Exploratory Testing Contract Job Trends in Swindon

Exploratory Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Swindon requiring Exploratory Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Swindon 0.68% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Wiltshire median daily rate - - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Swindon

Exploratory 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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 119 92 90
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 81.51% 92.00% 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 59 48
10th Percentile £305 £308 £143
25th Percentile £350 £388 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £458
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +9.29% -12.86%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £550
90th Percentile £725 £650 £620
Wiltshire median daily rate £538 £563 £539
% change year-on-year -4.44% +4.36% -6.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 9
10th Percentile £21.20 - -
25th Percentile £30.36 - £12.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 - £16.50
75th Percentile £49.13 - £30.25
90th Percentile £49.75 - -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £23.83 £22.01 £15.52
% change year-on-year +8.25% +41.82% -77.23%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Exploratory Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon.

Exploratory Testing job vacancy trend in Swindon

Exploratory Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Exploratory Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Swindon citing Exploratory Testing

Exploratory Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Swindon by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Payment Gateway
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) API Testing
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Apex Code
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Conga
1 1 (100.00%) GoCardless
1 1 (100.00%) Salesforce