Software Testing Contracts in Telford

Software Testing
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Telford 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 21 22 27
Rank change year-on-year +1 +5 +47
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 8 6 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Telford 7.41% 5.13% 22.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.62% 8.22% 23.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 30
10th Percentile £349 - £419
25th Percentile £430 £500 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £536 £538
Median % change year-on-year -16.04% -0.37% +23.68%
75th Percentile £493 - £540
90th Percentile £498 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £450 £536 £538
% change year-on-year -16.04% -0.37% +21.58%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 73 148
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 97.22% 62.39% 95.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 45 119
10th Percentile £315 £341 £412
25th Percentile £448 £358 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £400 £540
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -25.93% +8.00%
75th Percentile £537 £500 £545
90th Percentile £541 £520 £595
Shropshire median daily rate £484 £378 £538
% change year-on-year +28.04% -29.74% +6.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - £10.42 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -81.05% -
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - £11.85 -
Shropshire median hourly rate £12.18 £10.42 £55.00
% change year-on-year +16.89% -81.05% +214.29%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Telford

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Telford

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Telford

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Telford over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Telford

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Telford 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 2 (25.00%) SAS
2 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) GitHub
2 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle Database
1 2 (25.00%) RDBMS
1 2 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (12.50%) Power BI
2 1 (12.50%) SAS Data Integration Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (12.50%) Cucumber
2 1 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (12.50%) JBehave
2 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 1 (12.50%) Selenium
2 1 (12.50%) SoapUI
2 1 (12.50%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Analyst
1 5 (62.50%) Test Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Data Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Data Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
4 1 (12.50%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
1 1 (12.50%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Migration
2 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ETL
4 1 (12.50%) API Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Data Integration
4 1 (12.50%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (12.50%) Risk Management
4 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (12.50%) SDLC
4 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Wireframes
4 1 (12.50%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Talend
2 2 (25.00%) Denodo
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Atlassian
3 1 (12.50%) QAD