Software Testing Contracts in West Sussex

Software Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 34 30
Rank change year-on-year +10 -4 +19
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 1 5 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 0.69% 2.02% 6.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 2.23% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 18
10th Percentile - £361 £325
25th Percentile - £370 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £290 £400 £374
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +6.95% +19.68%
75th Percentile - £425 £375
90th Percentile - - £379
South East median daily rate £400 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -5.88% +6.25% -11.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 224 272
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 87.59% 90.69% 88.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 163 219
10th Percentile £193 £280 £181
25th Percentile £300 £400 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £519 £531 £588
90th Percentile £620 £588 £698
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £501
% change year-on-year -2.15% +2.10% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 8
10th Percentile £15.53 £13.85 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -21.40%
75th Percentile £30.46 £23.75 £22.40
90th Percentile £76.80 £29.00 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £27.88 £47.50 £52.10
% change year-on-year -41.31% -8.83% +137.57%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in West Sussex.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the West Sussex region over the 6 months to 30 May 2025. 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
Burgess Hill 0 1 £290 -27.50% 2
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (100.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) IntelliJ
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Event-Driven
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) RAD
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Splunk