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 19 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 35 40
Rank change year-on-year +2 +5 +11
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 4 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South London 2.23% 1.98% 2.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.56% 2.09% 2.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - £355
25th Percentile £475 £458 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -2.11% +18.75%
75th Percentile £525 £473 £494
90th Percentile - - £528
London median daily rate £425 £488 £550
% change year-on-year -12.91% -11.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £49.47
25th Percentile - £40.82 £50.78
Median hourly rate - £43.84 £52.97
Median % change year-on-year - -17.24% +5.97%
75th Percentile - £46.86 £60.45
90th Percentile - - £63.24
London median hourly rate £26.04 £52.64 £60.00
% change year-on-year -50.53% -12.28% +263.64%

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 156 191 319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 87.15% 94.55% 87.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 136 243
10th Percentile £220 £361 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £635 £554 £606
90th Percentile £709 £644 £723
London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 17
10th Percentile - £17.23 £16.90
25th Percentile - £17.25 £30.00
Median hourly rate £15.84 £31.67 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -49.98% -37.19% +14.31%
75th Percentile £16.38 £74.22 £55.00
90th Percentile £17.98 £83.75 £59.51
London median hourly rate £30.81 £33.29 £41.50
% change year-on-year -7.45% -19.80% +16.90%

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
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 19 July 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
Kingston Upon Thames +4 3 £500 - 1
Merton +4 3 £500 - 1
Bromley - 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:

Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) OpenShift
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
1 3 (75.00%) Software Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineering
1 3 (75.00%) Technical Leadership
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Management
1 3 (75.00%) Validation
1 3 (75.00%) Verification and Validation
1 3 (75.00%) Workload Management
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) EMC Certification
1 3 (75.00%) HNC
1 3 (75.00%) HND
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Def Stans
1 3 (75.00%) IEC 61508
1 3 (75.00%) ISO/IEC 15288
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Functional Safety
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk