Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Software Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 54 60 64
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +38
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 20 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.78% 0.97% 0.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 1.12% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 4 5
10th Percentile - - £483
25th Percentile £403 £363 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £388 £525
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -26.19% +2.44%
75th Percentile £525 £444 £575
90th Percentile £538 £523 -
West Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £408 £525
% change year-on-year +19.63% -22.38% +10.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 634 537 822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 88.18% 86.89% 90.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 339 558
10th Percentile £301 £300 £313
25th Percentile £400 £403 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -8.57% -
75th Percentile £573 £573 £613
90th Percentile £648 £688 £700
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 18 6
10th Percentile - £15.59 £18.50
25th Percentile - £17.43 £18.74
Median hourly rate £14.25 £35.00 £21.01
Median % change year-on-year -59.29% +66.61% -2.29%
75th Percentile £25.75 £41.50 £21.80
90th Percentile £27.40 £98.25 £41.98
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £32.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -31.88% +71.05% -11.63%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Leeds over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Leeds

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 7 (35.00%) AWS
2 3 (15.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (20.00%) MongoDB
2 2 (10.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 4 (20.00%) Cypress.io
2 4 (20.00%) GitLab
2 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (15.00%) Git
4 1 (5.00%) JIRA
4 1 (5.00%) TestRail
4 1 (5.00%) Vite
4 1 (5.00%) webpack
4 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 9 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.00%) Local Government
2 3 (15.00%) Military
3 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior
2 6 (30.00%) Test Engineer
3 5 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (15.00%) Consultant
5 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Lead
6 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Implementation Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
7 1 (5.00%) IT Technician
7 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) QA Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) QA Test Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Senior QA Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Systems Manager
7 1 (5.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (30.00%) Node.js
2 5 (25.00%) Playwright
3 3 (15.00%) React
3 3 (15.00%) RESTful
4 1 (5.00%) AngularJS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS
4 1 (5.00%) CSS3
4 1 (5.00%) HTML
4 1 (5.00%) HTML5
4 1 (5.00%) Jest
4 1 (5.00%) Vitest
4 1 (5.00%) Vue
4 1 (5.00%) Vuex
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
2 1 (5.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
1 9 (45.00%) Scrum
2 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (35.00%) Test Scripting
3 7 (35.00%) Test Strategy
4 6 (30.00%) CI/CD
4 6 (30.00%) Microservices
4 6 (30.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (25.00%) BDD
5 5 (25.00%) Manual Testing
6 4 (20.00%) Agile Coaching
6 4 (20.00%) Coaching
6 4 (20.00%) Kanban
6 4 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (20.00%) Project Governance
6 4 (20.00%) Risk Management
6 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (20.00%) Sprint Backlog
6 4 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (30.00%) TypeScript
2 5 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (15.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (40.00%) QA
2 6 (30.00%) Accessibility
3 3 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (5.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) Grafana
2 2 (10.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Splunk
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft