Software Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Software Testing
England > Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 8 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 104 126 142
Rank change year-on-year +22 +16 -50
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 34 30 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.18% 0.93% 1.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.06% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 23 54
10th Percentile £250 £263 £285
25th Percentile £372 £286 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £375 £450
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -16.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £536 £429 £520
90th Percentile £544 £520 £558
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - -
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year +19.05% +4.13% +9.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,342 2,820 4,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 81.18% 87.52% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,567 1,978 3,272
10th Percentile £231 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 101 131
10th Percentile £11.10 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +27.03% +24.96%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the Midlands

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 June 2024. 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
West Midlands +16 26 £475 +18.75% 31
East Midlands +8 8 £500 +33.33% 40
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (2.94%) Appian
1 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) Simulink
2 5 (14.71%) Stateflow
2 5 (14.71%) TargetLink
3 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (26.47%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (2.94%) GitHub
3 1 (2.94%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.94%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.82%) Relational Database
3 2 (5.88%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 5 (14.71%) Bitbucket
1 5 (14.71%) Git
1 5 (14.71%) Subversion
2 4 (11.76%) Ant
3 3 (8.82%) JMeter
3 3 (8.82%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 3 (8.82%) Visual Studio
4 2 (5.88%) Selenium
4 2 (5.88%) TestRail
5 1 (2.94%) Artifactory
5 1 (2.94%) JIRA
5 1 (2.94%) Octopus Deploy
5 1 (2.94%) TeamCity
General
1 9 (26.47%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Automotive
4 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.94%) Banking
6 1 (2.94%) Games
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Analyst
2 7 (20.59%) Developer
2 7 (20.59%) SQL Developer
3 6 (17.65%) Test Analyst
4 5 (14.71%) Control Systems Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Principal Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Principal Systems Engineer
4 5 (14.71%) Systems Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Performance Test Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) QA Analyst
5 3 (8.82%) Test Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Test Manager
6 2 (5.88%) QA Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) Software Analyst
6 2 (5.88%) Software Test Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support
7 1 (2.94%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.94%) DevOps Engineer
7 1 (2.94%) FPGA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.94%) .NET
1 1 (2.94%) React
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Algorithms
2 5 (14.71%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.71%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (2.94%) FPGA
3 1 (2.94%) NHS
3 1 (2.94%) PDA
3 1 (2.94%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Unix
2 2 (5.88%) Windows
3 1 (2.94%) Android
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (55.88%) Agile
2 12 (35.29%) DevOps
3 11 (32.35%) Scrum
4 10 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 8 (23.53%) Integration Testing
5 8 (23.53%) System Testing
6 7 (20.59%) Functional Testing
6 7 (20.59%) Test Scripting
7 6 (17.65%) Test Strategy
8 5 (14.71%) Black-Box Testing
8 5 (14.71%) Line Management
8 5 (14.71%) Manual Testing
8 5 (14.71%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) Project Management
8 5 (14.71%) QMS
8 5 (14.71%) Quality Management
8 5 (14.71%) Software Audit
8 5 (14.71%) Software Engineering
8 5 (14.71%) UML
8 5 (14.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (38.24%) SQL
2 8 (23.53%) PL/SQL
3 7 (20.59%) Bash
3 7 (20.59%) Bourne shell
3 7 (20.59%) Korn
4 6 (17.65%) MATLAB
5 5 (14.71%) C
6 1 (2.94%) C#
6 1 (2.94%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.94%) VB
Qualifications
1 10 (29.41%) ISTQB
2 8 (23.53%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (20.59%) ISEB
3 7 (20.59%) Security Cleared
4 6 (17.65%) Degree
5 5 (14.71%) Master's Degree
6 4 (11.76%) SC Cleared
7 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (17.65%) QA
2 5 (14.71%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (14.71%) ISO 26262
2 5 (14.71%) MISRA
2 5 (14.71%) MISRA C
3 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.82%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
2 1 (2.94%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) Ansible
1 1 (2.94%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.94%) Puppet
1 1 (2.94%) Rancher
1 1 (2.94%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 6 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Guidewire
3 1 (2.94%) SAP
3 1 (2.94%) Talend
3 1 (2.94%) VMware
3 1 (2.94%) Xilinx