Software Testing Contracts in the South West

Software Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 131 99
Rank change year-on-year +3 -32 -42
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 24 43 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.76% 1.18% 2.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.32% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 25 46
10th Percentile £326 £315 £331
25th Percentile £456 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £591 £630 £541
90th Percentile £600 - £555
England median daily rate £450 £510 £488
% change year-on-year -11.76% +4.62% +4.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 12
10th Percentile £66.00 £51.43 £54.38
25th Percentile £67.50 £57.94 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £73.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.11% +21.67% +31.87%
75th Percentile £72.50 £78.00 -
90th Percentile £74.00 £79.80 -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +8.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,623 3,261 3,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.82% 89.56% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,685 2,401 2,333
10th Percentile £220 £313 £300
25th Percentile £405 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +7.53%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £589
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 341 196
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £17.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.95% +26.16% +8.33%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.40 £70.54
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South West

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the South West

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the South West

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the South West

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Bristol +10 7 £400 -36.51% 20
Devon - 6 £575 - 4
Gloucestershire 0 5 £550 +62.96% 10
Dorset +9 2 £600 - 5
Somerset -2 2 - - 5
Wiltshire -4 2 £533 +3.90% 8
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 (4.17%) Apache
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Spark
1 1 (4.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 6 (25.00%) Azure
2 5 (20.83%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (8.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (4.17%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.17%) Power Automate
5 1 (4.17%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) 4G
1 2 (8.33%) 5G
1 2 (8.33%) IPv4
1 2 (8.33%) Network Security
1 2 (8.33%) OSPF
1 2 (8.33%) Tactical Data Link
1 2 (8.33%) VLAN
1 2 (8.33%) VoIP
1 2 (8.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) Hadoop
2 1 (4.17%) Apache Hive
2 1 (4.17%) Big Data
2 1 (4.17%) Data Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Delta Lake
2 1 (4.17%) Metadata
2 1 (4.17%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.17%) MySQL
2 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
2 1 (4.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) JIRA
1 3 (12.50%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (8.33%) Git
2 2 (8.33%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (8.33%) Selenium
3 1 (4.17%) GitLab
3 1 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.17%) LabVIEW
3 1 (4.17%) Rational Team Concert
3 1 (4.17%) TestRail
3 1 (4.17%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (29.17%) Finance
2 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Military
3 2 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.17%) Law
Job Titles
1 5 (20.83%) Test Manager
2 4 (16.67%) Developer
2 4 (16.67%) Integration Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 3 (12.50%) Test and Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Software Integration Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) Test Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Tester
5 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps
5 1 (4.17%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.33%) Apache NiFi
2 1 (4.17%) CSS
2 1 (4.17%) JSON
2 1 (4.17%) Node.js
2 1 (4.17%) PySpark
2 1 (4.17%) pytest
2 1 (4.17%) REST
2 1 (4.17%) XML
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) Windows
2 6 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Agile
2 6 (25.00%) DevOps
3 5 (20.83%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (20.83%) Test Automation
3 5 (20.83%) Test Strategy
3 5 (20.83%) Validation
4 4 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Requirements Management
4 4 (16.67%) Scrum
4 4 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 4 (16.67%) UML
5 3 (12.50%) Project Management
5 3 (12.50%) Software Engineering
5 3 (12.50%) Unit Testing
6 2 (8.33%) Configuration Management
6 2 (8.33%) OO
6 2 (8.33%) OOD
6 2 (8.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.67%) Python
1 4 (16.67%) SQL
2 3 (12.50%) C
3 2 (8.33%) Ada
3 2 (8.33%) Ada 95
3 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (8.33%) Java
3 2 (8.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (8.33%) MATLAB
3 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.17%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 14 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) SC Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) Degree
3 3 (12.50%) DV Cleared
3 3 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) GIAC
4 1 (4.17%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Def Stans
System Software
1 2 (8.33%) Docker
2 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (4.17%) Kibana
2 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (4.17%) Cloudera
2 1 (4.17%) Cognos
2 1 (4.17%) Databricks
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Red Hat
2 1 (4.17%) VMware
2 1 (4.17%) Wind River