Software Testing Contracts in West Sussex

Software Testing
South East > West Sussex

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 36 28 51
Rank change year-on-year -8 +23 -8
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 5 19 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 2.02% 6.17% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.23% 6.99% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 2
10th Percentile £361 £325 -
25th Percentile £370 £364 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £374 £313
Median % change year-on-year +6.95% +19.68% -36.22%
75th Percentile £425 £375 £319
90th Percentile - £379 -
South East median daily rate £425 £400 £464
% change year-on-year +6.25% -13.75% +14.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
South East median hourly rate £62.00 £45.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year +37.78% - -21.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 224 272 385
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 90.69% 88.31% 90.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 219 310
10th Percentile £304 £196 £173
25th Percentile £400 £281 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £494
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -3.85% +9.78%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £588
90th Percentile £596 £698 £638
South East median daily rate £510 £504 £500
% change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 6
10th Percentile £14.07 £17.60 £14.21
25th Percentile £18.20 - £18.29
Median hourly rate £21.50 £22.16 £28.20
Median % change year-on-year -2.98% -21.40% -42.16%
75th Percentile £26.63 £22.64 £50.19
90th Percentile £29.00 £24.55 £59.50
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 West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in West Sussex

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex 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
Burgess Hill - 3 £400 - 3
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 1 (20.00%) JBoss
Cloud Services
1 5 (100.00%) GitHub
2 2 (40.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Apache Cassandra
1 3 (60.00%) Couchbase
1 3 (60.00%) NoSQL
1 3 (60.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Git
1 5 (100.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (40.00%) GitLab
3 1 (20.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (20.00%) IntelliJ
3 1 (20.00%) JMeter
3 1 (20.00%) JUnit
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Java Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) Spring
1 3 (60.00%) Spring Boot
2 2 (40.00%) Jest
2 2 (40.00%) React
2 2 (40.00%) Redux
2 2 (40.00%) REST
3 1 (20.00%) Kafka
3 1 (20.00%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Event-Driven
3 2 (40.00%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (40.00%) Microservices
3 2 (40.00%) Open Source
3 2 (40.00%) SEO
3 2 (40.00%) Workflow
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 1 (20.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Go
2 2 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (40.00%) Kotlin
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Grafana
1 1 (20.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle
1 1 (20.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk