Software Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Software Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 25 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 70 99
Rank change year-on-year -22 +29 +18
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 7 36 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.58% 2.08% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 2.47% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 33 11
10th Percentile £358 £403 £413
25th Percentile £432 £407 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.50% -5.26% -
75th Percentile - £575 £538
90th Percentile £565 £600 £588
England median daily rate £438 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -2.78% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £19.55
25th Percentile - - £21.50
Median hourly rate - - £26.50
75th Percentile - - £31.00
90th Percentile - - £32.65
England median hourly rate £56.25 £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -10.00% +19.05% -0.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,133 1,458 1,955
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 93.56% 84.18% 90.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 688 874 1,276
10th Percentile £267 £275 £275
25th Percentile £380 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 73 61
10th Percentile £16.13 £11.39 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.16 £12.15 -
Median hourly rate £21.69 £13.23 £10.63
Median % change year-on-year +63.95% +24.46% -42.54%
75th Percentile £24.80 £21.50 £20.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £53.75 £44.50
England median hourly rate £25.50 £37.50 £35.03
% change year-on-year -32.00% +7.05% +36.41%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 June 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
South Yorkshire -9 4 £520 +27.70% 9
West Yorkshire -17 2 £325 -40.91% 35
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 5 (71.43%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (57.14%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
Development Applications
1 6 (85.71%) JIRA
2 5 (71.43%) Selenium
3 4 (57.14%) Cucumber
3 4 (57.14%) Git
3 4 (57.14%) Gradle
3 4 (57.14%) HP UFT
3 4 (57.14%) IntelliJ
3 4 (57.14%) Jenkins
3 4 (57.14%) JUnit
3 4 (57.14%) Maven
4 1 (14.29%) TestRail
4 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Unix Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) Nightwatchjs
1 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) EMC VMAX
1 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Storage
1 1 (14.29%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (14.29%) Unix
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Analytics
2 5 (71.43%) Continuous Delivery
2 5 (71.43%) Exploratory Testing
3 4 (57.14%) BDD
3 4 (57.14%) Case Management
3 4 (57.14%) Code Coverage
3 4 (57.14%) Code Quality
3 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
3 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (57.14%) Data Privacy
3 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 4 (57.14%) Document Management
3 4 (57.14%) Due Diligence
3 4 (57.14%) Non-Functional Testing
3 4 (57.14%) QA Automation
3 4 (57.14%) TDD
3 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 4 (57.14%) Workflow
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas Cluster Server
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) AppDynamics
1 1 (14.29%) EMC
1 1 (14.29%) NetApp
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle
1 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Splunk
1 1 (14.29%) Veritas
1 1 (14.29%) VMware