Software Testing Contracts in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 97 117 115
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 92 89 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.69% 1.59% 2.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.00% 1.79% 2.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 52 96
10th Percentile - £351 £350
25th Percentile £205 £374 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £451
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -11.36% +8.73%
75th Percentile £633 £530 £528
90th Percentile £688 £588 £619
England median daily rate £455 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -9.10% +2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 21 19
10th Percentile £19.25 - £22.65
25th Percentile £39.13 £42.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% - -20.35%
75th Percentile £62.25 £50.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £56.47 £57.82
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
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,596 4,978 6,849
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.27% 89.15% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,675 3,464 4,669
10th Percentile £250 £248 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% +1.50% +8.70%
75th Percentile £625 £615 £595
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 439 213 279
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £11.99
25th Percentile £18.20 £22.16 £14.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +132.56% -21.82%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £61.50
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 the South East

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Testing in the South East

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +35 53 £444 +1.43% 41
Berkshire +23 48 £425 -7.86% 24
Hampshire -11 16 £400 -18.58% 25
Surrey +7 13 £450 +12.50% 16
Buckinghamshire +26 5 £463 +25.00% 15
West Sussex -8 5 £400 +6.95% 6
Kent +6 2 £105 -83.20% 3
East Sussex +4 1 - - 2
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (7.61%) Confluence
2 1 (1.09%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.09%) Apache
2 1 (1.09%) JBoss
2 1 (1.09%) MTS
Applications
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 14 (15.22%) AWS
2 6 (6.52%) GitHub
3 3 (3.26%) Azure
3 3 (3.26%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.17%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.09%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.30%) LAN
2 5 (5.43%) SNMP
3 4 (4.35%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (4.35%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.17%) Internet
4 2 (2.17%) RS-232
5 1 (1.09%) SMS
5 1 (1.09%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (18.48%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (16.30%) Oracle Database
3 13 (14.13%) Oracle Database 11g
4 4 (4.35%) Apache Cassandra
4 4 (4.35%) Couchbase
4 4 (4.35%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.09%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 19 (20.65%) Git
2 11 (11.96%) Jenkins
3 9 (9.78%) JIRA
4 6 (6.52%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.35%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.35%) Eclipse
5 4 (4.35%) GitLab
5 4 (4.35%) GoogleTest
5 4 (4.35%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.26%) LabVIEW
7 2 (2.17%) ClearCase
7 2 (2.17%) ClearQuest
7 2 (2.17%) JUnit
7 2 (2.17%) Selenium
8 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.09%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
8 1 (1.09%) TestNG
8 1 (1.09%) Travis CI
8 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 16 (17.39%) Organisational Skills
3 8 (8.70%) Telecoms
4 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Aerospace
6 3 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.17%) Electronics
7 2 (2.17%) German Language
7 2 (2.17%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.17%) Public Sector
7 2 (2.17%) Spanish Language
8 1 (1.09%) Automotive
8 1 (1.09%) Games
8 1 (1.09%) Law
8 1 (1.09%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 18 (19.57%) Developer
2 16 (17.39%) Hardware Engineer
2 16 (17.39%) Test Engineer
3 13 (14.13%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 9 (9.78%) Analyst
5 8 (8.70%) Software Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Software Test Engineer
5 8 (8.70%) Test Manager
6 7 (7.61%) Senior
7 5 (5.43%) Break Fix Engineer
7 5 (5.43%) Tester
8 4 (4.35%) Development Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Software Development Engineer
8 4 (4.35%) Test Analyst
8 4 (4.35%) Test Development Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Software Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) Software Test Analyst
9 3 (3.26%) Systems Test Engineer
9 3 (3.26%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) Web Services
2 6 (6.52%) HTML
3 5 (5.43%) CSS
3 5 (5.43%) XML
4 4 (4.35%) RESTful
4 4 (4.35%) SOAP
5 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.26%) Node.js
5 3 (3.26%) React
5 3 (3.26%) REST
5 3 (3.26%) Spring
5 3 (3.26%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.17%) Jest
6 2 (2.17%) Redux
7 1 (1.09%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.09%) jQuery
7 1 (1.09%) Kafka
7 1 (1.09%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 15 (16.30%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.52%) Life Science
3 3 (3.26%) NHS
4 2 (2.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.09%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.09%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.09%) FPGA
5 1 (1.09%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.09%) VHDL
5 1 (1.09%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (21.74%) Windows
2 15 (16.30%) Windows 10
2 15 (16.30%) Windows 7
3 14 (15.22%) Linux
4 10 (10.87%) Unix
5 4 (4.35%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (34.78%) Software Engineering
2 30 (32.61%) Agile
3 29 (31.52%) Test Automation
4 26 (28.26%) Problem-Solving
5 21 (22.83%) DevOps
6 18 (19.57%) Computer Science
7 17 (18.48%) Customer Service
8 16 (17.39%) Architectural Design
8 16 (17.39%) Customer Requirements
8 16 (17.39%) Software Deployment
8 16 (17.39%) Unit Testing
9 15 (16.30%) ITIL
9 15 (16.30%) Service Delivery
10 14 (15.22%) Data Migration
10 14 (15.22%) Migration
11 13 (14.13%) Clean Code
11 13 (14.13%) Performance Tuning
11 13 (14.13%) Secure Coding
12 10 (10.87%) Test Strategy
13 9 (9.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 29 (31.52%) SQL
2 13 (14.13%) PL/SQL
3 10 (10.87%) C++
4 8 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 7 (7.61%) Python
6 6 (6.52%) C
6 6 (6.52%) Java
7 3 (3.26%) Go
8 2 (2.17%) Bash
8 2 (2.17%) C#
8 2 (2.17%) Kotlin
8 2 (2.17%) PHP
8 2 (2.17%) ProC
9 1 (1.09%) Embedded C
9 1 (1.09%) Embedded C++
9 1 (1.09%) MATLAB
9 1 (1.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (39.13%) Security Cleared
2 34 (36.96%) Degree
3 20 (21.74%) SC Cleared
4 16 (17.39%) DV Cleared
5 14 (15.22%) ISTQB
6 11 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.09%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) QA
2 5 (5.43%) HL7
3 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
System Software
1 18 (19.57%) Firmware
2 4 (4.35%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.35%) VirtualBox
3 2 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (16.30%) SCCM
2 4 (4.35%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.17%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.09%) Grafana
4 1 (1.09%) Kibana
Vendors
1 25 (27.17%) Oracle
2 17 (18.48%) HP
3 16 (17.39%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.35%) Google
5 3 (3.26%) Atlassian
5 3 (3.26%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.09%) Adobe
6 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.09%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.09%) Splunk
6 1 (1.09%) Xilinx