Software Testing Contracts in South London

Software Testing
London > South London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South London 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 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 38 41 44
Rank change year-on-year +3 +3 -14
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 1.68% 2.07% 3.03%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.78% 2.32% 3.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 7
10th Percentile - £310 £320
25th Percentile £458 £325 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% +3.83% +10.91%
75th Percentile £473 £483 £467
90th Percentile - £489 £529
London median daily rate £470 £550 £515
% change year-on-year -14.55% +6.80% +8.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £49.03 -
25th Percentile £40.82 £49.69 -
Median hourly rate £43.84 £52.58 £48.58
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £46.86 £55.08 -
90th Percentile - £55.50 -
London median hourly rate £43.84 £52.58 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.62% +110.32% +2.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South London

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 South London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 225 345 327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 94.54% 89.15% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 275 247
10th Percentile £259 £300 £340
25th Percentile £425 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £649 £638
90th Percentile £630 £750 £705
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £17.00 £18.75 £39.34
25th Percentile £20.25 £20.00 £40.31
Median hourly rate £23.50 £50.42 £45.65
Median % change year-on-year -53.39% +10.46% -1.84%
75th Percentile £77.19 - £48.58
90th Percentile £83.75 £55.22 £49.72
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +13.85%

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
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 12 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
Croydon +3 2 - - 4
Kingston Upon Thames -1 1 - - 3
Merton -1 1 - - 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon S3
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Lambda
1 2 (50.00%) Serverless
1 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (25.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Collaborative Working
1 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) Refactoring
1 2 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Kanban
2 1 (25.00%) Scrum
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Bash
1 2 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) Ada
2 1 (25.00%) C#
2 1 (25.00%) C++
2 1 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Docker
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) VMware