% -4.60% -4.76%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 91 100 254
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 89.22% 89.29% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 82 220
10th Percentile £190 £398 £400
25th Percentile £445 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £526 £579
Median % change year-on-year -0.24% -9.04% +10.20%
75th Percentile £647 £599 £650
90th Percentile £876 £650 £770
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 2 17
10th Percentile £21.26 £25.05 £11.95
25th Percentile £23.79 £25.65 £14.18
Median hourly rate £29.82 £26.63 £18.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% +40.68% -15.81%
75th Percentile £50.10 £27.62 £25.66
90th Percentile £81.07 £28.21 £38.28
London median hourly rate £34.27 £35.50 £30.50
% change year-on-year -3.46% +16.39% -18.67%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Software Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Software Testing job vacancy trend in East London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Test Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Test Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Data Extraction
1 1 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (100.00%) Database Migration
1 1 (100.00%) ETL
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SDET
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL