Parasoft Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Parasoft
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring knowledge or experience of Parasoft products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Parasoft over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within the Parasoft Corporation.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 479 372 -
Rank change year-on-year -107 - -
Contract jobs citing Parasoft 1 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.013% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.009% 0.027% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £363 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £447 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.11% - -
75th Percentile £388 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £438 £447 -
% change year-on-year -2.13% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Parasoft falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 11,354 7,325 7,856
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 40.36% 47.33% 43.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,812 4,518 4,601
10th Percentile £276 £220 £220
25th Percentile £405 £363 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £478 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,065 583 595
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.22 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.38 £16.84 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.19 £21.24 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.31% -29.20% -25.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £39.22 £63.75
90th Percentile £77.30 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%

Parasoft
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Parasoft relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Parasoft job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Parasoft
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Parasoft.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Parasoft

Parasoft
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Parasoft.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Parasoft

Parasoft
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Parasoft within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 September 2026. 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
South East - 1 £375 -
Parasoft
UK

Parasoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (100.00%) NeoLoad
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Containerisation
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Groovy
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Dynatrace