Software Testing Contracts in the North East

Software Testing
England > North East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 35 47 45
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 -2
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 2 3 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 0.62% 0.86% 2.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.96% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 11
10th Percentile £334 £366 £313
25th Percentile £346 £372 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £388 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.16% -22.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £389 £397 £638
90th Percentile £402 £399 -
England median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +8.11%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 263 311 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 80.92% 89.37% 87.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 239 334
10th Percentile £272 £247 £190
25th Percentile £363 £394 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.50%
75th Percentile £590 £613 £600
90th Percentile £650 £704 £660
England median daily rate £525 £550 £548
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.46% +9.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 2 15
10th Percentile £11.45 £32.74 £10.60
25th Percentile £12.13 £34.98 £12.91
Median hourly rate £19.50 £39.34 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -50.43% +138.42% +26.92%
75th Percentile £48.75 £43.07 £18.13
90th Percentile £68.75 £44.94 £33.75
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year +4.17% +41.18% +13.33%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the North East

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the North East

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the North East

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Tyne and Wear +11 2 £368 -8.13% 6
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) Kanban
1 2 (100.00%) Load Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SFIA
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA