Software Testing Contracts in South London

Software Testing
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 36 47
Rank change year-on-year +5 +11 -10
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.16% 2.48% 2.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.47% 2.65% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £413 - £310
25th Percentile £463 £458 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +18.82% -2.11% +18.38%
75th Percentile £648 £473 £483
90th Percentile £702 - £489
London median daily rate £438 £457 £545
% change year-on-year -4.27% -16.15% +6.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £41.00 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -22.60% +9.04%
London median hourly rate £53.27 £41.00 £52.97
% change year-on-year +29.93% -22.60% +9.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 162 226 346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.57% 93.39% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 152 277
10th Percentile £380 £216 £300
25th Percentile £463 £422 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -7.41% +2.86%
75th Percentile £650 £575 £675
90th Percentile £876 £638 £775
London median daily rate £550 £550 £590
% change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 17 13
10th Percentile - £17.00 £18.75
25th Percentile - £21.25 £20.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £23.50 £23.46
Median % change year-on-year -32.60% +0.17% -50.54%
75th Percentile £20.38 £75.00 £50.42
90th Percentile £73.96 £83.75 £52.46
London median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
% change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in South London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in South London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in South London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in South London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in South London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 South London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Bromley - 2 £725 -
Kingston Upon Thames +7 1 - - 1
Croydon +5 1 £380 - 1
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South London 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 (25.00%) WinCC
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Electronics
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Marketing
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Control Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Developer in Test
2 1 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Principal Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Marketing
3 1 (25.00%) Generative AI
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Java
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Functional Safety
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (25.00%) Siemens
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk