Software Testing Contracts in England

Software Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 174 187 183
Rank change year-on-year +13 -4 -8
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 494 652 1,131
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.34% 1.37% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.56% 1.53% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 442 736
10th Percentile £311 £310 £332
25th Percentile £379 £386 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £578 £650 £575
90th Percentile £678 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 64 63
10th Percentile £37.55 £42.50 £25.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £43.44 £39.71
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% +7.14% +6.52%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - £77.25 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £49.99
% change year-on-year +13.64% +10.03% +8.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Testing in England

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England 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
London +8 213 £475 -17.39% 80
South East +6 88 £425 +6.25% 92
North of England +30 77 £433 +1.76% 61
Yorkshire +47 48 £441 -7.11% 16
East of England -2 43 £533 +18.33% 50
Midlands +29 35 £488 +30.00% 70
North West +2 29 £413 +3.77% 37
West Midlands +22 27 £475 +18.75% 33
South West -13 24 £550 - 52
East Midlands +10 8 £500 +33.33% 38
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 17 (3.44%) Confluence
2 6 (1.21%) CMS
3 5 (1.01%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.01%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.81%) Apache
4 4 (0.81%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (0.81%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.61%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.61%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.61%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.20%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.20%) Appian
6 1 (0.20%) JBoss
6 1 (0.20%) MTS
Applications
1 23 (4.66%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.42%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.42%) Simulink
4 5 (1.01%) Stateflow
4 5 (1.01%) TargetLink
5 3 (0.61%) Windchill
6 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.20%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.21%) Endur
2 5 (1.01%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.81%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.61%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.61%) Misys Midas
4 3 (0.61%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.40%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.20%) Magento
6 1 (0.20%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.20%) SAP FSCM
6 1 (0.20%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.20%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.20%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 73 (14.78%) Azure
2 60 (12.15%) AWS
3 45 (9.11%) Azure DevOps
4 25 (5.06%) GitHub
5 15 (3.04%) Serverless
6 12 (2.43%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.02%) SaaS
8 9 (1.82%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (1.82%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.42%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.42%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.21%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.21%) PaaS
11 5 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.01%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.01%) GitHub Actions
11 5 (1.01%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.81%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.81%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (0.81%) Firebase
Communications & Networking
1 34 (6.88%) Modbus
1 34 (6.88%) RS-422
1 34 (6.88%) RS-485
2 13 (2.63%) LAN
3 6 (1.21%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.01%) DHCP
4 5 (1.01%) DNS
4 5 (1.01%) HTTP
4 5 (1.01%) SNMP
4 5 (1.01%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.81%) 5G
5 4 (0.81%) Firewall
5 4 (0.81%) SMS
5 4 (0.81%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.81%) VPN
6 3 (0.61%) FTP
6 3 (0.61%) Internet
6 3 (0.61%) SSL
6 3 (0.61%) VLAN
6 3 (0.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.47%) SQL Server
2 19 (3.85%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.24%) Oracle Database
4 13 (2.63%) NoSQL
5 12 (2.43%) Oracle Database 11g
6 10 (2.02%) Amazon Redshift
6 10 (2.02%) Relational Database
7 7 (1.42%) Apache Cassandra
7 7 (1.42%) MySQL
8 5 (1.01%) Couchbase
8 5 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.01%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.81%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.81%) Power BI
10 3 (0.61%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.40%) Big Data
11 2 (0.40%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.20%) Delta Lake
12 1 (0.20%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 78 (15.79%) Git
2 58 (11.74%) JIRA
2 58 (11.74%) Selenium
3 39 (7.89%) Jenkins
4 37 (7.49%) Postman
5 31 (6.28%) JUnit
6 30 (6.07%) Cucumber
7 22 (4.45%) WebDriver
8 19 (3.85%) GitLab
9 18 (3.64%) Appium
9 18 (3.64%) REST Assured
10 17 (3.44%) JMeter
11 16 (3.24%) Bitbucket
11 16 (3.24%) TestNG
12 15 (3.04%) Visual Studio
13 11 (2.23%) Cypress.io
13 11 (2.23%) SoapUI
14 10 (2.02%) eggPlant
14 10 (2.02%) SpecFlow
14 10 (2.02%) Subversion
General
1 171 (34.62%) Social Skills
2 69 (13.97%) Finance
3 54 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (7.49%) Electronics
5 31 (6.28%) Back Office
6 30 (6.07%) Public Sector
7 27 (5.47%) Banking
8 16 (3.24%) Telecoms
9 15 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (2.63%) Retail
11 12 (2.43%) Investment Banking
12 10 (2.02%) Automotive
13 9 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (1.42%) Aerospace
15 6 (1.21%) Front Office
15 6 (1.21%) Retail Banking
16 5 (1.01%) Legal
16 5 (1.01%) Military
17 4 (0.81%) Corporate Banking
17 4 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (17.61%) Developer
2 65 (13.16%) Analyst
3 63 (12.75%) Software Engineer
4 58 (11.74%) Senior
5 53 (10.73%) Test Engineer
6 44 (8.91%) Tester
7 39 (7.89%) Test Analyst
8 36 (7.29%) Lead
9 27 (5.47%) C++ Software Engineer
9 27 (5.47%) Test Manager
10 23 (4.66%) Software Developer
10 23 (4.66%) Storage Manager
11 20 (4.05%) Senior Analyst
12 18 (3.64%) Senior Test Analyst
13 16 (3.24%) Hardware Engineer
14 15 (3.04%) QA Engineer
15 13 (2.63%) SQL Developer
15 13 (2.63%) Test Automation Engineer
16 12 (2.43%) PostgreSQL Developer
17 10 (2.02%) Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 36 (7.29%) .NET
2 27 (5.47%) React
3 23 (4.66%) .NET Framework
3 23 (4.66%) RESTful
4 22 (4.45%) AngularJS
4 22 (4.45%) HTML
5 21 (4.25%) Web Services
6 20 (4.05%) Spring
7 18 (3.64%) REST
8 17 (3.44%) CSS
9 15 (3.04%) Node.js
9 15 (3.04%) Spring Boot
10 14 (2.83%) Redux
11 13 (2.63%) YAML
12 11 (2.23%) Gherkin
13 10 (2.02%) SOAP
13 10 (2.02%) XML
14 9 (1.82%) GraphQL
15 8 (1.62%) Middleware
16 7 (1.42%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.29%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.67%) Product Ownership
3 19 (3.85%) Mobile App
4 16 (3.24%) Algorithms
5 14 (2.83%) Data Centre
6 13 (2.63%) Driving Licence
7 9 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (1.82%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.62%) Life Science
9 7 (1.42%) Data Structures
9 7 (1.42%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.42%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.21%) Replication
11 5 (1.01%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.01%) Clustering
11 5 (1.01%) FPGA
11 5 (1.01%) NHS
12 4 (0.81%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.61%) Linux Command Line
13 3 (0.61%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 48 (9.72%) Linux
2 43 (8.70%) Windows
3 25 (5.06%) Unix
4 23 (4.66%) Android
5 15 (3.04%) Windows 10
5 15 (3.04%) zOS
6 13 (2.63%) Windows 7
7 10 (2.02%) Apple iOS
8 4 (0.81%) Embedded Linux
9 3 (0.61%) Windows Server
10 2 (0.40%) Mac OS
11 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.20%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (52.83%) Agile
2 183 (37.04%) Test Automation
3 139 (28.14%) Software Engineering
4 137 (27.73%) DevOps
5 107 (21.66%) Continuous Integration
6 82 (16.60%) Unit Testing
7 80 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
7 80 (16.19%) Scrum
8 72 (14.57%) CI/CD
9 71 (14.37%) TDD
10 69 (13.97%) Test Strategy
11 62 (12.55%) Test Scripting
12 56 (11.34%) Continuous Improvement
13 53 (10.73%) Customer Requirements
14 44 (8.91%) SDLC
15 38 (7.69%) Computer Science
15 38 (7.69%) Manual Testing
15 38 (7.69%) Performance Testing
15 38 (7.69%) Project Management
15 38 (7.69%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 92 (18.62%) SQL
2 89 (18.02%) C#
3 86 (17.41%) Java
4 71 (14.37%) Python
5 54 (10.93%) C++
6 53 (10.73%) C
7 50 (10.12%) JavaScript
8 25 (5.06%) Bash
8 25 (5.06%) TypeScript
9 20 (4.05%) PL/SQL
10 17 (3.44%) Kotlin
11 16 (3.24%) PowerShell
12 14 (2.83%) JCL
13 10 (2.02%) Go
13 10 (2.02%) REXX
13 10 (2.02%) Ruby
14 7 (1.42%) Bourne shell
14 7 (1.42%) Korn
14 7 (1.42%) MATLAB
14 7 (1.42%) Swift
Qualifications
1 97 (19.64%) Security Cleared
2 85 (17.21%) Degree
3 71 (14.37%) SC Cleared
4 43 (8.70%) ISTQB
5 32 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
6 19 (3.85%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.02%) ISEB
9 7 (1.42%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.61%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.61%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.20%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.20%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.20%) GIAC
12 1 (0.20%) PhD
12 1 (0.20%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.20%) PMP
12 1 (0.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.20%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (14.78%) QA
2 9 (1.82%) Accessibility
3 8 (1.62%) MISRA
3 8 (1.62%) MISRA C
4 6 (1.21%) HL7
4 6 (1.21%) PCI DSS
5 5 (1.01%) AUTOSAR
5 5 (1.01%) ISO 26262
6 4 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
6 4 (0.81%) WCAG
7 2 (0.40%) SLA
8 1 (0.20%) COBIT
8 1 (0.20%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.20%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.20%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 21 (4.25%) Docker
2 17 (3.44%) Firmware
3 14 (2.83%) NFS
3 14 (2.83%) Time Sharing Option
4 7 (1.42%) Active Directory
4 7 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (0.81%) VirtualBox
6 2 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (5.06%) Ansible
2 24 (4.86%) Kubernetes
2 24 (4.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 18 (3.64%) SCCM
4 14 (2.83%) Terraform
5 4 (0.81%) Puppet
6 3 (0.61%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.40%) Grafana
7 2 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.40%) Kibana
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.40%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.40%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.40%) Rancher
8 1 (0.20%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.20%) Iperf
8 1 (0.20%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 58 (11.74%) Oracle
3 31 (6.28%) IBM
4 21 (4.25%) HP
5 19 (3.85%) Broadcom
5 19 (3.85%) Dell
6 14 (2.83%) Brocade
6 14 (2.83%) CA
7 9 (1.82%) Google
8 7 (1.42%) Adobe
9 6 (1.21%) Atlassian
9 6 (1.21%) OpenLink
10 5 (1.01%) Red Hat
10 5 (1.01%) SAP
10 5 (1.01%) Siemens
10 5 (1.01%) Splunk
10 5 (1.01%) Xilinx
11 4 (0.81%) Optimizely
11 4 (0.81%) VMware
12 3 (0.61%) Ab Initio