Software Testing Contracts in Surrey

Software Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 37 44 43
Rank change year-on-year +7 -1 +21
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 2 12 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.67% 2.04% 3.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 2.48% 4.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 7
10th Percentile - £395 £193
25th Percentile - £400 £216
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £450 £250
Median % change year-on-year - +80.00% -51.22%
75th Percentile - £475 £394
90th Percentile - £477 £405
South East median daily rate £550 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +29.41% - -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 17
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £19.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate - £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year - -54.44% -
75th Percentile - £27.75 £47.50
90th Percentile - £31.35 -
South East median hourly rate £57.75 £60.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -4.55% +34.44% +23.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 484 581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 89.60% 82.45% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 352 436
10th Percentile £188 £213 £198
25th Percentile £280 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £514
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -2.68% +2.75%
75th Percentile £544 £619 £625
90th Percentile £659 £700 £725
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 55 33
10th Percentile £20.63 £11.71 £32.10
25th Percentile £24.18 £13.25 £42.50
Median hourly rate £26.33 £20.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.41% -54.44% +87.50%
75th Percentile £40.98 £53.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £62.50 £76.86 £63.51
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Surrey

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Surrey

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Surrey

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey 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
Staines -1 1 - -
Reigate - 1 - - 1
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Mocha
1 1 (50.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Insurtech
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA