Software Testing Contract Job Trends in Northamptonshire

Software Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Software Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 24 -
Rank change year-on-year -19 - -
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs in Northamptonshire 0.38% 3.13% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 3.38% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £311 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 - -
75th Percentile £314 - -
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median daily rate £313 - £419
% change year-on-year - - -16.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £24.20 -
East Midlands median hourly rate - £24.20 £65.00
% change year-on-year - -62.77% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 245 148 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 92.11% 92.50% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 116 110
10th Percentile £314 £307 £258
25th Percentile £358 £356 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £408 £485
Median % change year-on-year -0.61% -15.98% +10.23%
75th Percentile £475 £506 £534
90th Percentile £550 £616 £588
East Midlands median daily rate £420 £436 £475
% change year-on-year -3.56% -8.32% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 14
10th Percentile - - £13.16
25th Percentile - £23.10 £18.01
Median hourly rate - £24.20 £51.00
Median % change year-on-year - -52.55% +177.55%
75th Percentile - £25.30 £51.50
90th Percentile - - -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £21.52
% change year-on-year -14.40% +2.46% +27.84%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

Software Testing job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

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

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

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Northampton - 1 £313 -
Software Testing
East Midlands

Software Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Banking
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Java Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft