Software Testing Contracts in London

Software Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 203 193 209
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +32
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 208 337 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.19% 1.30% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.34% 1.44% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 254 351
10th Percentile £325 £332 £363
25th Percentile £375 £441 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -15.45% +7.32% +7.89%
75th Percentile £613 £675 £600
90th Percentile £703 £738 £675
England median daily rate £455 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -9.10% +2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 6
10th Percentile - £44.63 £15.75
25th Percentile £40.82 £45.00 £18.06
Median hourly rate £43.84 £52.58 £36.79
Median % change year-on-year -16.62% +42.92% +51.09%
75th Percentile £46.86 £61.13 £50.75
90th Percentile - £72.15 £56.36
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
% change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,495 23,478 35,602
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.66% 90.88% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,110 16,936 26,017
10th Percentile £343 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 307 270 417
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.50 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +15.38%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.94 £51.48
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.28 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
Central London +39 36 £475 -17.35% 9
West London +25 6 £521 +18.41% 2
East London -3 6 £435 - 5
South London 0 4 £465 -2.11% 6
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 7 (3.37%) Confluence
2 5 (2.40%) CMS
3 4 (1.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.92%) OpenStack
4 3 (1.44%) Headless CMS
4 3 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.44%) WebLogic
4 3 (1.44%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.96%) Apache
5 2 (0.96%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.48%) Tornado
Applications
1 8 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (3.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (1.44%) Windchill
4 1 (0.48%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Endur
2 4 (1.92%) FLEXCUBE
3 3 (1.44%) ENOVIA
3 3 (1.44%) Oracle BPM
3 3 (1.44%) Teamcenter
4 2 (0.96%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.96%) SAP CO
4 2 (0.96%) SAP FI
4 2 (0.96%) SAP FI/CO
4 2 (0.96%) SAP FSCM
4 2 (0.96%) WebTrends
5 1 (0.48%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.48%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.48%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 44 (21.15%) Azure
2 37 (17.79%) AWS
3 21 (10.10%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.33%) Serverless
5 8 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
5 8 (3.85%) SaaS
6 7 (3.37%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.88%) GitHub
7 6 (2.88%) PaaS
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon EC2
8 5 (2.40%) Amazon S3
9 4 (1.92%) Amazon ECS
9 4 (1.92%) Google Analytics
9 4 (1.92%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.44%) Cloud Computing
10 3 (1.44%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.96%) Amazon Kinesis
11 2 (0.96%) Boomi
11 2 (0.96%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.40%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (1.92%) DHCP
2 4 (1.92%) DNS
2 4 (1.92%) Firewall
3 3 (1.44%) FTP
3 3 (1.44%) SMS
4 2 (0.96%) HTTP
5 1 (0.48%) 5G
5 1 (0.48%) Broadband
5 1 (0.48%) HbbTV
5 1 (0.48%) MVNO
5 1 (0.48%) VLAN
5 1 (0.48%) VoLTE
5 1 (0.48%) VoWiFi
5 1 (0.48%) VPN
5 1 (0.48%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (8.65%) SQL Server
2 8 (3.85%) NoSQL
3 6 (2.88%) Amazon Redshift
3 6 (2.88%) Relational Database
4 5 (2.40%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
5 4 (1.92%) MySQL
5 4 (1.92%) Power BI
6 3 (1.44%) Apache Cassandra
6 3 (1.44%) Data Lake
6 3 (1.44%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.96%) Big Data
7 2 (0.96%) DynamoDB
7 2 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.48%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 43 (20.67%) Selenium
2 37 (17.79%) Git
3 28 (13.46%) Postman
4 26 (12.50%) Cucumber
5 25 (12.02%) JIRA
6 22 (10.58%) WebDriver
7 19 (9.13%) JUnit
8 16 (7.69%) REST Assured
9 15 (7.21%) Appium
10 14 (6.73%) TestNG
11 11 (5.29%) Jenkins
11 11 (5.29%) SoapUI
11 11 (5.29%) Visual Studio
12 10 (4.81%) eggPlant
12 10 (4.81%) SOAtest
12 10 (4.81%) SpecFlow
13 8 (3.85%) LoadRunner
14 7 (3.37%) Cypress.io
14 7 (3.37%) GitLab
14 7 (3.37%) JMeter
General
1 74 (35.58%) Social Skills
2 45 (21.63%) Finance
3 40 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (14.90%) Back Office
5 25 (12.02%) Banking
6 20 (9.62%) Public Sector
7 11 (5.29%) Investment Banking
8 9 (4.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 9 (4.33%) Retail
9 6 (2.88%) Front Office
10 5 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.40%) Retail Banking
10 5 (2.40%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.92%) Legal
