Software Testing Contracts in the North of England

Software Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 142 151
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -32
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 61 71 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.30% 1.23% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.51% 1.35% 1.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 56 79
10th Percentile £403 £218 £284
25th Percentile £407 £313 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -10.53% +5.56%
75th Percentile £475 £539 £528
90th Percentile £560 £600 £628
England median daily rate £450 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.63% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 5
10th Percentile £40.88 £31.89 £25.40
25th Percentile - £32.86 £36.50
Median hourly rate £45.88 £36.54 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% -14.03% -4.49%
75th Percentile - £41.05 £44.68
90th Percentile £52.85 £42.50 £44.69
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,027 5,253 6,349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.79% 90.66% 88.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,466 3,653 4,642
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 357 209 259
10th Percentile £11.04 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.25 £12.86
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.69
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +56.81% +2.51%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.00 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £51.91
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Testing in the North of England

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 4 May 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
Yorkshire +44 41 £430 -9.47% 32
North West -10 20 £475 +11.76% 41
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (1.64%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.64%) Misys Midas
1 1 (1.64%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.03%) Azure
1 11 (18.03%) GitHub
2 9 (14.75%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (6.56%) Amazon S3
3 4 (6.56%) AWS
3 4 (6.56%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.56%) Serverless
3 4 (6.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (3.28%) Slack
5 1 (1.64%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.64%) SaaS
5 1 (1.64%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.92%) HTTP
1 3 (4.92%) SSL
2 2 (3.28%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (1.64%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.20%) SQL Server
1 5 (8.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 4 (6.56%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Jenkins
2 10 (16.39%) Git
3 9 (14.75%) JIRA
4 6 (9.84%) Selenium
5 5 (8.20%) Postman
5 5 (8.20%) Team Foundation Server
6 4 (6.56%) GitLab
6 4 (6.56%) JUnit
7 3 (4.92%) Bitbucket
7 3 (4.92%) JMeter
7 3 (4.92%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (3.28%) Octopus Deploy
8 2 (3.28%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
9 1 (1.64%) Rational DOORS
9 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
9 1 (1.64%) TestCafe
9 1 (1.64%) TestNG
9 1 (1.64%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 4 (6.56%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (4.92%) Finance
4 1 (1.64%) Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (1.64%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.64%) Military
4 1 (1.64%) Public Sector
4 1 (1.64%) Retail
4 1 (1.64%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (31.15%) Storage Manager
2 10 (16.39%) Developer
3 7 (11.48%) Test Engineer
4 5 (8.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
4 5 (8.20%) SQL BI Developer
4 5 (8.20%) SQL Developer
4 5 (8.20%) Tester
5 4 (6.56%) AWS DevOps
6 3 (4.92%) Developer in Test
6 3 (4.92%) Senior
6 3 (4.92%) Software Developer
7 2 (3.28%) Analyst
7 2 (3.28%) Design Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) IT Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.28%) QA Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Software Test Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.39%) YAML
2 3 (4.92%) Gherkin
2 3 (4.92%) JDBC
2 3 (4.92%) JPA
2 3 (4.92%) JWT
2 3 (4.92%) Spring
2 3 (4.92%) WebSockets
3 2 (3.28%) Web Services
4 1 (1.64%) .NET
4 1 (1.64%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.64%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.64%) ASP.NET Web Forms
4 1 (1.64%) Entity Framework
4 1 (1.64%) Kafka
4 1 (1.64%) pytest
4 1 (1.64%) RESTful
4 1 (1.64%) Sass
4 1 (1.64%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.75%) Data Centre
2 6 (9.84%) Product Ownership
3 4 (6.56%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.28%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.64%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 14 (22.95%) Linux
1 14 (22.95%) zOS
2 2 (3.28%) Android
2 2 (3.28%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (55.74%) Agile
2 20 (32.79%) Storage Management
3 19 (31.15%) Cost Management
3 19 (31.15%) Project Management
3 19 (31.15%) Stakeholder Management
4 18 (29.51%) DevOps
5 13 (21.31%) Problem Management
6 12 (19.67%) Test Automation
7 11 (18.03%) Test Scripting
8 10 (16.39%) Kanban
9 9 (14.75%) Unit Testing
10 8 (13.11%) API Testing
10 8 (13.11%) User Stories
11 7 (11.48%) CI/CD
11 7 (11.48%) Scrum
11 7 (11.48%) User Acceptance Testing
12 6 (9.84%) Acceptance Criteria
13 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure as Code
13 5 (8.20%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (8.20%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 15 (24.59%) Python
2 13 (21.31%) JCL
3 12 (19.67%) Java
4 10 (16.39%) REXX
4 10 (16.39%) SQL
5 5 (8.20%) C#
6 4 (6.56%) Bash
7 2 (3.28%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.64%) Bicep
8 1 (1.64%) C++
8 1 (1.64%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.64%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.64%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (21.31%) SC Cleared
1 13 (21.31%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.28%) Degree
3 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.48%) QA
2 4 (6.56%) Accessibility
3 3 (4.92%) WCAG
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.64%) MISRA
5 1 (1.64%) MISRA C
System Software
1 13 (21.31%) NFS
1 13 (21.31%) Time Sharing Option
2 4 (6.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 20 (32.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 16 (26.23%) Ansible
3 6 (9.84%) Terraform
4 5 (8.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 20 (32.79%) IBM
2 15 (24.59%) Broadcom
2 15 (24.59%) Dell
3 13 (21.31%) Brocade
3 13 (21.31%) CA
4 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
5 4 (6.56%) Oracle
6 1 (1.64%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.64%) Cisco
6 1 (1.64%) Ribbon
6 1 (1.64%) Salesforce