Software Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Software Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 109 96
Rank change year-on-year +44 -13 -20
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 41 18 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 2.46% 0.78% 1.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.84% 0.86% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 10 34
10th Percentile £403 £397 £343
25th Percentile £407 £408 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.47% - -2.56%
75th Percentile £450 £566 £500
90th Percentile £555 £605 £573
England median daily rate £450 £500 £483
% change year-on-year -10.00% +3.63% +4.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £31.89 £21.70
25th Percentile - £32.86 £27.25
Median hourly rate - £36.54 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year - -6.31% -
75th Percentile - £41.05 £43.10
90th Percentile - £42.50 £44.05
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,443 2,101 2,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.46% 90.80% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,396 1,766
10th Percentile £275 £294 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £582 £600 £550
90th Percentile £651 £700 £640
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 64 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £22.00 £20.38 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £54.84 £27.50
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

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 4 May 2024.

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 4 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
South Yorkshire +19 25 £412 -0.18% 5
West Yorkshire +36 16 £458 -6.15% 17
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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (26.83%) GitHub
2 8 (19.51%) Azure
3 7 (17.07%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (4.88%) Slack
5 1 (2.44%) SaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.88%) Remote Desktop
2 1 (2.44%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server
1 5 (12.20%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (24.39%) Jenkins
2 5 (12.20%) Git
2 5 (12.20%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Selenium
2 5 (12.20%) Team Foundation Server
3 4 (9.76%) JUnit
4 3 (7.32%) JMeter
5 2 (4.88%) Postman
6 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
6 1 (2.44%) REST Assured
6 1 (2.44%) TestNG
General
1 14 (34.15%) Social Skills
2 3 (7.32%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.44%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (46.34%) Storage Manager
2 6 (14.63%) Developer
3 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence Developer
3 5 (12.20%) SQL BI Developer
3 5 (12.20%) SQL Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Tester
5 3 (7.32%) Test Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) Hardware Engineer
6 2 (4.88%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.88%) Senior
6 2 (4.88%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.88%) Test Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Agile Business Analyst
7 1 (2.44%) Automation Tester
7 1 (2.44%) Cisco Design Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Cisco Network Design Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Junior Manual Tester
7 1 (2.44%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Site Engineer
7 1 (2.44%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (24.39%) YAML
2 3 (7.32%) Gherkin
3 1 (2.44%) pytest
3 1 (2.44%) RESTful
3 1 (2.44%) Swagger
3 1 (2.44%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (21.95%) Data Centre
2 4 (9.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (34.15%) zOS
2 13 (31.71%) Linux
3 2 (4.88%) Android
3 2 (4.88%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (48.78%) Storage Management
2 19 (46.34%) Agile
2 19 (46.34%) Cost Management
2 19 (46.34%) Project Management
2 19 (46.34%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (31.71%) Problem Management
4 9 (21.95%) Test Scripting
5 8 (19.51%) DevOps
5 8 (19.51%) Unit Testing
6 7 (17.07%) User Stories
7 6 (14.63%) Acceptance Criteria
7 6 (14.63%) Test Automation
8 5 (12.20%) API Testing
8 5 (12.20%) Business Intelligence
8 5 (12.20%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (7.32%) Kanban
9 3 (7.32%) Scrum
9 3 (7.32%) SDET
9 3 (7.32%) Software Delivery
9 3 (7.32%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (31.71%) JCL
2 11 (26.83%) Python
3 10 (24.39%) REXX
4 7 (17.07%) Java
5 5 (12.20%) SQL
6 1 (2.44%) C#
6 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.20%) QA
2 3 (7.32%) Accessibility
2 3 (7.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (31.71%) NFS
1 13 (31.71%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 20 (48.78%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 11 (26.83%) Ansible
3 1 (2.44%) Terraform
Vendors
1 20 (48.78%) IBM
2 15 (36.59%) Broadcom
2 15 (36.59%) Dell
3 13 (31.71%) Brocade
3 13 (31.71%) CA
4 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
5 1 (2.44%) Cisco
5 1 (2.44%) Ribbon