Software Testing Contracts in the South East

Software Testing
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 121 120
Rank change year-on-year +2 -1 -13
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 81 95 154
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.41% 1.68% 2.01%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% 1.88% 2.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 56 96
10th Percentile £205 £356 £350
25th Percentile £232 £374 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £465
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -13.98% +16.25%
75th Percentile £614 £520 £541
90th Percentile £688 £584 £619
England median daily rate £457 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -8.60% - +7.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 22 20
10th Percentile £44.37 - £24.90
25th Percentile £61.25 £42.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £62.00 £45.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.78% - -20.35%
75th Percentile £63.13 £54.69 £47.50
90th Percentile £65.61 £58.75 £56.93
England median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £54.89
% change year-on-year +19.05% -4.35% +18.81%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,758 5,043 6,873
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.70% 89.05% 89.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,760 3,463 4,677
10th Percentile £260 £250 £246
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.79% +1.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 468 218 275
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.25 £12.31
25th Percentile £18.32 £25.95 £15.50
Median hourly rate £49.50 £52.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.71% +133.33% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.16 £48.67
90th Percentile £76.90 £75.00 £64.90
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 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
Thames Valley +27 45 £463 +7.25% 35
Berkshire +14 41 £500 +14.29% 15
Hampshire -20 15 £425 -15.00% 16
Surrey +14 12 £425 +6.25% 12
West Sussex -7 5 £400 +6.95% 6
Buckinghamshire +25 4 £444 +19.93% 15
Kent +7 2 £105 -83.20% 1
East Sussex +3 1 - - 1
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 6 (7.41%) Confluence
2 1 (1.23%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.23%) Apache
2 1 (1.23%) JBoss
2 1 (1.23%) MTS
Applications
1 12 (14.81%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.23%) Simulink
Cloud Services
1 12 (14.81%) AWS
2 5 (6.17%) GitHub
3 3 (3.70%) Azure
4 2 (2.47%) GitHub Actions
4 2 (2.47%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.23%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 12 (14.81%) LAN
2 5 (6.17%) SNMP
3 4 (4.94%) Software-Defined Radio
3 4 (4.94%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.47%) 4G
4 2 (2.47%) 5G
4 2 (2.47%) DVB
4 2 (2.47%) Internet
4 2 (2.47%) Wireless
5 1 (1.23%) RS-232
5 1 (1.23%) SMS
5 1 (1.23%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (17.28%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (16.05%) Oracle Database
3 11 (13.58%) Oracle Database 11g
4 3 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (3.70%) Couchbase
4 3 (3.70%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.23%) MongoDB
5 1 (1.23%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 18 (22.22%) Git
2 10 (12.35%) Jenkins
3 8 (9.88%) JIRA
4 6 (7.41%) Bitbucket
5 4 (4.94%) Artifactory
5 4 (4.94%) Eclipse
5 4 (4.94%) GoogleTest
5 4 (4.94%) Robot Framework
6 3 (3.70%) GitLab
6 3 (3.70%) Selenium
7 2 (2.47%) ClearCase
7 2 (2.47%) ClearQuest
7 2 (2.47%) JUnit
7 2 (2.47%) LabVIEW
8 1 (1.23%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.23%) IntelliJ
8 1 (1.23%) JMeter
8 1 (1.23%) Ranorex
8 1 (1.23%) TestNG
8 1 (1.23%) Visual Studio
General
1 29 (35.80%) Social Skills
2 13 (16.05%) Organisational Skills
3 9 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 6 (7.41%) Aerospace
5 5 (6.17%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (2.47%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.23%) Automotive
7 1 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.23%) Electronics
7 1 (1.23%) Games
7 1 (1.23%) Law
7 1 (1.23%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Developer
2 13 (16.05%) Hardware Engineer
2 13 (16.05%) Test Engineer
3 11 (13.58%) PostgreSQL Developer
4 10 (12.35%) Analyst
5 9 (11.11%) Test Manager
6 7 (8.64%) Software Engineer
6 7 (8.64%) Software Test Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Break Fix Engineer
7 5 (6.17%) Test Analyst
8 4 (4.94%) Development Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Senior
8 4 (4.94%) Software Development Engineer
8 4 (4.94%) Test Development Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Lead
9 3 (3.70%) Linux Engineer
9 3 (3.70%) Software Analyst
9 3 (3.70%) Software Test Analyst
10 2 (2.47%) Designer
10 2 (2.47%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (9.88%) Web Services
2 6 (7.41%) HTML
3 5 (6.17%) CSS
3 5 (6.17%) XML
4 4 (4.94%) RESTful
4 4 (4.94%) SOAP
5 3 (3.70%) AngularJS
5 3 (3.70%) Node.js
5 3 (3.70%) React
5 3 (3.70%) Spring
5 3 (3.70%) Spring Boot
6 2 (2.47%) Jest
6 2 (2.47%) Redux
6 2 (2.47%) REST
7 1 (1.23%) ADO
7 1 (1.23%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.23%) jQuery
7 1 (1.23%) Kafka
7 1 (1.23%) Vert.x
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.81%) Driving Licence
2 6 (7.41%) Life Science
3 3 (3.70%) NHS
4 2 (2.47%) Embedded Systems
4 2 (2.47%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.23%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.23%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (1.23%) FPGA
5 1 (1.23%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.23%) VHDL
5 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 17 (20.99%) Windows
2 16 (19.75%) Linux
3 12 (14.81%) Windows 10
3 12 (14.81%) Windows 7
4 7 (8.64%) Unix
5 4 (4.94%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (35.80%) Test Automation
2 28 (34.57%) Software Engineering
3 25 (30.86%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (28.40%) Agile
5 19 (23.46%) Computer Science
5 19 (23.46%) DevOps
6 14 (17.28%) Customer Requirements
6 14 (17.28%) Customer Service
6 14 (17.28%) Unit Testing
7 13 (16.05%) Architectural Design
7 13 (16.05%) Software Deployment
8 12 (14.81%) Data Migration
8 12 (14.81%) ITIL
8 12 (14.81%) Migration
8 12 (14.81%) Service Delivery
9 11 (13.58%) Clean Code
9 11 (13.58%) Performance Tuning
9 11 (13.58%) Secure Coding
10 10 (12.35%) Continuous Integration
11 9 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 24 (29.63%) SQL
2 11 (13.58%) PL/SQL
3 9 (11.11%) C++
3 9 (11.11%) Python
4 8 (9.88%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.64%) C
6 6 (7.41%) Java
7 2 (2.47%) Bash
7 2 (2.47%) C#
7 2 (2.47%) Go
7 2 (2.47%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.47%) PHP
7 2 (2.47%) ProC
7 2 (2.47%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.23%) Embedded C
8 1 (1.23%) Embedded C++
8 1 (1.23%) MATLAB
8 1 (1.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 32 (39.51%) Degree
2 28 (34.57%) Security Cleared
3 16 (19.75%) SC Cleared
4 12 (14.81%) Computer Science Degree
4 12 (14.81%) DV Cleared
5 9 (11.11%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.23%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (1.23%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.23%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.64%) QA
2 5 (6.17%) HL7
3 3 (3.70%) Accessibility
System Software
1 15 (18.52%) Firmware
2 4 (4.94%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (4.94%) VirtualBox
3 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.81%) SCCM
2 3 (3.70%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.47%) HP ALM
4 1 (1.23%) Grafana
4 1 (1.23%) Kibana
Vendors
1 20 (24.69%) Oracle
2 14 (17.28%) HP
3 13 (16.05%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.94%) Google
5 3 (3.70%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.47%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.23%) Adobe
7 1 (1.23%) ServiceNow
7 1 (1.23%) Sitecore
7 1 (1.23%) Splunk
7 1 (1.23%) Xilinx