Software Tester Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Tester daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 389 415 488
Rank change year-on-year +26 +73 -66
Contract jobs requiring a Software Tester 8 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.039% 0.070% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.042% 0.074% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 20
10th Percentile £450 £282 £281
25th Percentile £472 £285 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £290 £344
Median % change year-on-year +98.28% -15.64% +16.53%
75th Percentile £641 £380 £396
90th Percentile £663 £408 £444
UK median daily rate £575 £356 £363
% change year-on-year +61.40% -1.72% +9.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile - - £17.63
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £34.11
90th Percentile - - £41.53
UK median hourly rate - - £18.75

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,149 21,482 29,109
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.26% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,598 14,942 20,451
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £393 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.47%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,392 1,083 1,415
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.95 £14.62
Median hourly rate £40.00 £43.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +115.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.40 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +87.50% +7.74%

Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Software Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Tester in the UK excluding London

Software Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Tester in the UK excluding London

Software Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Tester in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Tester in the UK excluding London

Software Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Tester in the UK excluding London

Software Tester
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 Software Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 May 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
Northern Ireland - 4 £613 - 3
North of England +17 2 £450 +55.17% 10
Yorkshire +14 2 £450 - 2
South East +15 1 - - 1
South West - 1 - -
Software Tester
UK

Software Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 30 May 2024, Software Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Software Tester in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Java
3 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
4 4 (50.00%) Azure
4 4 (50.00%) REST
4 4 (50.00%) GitHub
4 4 (50.00%) DevOps
4 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
4 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
5 3 (37.50%) Spring
6 2 (25.00%) Maven
6 2 (25.00%) WCAG
6 2 (25.00%) Web Services
6 2 (25.00%) JMeter
6 2 (25.00%) SDET
6 2 (25.00%) User Stories
6 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 2 (25.00%) Selenium
6 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
7 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
7 1 (12.50%) Scalability Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 1 (12.50%) Digital Media
7 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
7 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
7 1 (12.50%) Defect Management

Software Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (50.00%) Azure
1 4 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JMeter
1 2 (25.00%) Maven
1 2 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (12.50%) Electronics
1 1 (12.50%) German Language
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
1 1 (12.50%) Spanish Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) REST
1 4 (50.00%) Spring Boot
2 3 (37.50%) Spring
3 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 1 (12.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Digital Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (25.00%) SDET
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) User Stories
4 1 (12.50%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Defect Management
4 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Scalability Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) WCAG
2 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft