Software Testing Contracts in Wiltshire

Software Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 90 54
Rank change year-on-year +2 -36 +2
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 2 4 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.21% 0.36% 2.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% 0.39% 3.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 20
10th Percentile - £441 -
25th Percentile £516 £483 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £519 £457
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +13.64% -10.93%
75th Percentile £549 £547 £500
90th Percentile - £564 £504
South West median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

Software Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 785 1,017 830
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.54% 92.04% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 569 854 592
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £464 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £518
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +11.00% +3.60%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £613
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £540 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 14 24
10th Percentile £12.00 £60.45 £15.26
25th Percentile - £62.75 £29.75
Median hourly rate £14.54 £68.15 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -78.66% +15.02% +18.50%
75th Percentile £30.25 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £47.75 £85.25 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £47.92 £61.50 £48.48
% change year-on-year -22.09% +26.86% +7.73%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Wiltshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Wiltshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Wiltshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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
Corsham -13 1 £533 +3.90% 1
Swindon - 1 - - 2
Software Testing
South West

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Spark
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Synapse Analytics
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Hive
1 1 (50.00%) Big Data
1 1 (50.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Delta Lake
1 1 (50.00%) Hadoop
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) LabVIEW
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache NiFi
1 1 (50.00%) PySpark
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Cleansing
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Ingestion
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) ETL
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudera
1 1 (50.00%) Databricks