Software Testing Contracts in Central London

Software Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 99 117 129
Rank change year-on-year +18 +12 -1
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 38 57 65
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 1.59% 1.54% 1.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.75% 1.68% 1.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 46 36
10th Percentile - £371 £406
25th Percentile £375 £505 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £653 £500
Median % change year-on-year -25.27% +30.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £606 £725 £585
90th Percentile £750 £825 £650
London median daily rate £475 £575 £513
% change year-on-year -17.39% +12.20% +7.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,175 3,386 4,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.81% 91.29% 92.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,537 2,291 3,136
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £450 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £675 £725 £688
90th Percentile £799 £813 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 45
10th Percentile £20.22 £14.85 £18.50
25th Percentile £23.03 £17.56 £25.25
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -15.66% +107.50%
75th Percentile £32.09 £53.38 £55.25
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £62.50
London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.21 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.59% +10.45% +8.07%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Central London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

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 Central London region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
City of London +27 37 £494 -25.71% 3
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (5.26%) Apache
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Spark
1 2 (5.26%) WebLogic
1 2 (5.26%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.63%) Confluence
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Endur
2 1 (2.63%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) AWS
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) BrowserStack
5 2 (5.26%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) BlazeMeter
6 1 (2.63%) Firebase
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (2.63%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (5.26%) Data Lake
1 2 (5.26%) MySQL
1 2 (5.26%) Power BI
1 2 (5.26%) Relational Database
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.63%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (2.63%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 13 (34.21%) Selenium
2 8 (21.05%) Postman
3 7 (18.42%) Cucumber
3 7 (18.42%) Git
4 6 (15.79%) JUnit
4 6 (15.79%) REST Assured
5 5 (13.16%) JIRA
6 4 (10.53%) TestNG
7 3 (7.89%) Appium
7 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
7 3 (7.89%) SoapUI
8 2 (5.26%) Android Studio
8 2 (5.26%) eggPlant
8 2 (5.26%) GitLab
8 2 (5.26%) Katalon Studio
8 2 (5.26%) Mockito
8 2 (5.26%) SOAtest
8 2 (5.26%) TestComplete
8 2 (5.26%) Visual Studio Code
8 2 (5.26%) WebDriver
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Finance
3 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (15.79%) Back Office
5 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
6 3 (7.89%) Banking
7 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
3 6 (15.79%) Test Analyst
4 5 (13.16%) Software Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Tester
5 4 (10.53%) Developer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Software Tester
6 3 (7.89%) Senior Tester
6 3 (7.89%) Software Tester
7 2 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) Developer/Software Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Insurance Business Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) QA Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) QA Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Scala Developer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) .NET
2 3 (7.89%) .NET Framework
3 2 (5.26%) AngularJS
3 2 (5.26%) jQuery
3 2 (5.26%) Kafka
3 2 (5.26%) Middleware
3 2 (5.26%) Playwright
3 2 (5.26%) REST
3 2 (5.26%) RESTful
3 2 (5.26%) SOAP
3 2 (5.26%) Spring
3 2 (5.26%) Spring Boot
3 2 (5.26%) Struts
3 2 (5.26%) Twitter Bootstrap
3 2 (5.26%) Web Services
4 1 (2.63%) Bazel
4 1 (2.63%) PySpark
4 1 (2.63%) SwiftUI
4 1 (2.63%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.63%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.63%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
2 1 (2.63%) Reinsurance
2 1 (2.63%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Android
2 2 (5.26%) Linux
2 2 (5.26%) Unix
2 2 (5.26%) Windows
3 1 (2.63%) Apple iOS
3 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (65.79%) Agile
2 24 (63.16%) Test Automation
3 11 (28.95%) CI/CD
4 10 (26.32%) SDET
5 9 (23.68%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (23.68%) Test Scripting
6 8 (21.05%) DevOps
7 7 (18.42%) Manual Testing
7 7 (18.42%) Microservices
8 6 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
8 6 (15.79%) Scrum
8 6 (15.79%) SDLC
9 5 (13.16%) Non-Functional Testing
9 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (13.16%) Software Engineering
9 5 (13.16%) Test Strategy
9 5 (13.16%) User Stories
10 4 (10.53%) Integration Testing
10 4 (10.53%) Migration
10 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) Java
2 7 (18.42%) C#
3 6 (15.79%) SQL
4 5 (13.16%) Python
5 4 (10.53%) Kotlin
6 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
6 2 (5.26%) Scala
7 1 (2.63%) Bash
7 1 (2.63%) C++
7 1 (2.63%) Go
7 1 (2.63%) JCL
7 1 (2.63%) PowerShell
7 1 (2.63%) Ruby
7 1 (2.63%) Swift
7 1 (2.63%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) Degree
2 4 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 3 (7.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (7.89%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.26%) ISEB
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.63%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.63%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) QA
2 1 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.63%) COBIT
2 1 (2.63%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 4 (10.53%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) NFS
2 1 (2.63%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (2.63%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) Rancher
3 1 (2.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 3 (7.89%) IBM
4 2 (5.26%) Databricks
4 2 (5.26%) Micro Focus
4 2 (5.26%) OpenLink
5 1 (2.63%) Broadcom
5 1 (2.63%) Brocade
5 1 (2.63%) CA
5 1 (2.63%) Dell
5 1 (2.63%) Guidewire
5 1 (2.63%) VMware