12 3 (1.44%) Corporate Banking
12 3 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 2 (0.96%) Law
14 1 (0.48%) Automotive
14 1 (0.48%) Financial Institution
14 1 (0.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (19.71%) Senior
2 39 (18.75%) Analyst
3 29 (13.94%) Developer
4 28 (13.46%) Lead
5 27 (12.98%) Tester
6 24 (11.54%) Test Analyst
7 19 (9.13%) Senior Analyst
8 18 (8.65%) Senior Test Analyst
9 15 (7.21%) Test Engineer
10 13 (6.25%) Software Engineer
11 12 (5.77%) Software Developer
12 11 (5.29%) QA Engineer
13 10 (4.81%) React Developer
13 10 (4.81%) Test Manager
14 9 (4.33%) Automation Engineer
15 8 (3.85%) Business Analyst
15 8 (3.85%) Manual Tester
15 8 (3.85%) Technical Leader
15 8 (3.85%) Test Automation Engineer
16 7 (3.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (15.38%) .NET
2 22 (10.58%) .NET Framework
3 21 (10.10%) React
4 15 (7.21%) AngularJS
5 14 (6.73%) HTML
6 13 (6.25%) REST
7 12 (5.77%) Redux
8 10 (4.81%) Web Services
9 9 (4.33%) CSS
9 9 (4.33%) GraphQL
9 9 (4.33%) Node.js
10 7 (3.37%) ADO
10 7 (3.37%) React Native
10 7 (3.37%) RESTful
11 6 (2.88%) Angular 2
11 6 (2.88%) Blazor
11 6 (2.88%) Entity Framework
11 6 (2.88%) HTML5
12 5 (2.40%) jQuery
12 5 (2.40%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 17 (8.17%) Product Ownership
2 16 (7.69%) Mobile App
3 8 (3.85%) Algorithms
4 7 (3.37%) Data Structures
5 6 (2.88%) Replication
5 6 (2.88%) Self-Motivation
6 5 (2.40%) Client/Server
6 5 (2.40%) Clustering
6 5 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 5 (2.40%) Greenfield Project
7 4 (1.92%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
8 3 (1.44%) Derivative
8 3 (1.44%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.44%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.96%) Equities
9 2 (0.96%) Life Science
9 2 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.96%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 20 (9.62%) Android
2 14 (6.73%) Windows
3 10 (4.81%) Linux
4 3 (1.44%) Unix
5 2 (0.96%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.96%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.48%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.48%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (56.73%) Agile
2 110 (52.88%) Test Automation
3 54 (25.96%) CI/CD
4 51 (24.52%) Software Engineering
5 49 (23.56%) Continuous Integration
6 47 (22.60%) DevOps
7 43 (20.67%) Test Strategy
8 38 (18.27%) Problem-Solving
9 36 (17.31%) Scrum
10 28 (13.46%) Performance Testing
11 26 (12.50%) SDLC
11 26 (12.50%) User Stories
12 24 (11.54%) TDD
12 24 (11.54%) Test Scripting
13 23 (11.06%) End-to-End Testing
14 21 (10.10%) Acceptance Criteria
15 20 (9.62%) Manual Testing
16 19 (9.13%) BDD
16 19 (9.13%) Regression Testing
16 19 (9.13%) SDET
Programming Languages
1 45 (21.63%) Java
2 43 (20.67%) C#
3 38 (18.27%) Python
4 37 (17.79%) SQL
5 30 (14.42%) JavaScript
6 24 (11.54%) TypeScript
7 14 (6.73%) Kotlin
8 10 (4.81%) PowerShell
9 7 (3.37%) Go
10 6 (2.88%) Bash
11 5 (2.40%) C
12 3 (1.44%) Bicep
12 3 (1.44%) C++
12 3 (1.44%) Perl
13 2 (0.96%) Ruby
13 2 (0.96%) Scala
14 1 (0.48%) Ada
14 1 (0.48%) JCL
14 1 (0.48%) PHP
14 1 (0.48%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 39 (18.75%) Degree
2 29 (13.94%) Security Cleared
3 26 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 18 (8.65%) Computer Science Degree
5 16 (7.69%) ISTQB
6 4 (1.92%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.44%) ISEB
7 3 (1.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 3 (1.44%) Numerate Degree
8 2 (0.96%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.96%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) CTC Cleared
9 1 (0.48%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.48%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (18.75%) QA
2 4 (1.92%) PCI DSS
2 4 (1.92%) Software Quality Assurance
3 3 (1.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.48%) HL7
4 1 (0.48%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.48%) SLA
4 1 (0.48%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (5.29%) Docker
2 7 (3.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.48%) NFS
3 1 (0.48%) Time Sharing Option
3 1 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (6.73%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.88%) Ansible
3 5 (2.40%) SCCM
3 5 (2.40%) Terraform
4 3 (1.44%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 2 (0.96%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Clustering
5 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.48%) Grafana
6 1 (0.48%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.48%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.48%) Iperf
6 1 (0.48%) Opsgenie
6 1 (0.48%) Progress Chef
6 1 (0.48%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.48%) Puppet
6 1 (0.48%) Rancher
Vendors
1 36 (17.31%) Microsoft
2 15 (7.21%) Oracle
3 10 (4.81%) IBM
4 6 (2.88%) Adobe
4 6 (2.88%) HP
4 6 (2.88%) OpenLink
5 4 (1.92%) Databricks
5 4 (1.92%) Google
5 4 (1.92%) Optimizely
5 4 (1.92%) SAP
6 3 (1.44%) Broadcom
6 3 (1.44%) Dell
6 3 (1.44%) Micro Focus
6 3 (1.44%) PTC
6 3 (1.44%) Siemens
6 3 (1.44%) Splunk
7 2 (0.96%) Ab Initio
7 2 (0.96%) Apple
7 2 (0.96%) Maxymiser
7 2 (0.96%) Sybase