Software Testing Contracts in Hampshire

Software Testing
South East > Hampshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hampshire 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 87 74 49
Rank change year-on-year -13 -25 +13
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 14 27 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hampshire 0.81% 2.12% 4.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.99% 2.37% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 56
10th Percentile £259 £253 £350
25th Percentile £395 £408 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £481 £445
Median % change year-on-year -16.88% +8.15% -4.30%
75th Percentile £494 £541 £510
90th Percentile £554 £580 £566
South East median daily rate £425 £400 £464
% change year-on-year +6.25% -13.75% +14.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 11
10th Percentile £60.80 £50.88 £17.25
25th Percentile - £51.25 £24.50
Median hourly rate £62.00 £56.25 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.22% +125.00% -56.33%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £55.52
90th Percentile £65.81 - £65.00
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.78% - -21.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,411 1,138 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 81.61% 89.40% 89.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 719 1,085
10th Percentile £388 £240 £310
25th Percentile £463 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +12.29% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £675 £615 £613
90th Percentile £738 £688 £688
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 97 144
10th Percentile £13.05 £15.92 £13.29
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £57.35 £55.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.27% +124.49% -31.94%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.63 £48.86
90th Percentile £78.00 £75.00 £64.48
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
% change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Hampshire

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire 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
Portsmouth -2 8 £63 -87.98% 1
Aldershot - 3 £400 -
Eastleigh - 2 £450 -
Farnborough -7 1 £635 +27.00% 6
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hampshire 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 (14.29%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) MTS
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (35.71%) SNMP
2 4 (28.57%) Software-Defined Radio
3 1 (7.14%) RS-232
3 1 (7.14%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 4 (28.57%) Git
1 4 (28.57%) GoogleTest
1 4 (28.57%) Robot Framework
2 2 (14.29%) Bitbucket
2 2 (14.29%) ClearCase
2 2 (14.29%) ClearQuest
2 2 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) LabVIEW
3 1 (7.14%) GitLab
3 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
3 1 (7.14%) JUnit
3 1 (7.14%) Selenium
3 1 (7.14%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (7.14%) TestNG
3 1 (7.14%) Travis CI
General
1 4 (28.57%) Aerospace
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Electronics
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Test Engineer
2 6 (42.86%) Software Test Engineer
3 4 (28.57%) Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Environment Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) Senior
5 2 (14.29%) Senior Software Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Systems Test Engineer
5 2 (14.29%) Test Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) FPGA Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) RF Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) RF Test Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Software Test Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Systems Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (7.14%) Software Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Software Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 2 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.14%) Algorithms
2 1 (7.14%) FPGA
2 1 (7.14%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 6 (42.86%) Validation
3 5 (35.71%) Computer Science
4 4 (28.57%) Configuration Management
4 4 (28.57%) Prototyping
4 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 4 (28.57%) Verification and Validation
5 3 (21.43%) Agile
5 3 (21.43%) Defect Tracking
5 3 (21.43%) Deployment Automation
5 3 (21.43%) Scrum
5 3 (21.43%) Sprint Backlog
5 3 (21.43%) UML
6 2 (14.29%) Architectural Design
6 2 (14.29%) DevOps
6 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 2 (14.29%) QMS
6 2 (14.29%) Quality Management
6 2 (14.29%) SysML
6 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) C++
2 2 (14.29%) C
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.14%) Bash
3 1 (7.14%) Embedded C
3 1 (7.14%) Embedded C++
3 1 (7.14%) Java
3 1 (7.14%) MATLAB
3 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Degree
1 5 (35.71%) SC Cleared
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.14%) Chartered Engineer
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) Firmware
2 1 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP ALM
2 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Google
2 2 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 2 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (7.14%) Sitecore
3 1 (7.14%) Xilinx