Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Guildford

Software Testing
Surrey > Guildford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Guildford requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 14 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Guildford 2.38% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.23% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 - -
Surrey median daily rate £330 £475 £450
% change year-on-year -30.53% +5.56% +28.57%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Guildford

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 Guildford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31 27 52
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Guildford 73.81% 96.43% 77.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 42
10th Percentile £202 £229 £187
25th Percentile £247 £269 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% -17.07% +5.13%
75th Percentile £416 £573 £550
90th Percentile £496 £595 £763
Surrey median daily rate £500 £473 £500
% change year-on-year +5.82% -5.50% -1.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 6 7
10th Percentile £56.00 £22.50 -
25th Percentile £60.00 £25.75 £11.71
Median hourly rate £65.00 £28.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +132.14% +60.00% -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £34.38
90th Percentile - £30.88 £54.65
Surrey median hourly rate £65.00 £25.00 £18.35
% change year-on-year +160.00% +36.24% -59.22%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Guildford

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Guildford

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Guildford

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Guildford citing Software Testing

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Guildford 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%) Datadog
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Applications Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Batch
1 1 (100.00%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Observability
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java