Parasoft Contract Job Trends

Parasoft
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 669 560 -
Rank change year-on-year -109 - -
Contract jobs citing Parasoft 2 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.004% 0.006% -
As % of the Vendors category 0.009% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £376 - -
25th Percentile £397 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £447 -
Median % change year-on-year -2.13% - -
75th Percentile £472 - -
90th Percentile £489 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £447 -
% change year-on-year -16.11% - -

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,867 15,556 17,055
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 41.91% 47.12% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,033 9,517 10,292
10th Percentile £313 £276 £288
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £613 £613 £626
90th Percentile £700 £700 £731
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.60% -4.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,255 792 694
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.42 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £30.80
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -18.33% -27.54%
75th Percentile £62.25 £43.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £67.95 £70.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.19 £21.24 £30.00
% change year-on-year +23.31% -29.20% -25.00%

Parasoft
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Parasoft job vacancy trend in the UK

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Parasoft
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Parasoft over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Parasoft in the UK

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

Parasoft
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

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 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
England -128 2 £438 -2.13% 1
UK excluding London -107 1 £375 -16.11% 1
Work from Home - 1 £500 -
London - 1 £500 -
South East - 1 £375 -

Parasoft
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
1 1 (50.00%) HTTPS
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) eggPlant
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (50.00%) NeoLoad
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) WireMock
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) People Management
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) Groovy
2 1 (50.00%) Python
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) SOASTA