Software Testing Contracts in Northampton

Software Testing
Northamptonshire > Northampton

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northampton 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 11 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 31 -
Rank change year-on-year -8 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northampton 1.35% 0.49% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.42% 0.54% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £158 - -
25th Percentile £226 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Northamptonshire median daily rate £340 £500 -
% change year-on-year -32.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northampton

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 Northampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 211 185 102
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northampton 95.05% 91.13% 85.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 143 80
10th Percentile £260 £355 £190
25th Percentile £327 £374 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +12.50% -13.98%
75th Percentile £447 £575 £500
90th Percentile £500 £620 £609
Northamptonshire median daily rate £390 £445 £400
% change year-on-year -12.36% +11.25% -13.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 1
10th Percentile £16.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £14.52
Median % change year-on-year +52.79% -3.58% +32.00%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - £35.75 -
Northamptonshire median hourly rate £21.39 £14.00 £51.00
% change year-on-year +52.79% -72.55% +64.52%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northampton

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Northampton

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Northampton

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Northampton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Northampton over the 6 months to 11 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Northampton

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northampton

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Northampton

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northampton 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 2 (66.67%) CICS
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) DB2
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Database
1 2 (66.67%) Relational Database
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Eclipse
2 2 (66.67%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) IntelliJ
2 2 (66.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (66.67%) Maven
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Tester
2 2 (66.67%) Automation Tester
3 1 (33.33%) Mainframe Tester
3 1 (33.33%) Product Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Mainframe
1 2 (66.67%) VSAM
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 3 (100.00%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) COBOL
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JCL
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle