Software Testing Contracts in London

Software Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 218 189 201
Rank change year-on-year -29 +12 +12
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 136 217 350
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.08% 1.22% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.18% 1.37% 1.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 162 262
10th Percentile £313 £325 £326
25th Percentile £363 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £457 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.27% -16.15% +6.34%
75th Percentile £638 £629 £673
90th Percentile £733 £702 £738
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 5
10th Percentile £31.46 £37.45 -
25th Percentile £39.59 £38.01 £45.00
Median hourly rate £53.27 £41.00 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year +29.93% -22.60% +9.04%
75th Percentile £67.07 £44.95 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.28 £46.10 £62.70
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +7.14%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London -7 22 £431 -10.39% 16
South London +5 4 £553 +18.82% 2
East London +9 2 £380 -12.64% 6
West London +8 2 £400 -23.22% 23
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 4 (2.94%) CMS
1 4 (2.94%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.21%) Headless CMS
3 2 (1.47%) WordPress
4 1 (0.74%) Apache
4 1 (0.74%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.74%) Jupyter
4 1 (0.74%) MQSeries
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.74%) Umbraco
4 1 (0.74%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.74%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (1.47%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.68%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.21%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.47%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.74%) Endur
4 1 (0.74%) iTrent
4 1 (0.74%) Murex MxG2000
4 1 (0.74%) SAP CRM
Cloud Services
1 36 (26.47%) Azure
2 30 (22.06%) AWS
3 19 (13.97%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.94%) Power Platform
4 4 (2.94%) Serverless
5 3 (2.21%) GCP
5 3 (2.21%) GitHub
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.47%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.47%) Azure Functions
6 2 (1.47%) Boomi
6 2 (1.47%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.47%) Datadog
6 2 (1.47%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.47%) SaaS
7 1 (0.74%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (0.74%) AWS CodeBuild
7 1 (0.74%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 1 (0.74%) 4G
1 1 (0.74%) 5G
1 1 (0.74%) 5G NR
1 1 (0.74%) LAN
1 1 (0.74%) LTE
1 1 (0.74%) MPLS
1 1 (0.74%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (0.74%) SDH
1 1 (0.74%) SSH
1 1 (0.74%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (8.82%) Oracle Database
1 12 (8.82%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (2.94%) MS Access
3 4 (2.94%) Oracle Database 11g
3 4 (2.94%) Redis
4 3 (2.21%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 2 (1.47%) Big Data
5 2 (1.47%) MongoDB
5 2 (1.47%) Power BI
6 1 (0.74%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.74%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.74%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.74%) MySQL
6 1 (0.74%) QlikView
6 1 (0.74%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.74%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (18.38%) Selenium
2 19 (13.97%) Git
3 16 (11.76%) JIRA
4 15 (11.03%) Jenkins
4 15 (11.03%) JMeter
5 9 (6.62%) Postman
6 8 (5.88%) Appium
6 8 (5.88%) Cucumber
6 8 (5.88%) QARun
6 8 (5.88%) WinRunner
7 7 (5.15%) Cypress.io
7 7 (5.15%) Gatling
7 7 (5.15%) GitLab
7 7 (5.15%) SpecFlow
8 6 (4.41%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.68%) Bitbucket
9 5 (3.68%) JUnit
9 5 (3.68%) NeoLoad
10 4 (2.94%) CircleCI
10 4 (2.94%) SoapUI
General
1 62 (45.59%) Social Skills
2 41 (30.15%) Finance
3 25 (18.38%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (13.24%) Banking
5 5 (3.68%) Public Sector
6 4 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.94%) Marketing
6 4 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (2.94%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (2.21%) Billing
7 3 (2.21%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Private Banking
7 3 (2.21%) Retail
7 3 (2.21%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.47%) Back Office
8 2 (1.47%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.47%) Electronics
8 2 (1.47%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (18.38%) Developer
2 20 (14.71%) Analyst
3 16 (11.76%) Lead
3 16 (11.76%) Test Analyst
3 16 (11.76%) Tester
4 13 (9.56%) Senior
4 13 (9.56%) Software Engineer
5 12 (8.82%) Test Leader
6 11 (8.09%) Software Developer
7 10 (7.35%) Developer in Test
7 10 (7.35%) Test Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) Automation Tester
8 8 (5.88%) Consultant
8 8 (5.88%) QA Engineer
8 8 (5.88%) UAT Analyst
8 8 (5.88%) UAT Test Analyst
9 5 (3.68%) Automation Test Analyst
9 5 (3.68%) Performance Test Consultant
9 5 (3.68%) Test Automation Engineer
9 5 (3.68%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (11.03%) .NET
2 12 (8.82%) Playwright
3 10 (7.35%) Web Services
4 9 (6.62%) React
5 8 (5.88%) HTML
6 7 (5.15%) REST
7 6 (4.41%) CSS
8 5 (3.68%) .NET Framework
8 5 (3.68%) ADO
8 5 (3.68%) Bootstrap
8 5 (3.68%) GraphQL
8 5 (3.68%) Jest
8 5 (3.68%) Middleware
9 4 (2.94%) AngularJS
9 4 (2.94%) JSON
9 4 (2.94%) Kafka
9 4 (2.94%) Node.js
9 4 (2.94%) Play Framework
9 4 (2.94%) RESTful
9 4 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (5.88%) Product Ownership
2 7 (5.15%) Public Cloud
3 4 (2.94%) FMCG
3 4 (2.94%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.21%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (2.21%) Data Structures
4 3 (2.21%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.21%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.21%) Online Banking
4 3 (2.21%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.47%) Housing Association
5 2 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.47%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.74%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.74%) Derivative
6 1 (0.74%) Equities
6 1 (0.74%) Fixed Income
6 1 (0.74%) SCADA
6 1 (0.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 17 (12.50%) Windows
2 10 (7.35%) Linux
3 7 (5.15%) Android
3 7 (5.15%) Unix
4 5 (3.68%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.74%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (55.15%) Test Automation
2 61 (44.85%) Agile
3 46 (33.82%) DevOps
3 46 (33.82%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (28.68%) CI/CD
5 25 (18.38%) Test Strategy
6 24 (17.65%) Software Engineering
6 24 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (14.71%) Performance Testing
8 18 (13.24%) Integration Testing
8 18 (13.24%) Microservices
8 18 (13.24%) SDLC
8 18 (13.24%) Test Scripting
8 18 (13.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 17 (12.50%) Logistics
9 17 (12.50%) Manual Testing
9 17 (12.50%) SDET
10 14 (10.29%) Scrum
10 14 (10.29%) Waterfall
11 13 (9.56%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 39 (28.68%) Java
2 32 (23.53%) Python
3 31 (22.79%) SQL
4 28 (20.59%) JavaScript
5 26 (19.12%) C#
6 13 (9.56%) TypeScript
7 6 (4.41%) C++
8 5 (3.68%) PHP
8 5 (3.68%) Ruby
8 5 (3.68%) Shell Script
8 5 (3.68%) VB
9 4 (2.94%) Groovy
9 4 (2.94%) PL/SQL
9 4 (2.94%) Scala
10 1 (0.74%) ABAP
10 1 (0.74%) Bash
10 1 (0.74%) COBOL
10 1 (0.74%) Go
10 1 (0.74%) Perl
10 1 (0.74%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 38 (27.94%) SC Cleared
1 38 (27.94%) Security Cleared
2 19 (13.97%) Degree
3 12 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.68%) ISTQB
5 3 (2.21%) Azure Certification
5 3 (2.21%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certification
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (0.74%) HNC
6 1 (0.74%) HND
6 1 (0.74%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.74%) PMP
6 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (36.76%) QA
2 4 (2.94%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.21%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.74%) SLA
4 1 (0.74%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (5.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.74%) Firmware
2 1 (0.74%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 9 (6.62%) Kubernetes
1 9 (6.62%) Terraform
2 8 (5.88%) Ansible
3 4 (2.94%) HP ALM
3 4 (2.94%) Perfmon
4 2 (1.47%) Progress Chef
5 1 (0.74%) Argo
5 1 (0.74%) Functional Safety
5 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.74%) Packer
5 1 (0.74%) Puppet
5 1 (0.74%) QRadar
5 1 (0.74%) Rancher
5 1 (0.74%) SCCM
5 1 (0.74%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 21 (15.44%) Oracle
2 16 (11.76%) Microsoft
3 8 (5.88%) SAP
4 7 (5.15%) Dynatrace
5 5 (3.68%) New Relic
6 4 (2.94%) Bloomberg
6 4 (2.94%) Citrix
6 4 (2.94%) HP
6 4 (2.94%) Reuters
6 4 (2.94%) Splunk
7 3 (2.21%) Salesforce
8 2 (1.47%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (1.47%) IBM
8 2 (1.47%) NEC
8 2 (1.47%) Nokia
8 2 (1.47%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.47%) Workday
9 1 (0.74%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.74%) Cisco
9 1 (0.74%) Databricks