Software Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Software Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 55 65 82
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -27
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 8 12 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.08% 1.34% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.31% 1.54% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 9 6
10th Percentile £231 - £260
25th Percentile £250 £263 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £313 £400 £390
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +2.56% -5.45%
75th Percentile £488 £433 £519
90th Percentile £564 £548 £556
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £400 £380
% change year-on-year +18.75% +5.26% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 609 778 1,201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 81.85% 86.73% 91.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 407 509 859
10th Percentile £237 £263 £231
25th Percentile £375 £398 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £490
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +4.59% +15.29%
75th Percentile £581 £631 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £520 £495
% change year-on-year -3.85% +5.05% +16.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 31 20
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.00 £12.59
25th Percentile £18.50 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £26.00 £20.71 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +25.57% +20.10% -4.22%
75th Percentile £47.13 £29.38 £18.18
90th Percentile £56.25 £53.75 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £20.97 £17.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% +23.35% +6.25%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Birmingham

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Birmingham

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Birmingham

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Birmingham

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (12.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (12.50%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Artifactory
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Octopus Deploy
1 1 (12.50%) TeamCity
General
1 4 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
4 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Test Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Test Manager
4 1 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 1st/2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
4 1 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support
4 1 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) QA Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Android
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) DevOps
1 5 (62.50%) Test Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
4 2 (25.00%) ERP
4 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
5 1 (12.50%) Containerisation
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Customer Experience
5 1 (12.50%) DevSecOps
5 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Incident Response
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) ISEB
1 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Ansible
1 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
1 1 (12.50%) Rancher
1 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Guidewire
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) VMware