Software Testing Contracts in Hampshire

Software Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 90 74
Rank change year-on-year +46 -16 -22
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 26 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 3.40% 0.81% 1.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.81% 1.00% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 11
10th Percentile £375 £259 £236
25th Percentile £388 £395 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -13.51% +5.71%
75th Percentile £488 £494 £553
90th Percentile £519 £554 £581
South East median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 7
10th Percentile £50.00 £60.80 £50.75
25th Percentile £51.42 - £53.13
Median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.26% +7.83% +130.00%
75th Percentile £61.91 £63.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.63 £65.81 -
South East median hourly rate £57.50 £62.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -7.26% +37.78% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 683 1,405 1,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 89.40% 81.69% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 767 720
10th Percentile £315 £388 £240
25th Percentile £450 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £592 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.48% +12.71% +5.00%
75th Percentile £624 £675 £616
90th Percentile £675 £740 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 168 97
10th Percentile £20.96 £13.05 £15.92
25th Percentile £44.38 £25.84 £20.47
Median hourly rate £57.50 £57.35 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.26% +4.27% +124.49%
75th Percentile £73.13 £65.00 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.25 £75.00
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.30
% change year-on-year -41.31% -9.18% +138.27%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Hampshire over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 31 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Portsmouth +17 9 - - 14
Basingstoke - 8 £438 - 9
Andover - 3 £513 -
Farnborough +8 2 £475 -25.20% 1
Southampton - 1 £350 - 8
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 5 (19.23%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) npm
Communications & Networking
1 8 (30.77%) Software-Defined Radio
2 7 (26.92%) SNMP
3 3 (11.54%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (73.08%) JIRA
2 11 (42.31%) Jenkins
3 9 (34.62%) Git
4 8 (30.77%) Robot Framework
4 8 (30.77%) SoapUI
5 7 (26.92%) GoogleTest
6 5 (19.23%) Bitbucket
7 4 (15.38%) Eclipse
8 2 (7.69%) Cucumber
8 2 (7.69%) Postman
8 2 (7.69%) Selenium
8 2 (7.69%) WebDriver
General
1 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
2 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (3.85%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Software Test Engineer
1 9 (34.62%) Test Engineer
2 8 (30.77%) Tester
3 6 (23.08%) Senior
4 5 (19.23%) Senior Tester
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Project Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Project Leader
6 2 (7.69%) Analyst
6 2 (7.69%) Embedded Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Project Manager
6 2 (7.69%) QA Tester
6 2 (7.69%) Test Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Coordinator
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Test Coordinator
7 1 (3.85%) Testing Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (30.77%) SOAP
1 8 (30.77%) XML
2 7 (26.92%) CSS
2 7 (26.92%) HTML
3 3 (11.54%) Kafka
3 3 (11.54%) Node.js
4 2 (7.69%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (7.69%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 15 (57.69%) Test Automation
3 9 (34.62%) Scrum
4 8 (30.77%) Test Scripting
4 8 (30.77%) V-Model
4 8 (30.77%) Waterfall
5 7 (26.92%) Integration Testing
5 7 (26.92%) SysML
5 7 (26.92%) UML
5 7 (26.92%) Validation
5 7 (26.92%) Verification and Validation
6 6 (23.08%) Mentoring
6 6 (23.08%) Test Strategy
7 5 (19.23%) Manual Testing
7 5 (19.23%) Programme Delivery
7 5 (19.23%) Prototyping
7 5 (19.23%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (19.23%) Software Engineering
8 4 (15.38%) Exploratory Testing
9 3 (11.54%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) C++
2 5 (19.23%) JavaScript
3 3 (11.54%) Python
4 2 (7.69%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (73.08%) Security Cleared
2 10 (38.46%) DV Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 2 (7.69%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.85%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (11.54%) Def Stans
2 2 (7.69%) QA
3 1 (3.85%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (19.23%) Firmware
2 3 (11.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Atlassian
1 5 (19.23%) Google
2 3 (11.54%) VMware