Software Testing Contracts in Northern Ireland

Software Testing
UK > Northern Ireland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 30 22
Rank change year-on-year +10 -8 +1
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.76% 0.50% 5.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 0.66% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £485
Median % change year-on-year - - +12.53%
75th Percentile £575 - £550
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £457 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.60% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £19.00
75th Percentile - - £21.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 109 151 174
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 75.17% 75.50% 82.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 79 90
10th Percentile £211 £159 £145
25th Percentile £350 £264 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £413 £441
Median % change year-on-year +24.24% -6.52% +6.97%
75th Percentile £600 £508 £500
90th Percentile £670 £626 £550
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 14 12
10th Percentile - £13.40 £10.22
25th Percentile £12.25 £13.91 £10.27
Median hourly rate £13.94 £15.25 £17.37
Median % change year-on-year -8.59% -12.20% +28.67%
75th Percentile £23.54 £16.78 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.88 £18.12 -
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Northern Ireland

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Northern Ireland

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Northern Ireland

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 5 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
County Antrim +9 4 £550 - 4
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Maven
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) NUnit
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) QA Automation Tester
1 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 2 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
1 2 (50.00%) REST
1 2 (50.00%) Software Packaging
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) SDET
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) Data Quality
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft