Software Testing Contracts in Lancashire

Software Testing
North West > Lancashire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 23 - 37
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.61% - 1.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.37% - 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £454
25th Percentile - - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - £575
75th Percentile - - £659
90th Percentile - - £706
North West median daily rate £413 £398 £463
% change year-on-year +3.77% -14.05% +21.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.55 - -
Median hourly rate £45.88 - £44.68
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £45.88 - £44.68
% change year-on-year - - -1.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 178 211 227
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 77.39% 87.55% 91.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 111 162
10th Percentile £220 £313 £207
25th Percentile £400 £400 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +18.75%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £600
90th Percentile £656 £700 £749
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 44 32
10th Percentile - £25.75 £13.28
25th Percentile £16.06 £29.30 £14.75
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.50 £27.66
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% +53.67% +42.42%
75th Percentile £46.03 £49.70 £46.80
90th Percentile £48.00 £56.38 £92.67
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £23.22
% change year-on-year -23.83% +50.72% +29.66%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Lancashire

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Lancashire

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Lancashire

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Misys Midas
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) HTTP
1 3 (50.00%) SSL
Development Applications
1 6 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (50.00%) Bitbucket
2 3 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 3 (50.00%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (50.00%) JDBC
1 3 (50.00%) JPA
1 3 (50.00%) JWT
1 3 (50.00%) Spring
1 3 (50.00%) WebSockets
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Data Modelling
3 3 (50.00%) Dependency Injection
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) DevSecOps
3 3 (50.00%) Kanban
3 3 (50.00%) Load Balancing
3 3 (50.00%) Microservices
3 3 (50.00%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 3 (50.00%) Multithreading
3 3 (50.00%) Requirements Management
3 3 (50.00%) SysML
3 3 (50.00%) UML
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) C++
1 3 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) MISRA
1 3 (50.00%) MISRA C
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle