Software Tester Contracts in County Antrim

Software Tester
Northern Ireland > County Antrim

The median Software Tester daily rate in County Antrim is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Tester 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in County Antrim 2.26% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 2.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £538 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £644 - -
90th Percentile £663 - -
Northern Ireland median daily rate £613 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
County Antrim

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in County Antrim. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in County Antrim with a recognized job title 127 135 171
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.49% 88.82% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 65 84
10th Percentile £171 £162 £145
25th Percentile £281 £263 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £433
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -1.73% +8.13%
75th Percentile £613 £500 £500
90th Percentile £675 £645 £560
Northern Ireland median daily rate £494 £425 £433
% change year-on-year +16.18% -1.73% +4.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 5 20
10th Percentile £12.25 - £10.22
25th Percentile £12.81 £13.91 £10.52
Median hourly rate £15.75 £15.50 £13.45
Median % change year-on-year +1.61% +15.28% +12.04%
75th Percentile £23.94 £16.50 £21.00
90th Percentile £31.08 £17.23 £21.33
Northern Ireland median hourly rate £15.63 £15.50 £13.45
% change year-on-year +0.84% +15.28% -3.96%

Software Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in County Antrim

Job postings that featured Software Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in County Antrim.

Job vacancy trend for Software Tester in County Antrim

Software Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in County Antrim

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Tester in County Antrim.

Daily rate trend for Software Tester in County Antrim

Software Tester
Contract Job Locations in County Antrim

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the County Antrim 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
Belfast - 3 £575 - 2
Software Tester
Northern Ireland

Software Tester Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Software Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the County Antrim region featuring Software Tester in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Java
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
3 1 (33.33%) Maven
3 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging

Software Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in County Antrim 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 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maven
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) REST
1 3 (100.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (66.67%) Spring
2 2 (66.67%) Web Services
3 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft