Software Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 151 155 150
Rank change year-on-year +4 -5 -28
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 286 361 549
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.36% 1.59% 1.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.64% 1.78% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 223 359
10th Percentile £205 £261 £313
25th Percentile £375 £363 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -10.53% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £530 £550
90th Percentile £638 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 53 67
10th Percentile £26.88 - £17.70
25th Percentile £56.25 £42.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £54.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -3.67% +17.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile - £70.94 £62.00
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £51.12
% change year-on-year +13.64% +7.59% +11.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,473 20,238 27,294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.84% 89.10% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,285 13,877 19,070
10th Percentile £250 £260 £245
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £585
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,170 1,255 1,342
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.40 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.54 £74.92 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Software Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Software Testing in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East +3 83 £425 +6.25% 91
North of England +33 75 £450 +9.09% 60
Yorkshire +37 43 £450 -5.26% 17
East of England -5 42 £625 +38.89% 44
Midlands +25 34 £488 +30.00% 69
North West -6 30 £413 +4.43% 37
West Midlands +19 26 £475 +18.75% 31
South West -4 25 £550 - 48
Scotland -16 14 £461 -3.05% 30
Northern Ireland +10 10 £575 - 6
East Midlands +9 8 £500 +33.33% 38
North East +12 2 £368 -5.16% 7
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Wales +16 1 £210 -73.75% 5
Software Testing
UK

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 8 (2.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.70%) Apache
2 2 (0.70%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.35%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.35%) Appian
3 1 (0.35%) JBoss
3 1 (0.35%) MTS
3 1 (0.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (5.24%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.45%) Simulink
3 5 (1.75%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.75%) TargetLink
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.03%) Azure
2 33 (11.54%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (7.69%) AWS
3 22 (7.69%) GitHub
4 5 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (1.75%) SaaS
5 4 (1.40%) Amazon EC2
5 4 (1.40%) Amazon S3
5 4 (1.40%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (1.40%) Serverless
5 4 (1.40%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (1.05%) OpenShift
6 3 (1.05%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.05%) SAP Fieldglass
7 2 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.70%) IaaS
7 2 (0.70%) PaaS
7 2 (0.70%) Slack
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 34 (11.89%) Modbus
1 34 (11.89%) RS-422
1 34 (11.89%) RS-485
2 12 (4.20%) LAN
3 8 (2.80%) Internet
4 5 (1.75%) SNMP
4 5 (1.75%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.40%) 5G
5 4 (1.40%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (1.05%) 4G
6 3 (1.05%) HTTP
6 3 (1.05%) SSL
6 3 (1.05%) VPN
7 2 (0.70%) IPv4
7 2 (0.70%) Network Security
7 2 (0.70%) OSPF
7 2 (0.70%) Tactical Data Link
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
7 2 (0.70%) VoIP
7 2 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.59%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.24%) Oracle Database
3 11 (3.85%) Oracle Database 11g
3 11 (3.85%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.75%) MySQL
4 5 (1.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.40%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.40%) Couchbase
5 4 (1.40%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.05%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.05%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Delta Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.35%) Metadata
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (15.73%) Git
2 34 (11.89%) JIRA
3 26 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.69%) Selenium
5 14 (4.90%) Bitbucket
6 13 (4.55%) JUnit
7 10 (3.50%) Subversion
8 9 (3.15%) JMeter
9 8 (2.80%) Cucumber
9 8 (2.80%) GitLab
9 8 (2.80%) Maven
10 7 (2.45%) Rational DOORS
10 7 (2.45%) Visual Studio
11 6 (2.10%) Postman
11 6 (2.10%) Team Foundation Server
12 5 (1.75%) Artifactory
12 5 (1.75%) TeamCity
12 5 (1.75%) WebDriver
13 4 (1.40%) Ant
13 4 (1.40%) Eclipse
General
1 93 (32.52%) Social Skills
2 36 (12.59%) Electronics
3 26 (9.09%) Finance
4 18 (6.29%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.24%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.15%) Automotive
9 8 (2.80%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.10%) Military
11 5 (1.75%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.40%) Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.70%) Games
14 2 (0.70%) German Language
14 2 (0.70%) Spanish Language
15 1 (0.35%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.35%) Marketing
15 1 (0.35%) Retail
15 1 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 55 (19.23%) Developer
2 47 (16.43%) Software Engineer
3 37 (12.94%) Test Engineer
4 29 (10.14%) Analyst
5 27 (9.44%) C++ Software Engineer
6 21 (7.34%) Test Manager
7 20 (6.99%) Tester
8 15 (5.24%) Hardware Engineer
8 15 (5.24%) Test Analyst
9 14 (4.90%) Software Developer
9 14 (4.90%) Storage Manager
10 12 (4.20%) Senior
10 12 (4.20%) SQL Developer
11 11 (3.85%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.85%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 9 (3.15%) Software Test Engineer
12 9 (3.15%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (2.80%) Lead
13 8 (2.80%) Software Tester
14 6 (2.10%) C/C++ Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.29%) Spring Boot
2 17 (5.94%) Spring
3 14 (4.90%) Gherkin
3 14 (4.90%) RESTful
4 13 (4.55%) Web Services
5 12 (4.20%) REST
6 9 (3.15%) YAML
7 7 (2.45%) .NET
7 7 (2.45%) CSS
7 7 (2.45%) HTML
7 7 (2.45%) Java EE
8 6 (2.10%) XML
9 5 (1.75%) AngularJS
9 5 (1.75%) React
10 4 (1.40%) Node.js
10 4 (1.40%) SOAP
11 3 (1.05%) JPA
11 3 (1.05%) JSON
11 3 (1.05%) Software Packaging
11 3 (1.05%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.49%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (4.90%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.20%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.80%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.80%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.10%) Data Centre
5 6 (2.10%) Life Science
6 5 (1.75%) FPGA
6 5 (1.75%) NHS
6 5 (1.75%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.40%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.05%) ASIC
8 3 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.05%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.05%) Verilog
9 2 (0.70%) Client/Server
9 2 (0.70%) Equities
9 2 (0.70%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.70%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.99%) Linux
2 31 (10.84%) Windows
3 18 (6.29%) Unix
4 12 (4.20%) Windows 10
4 12 (4.20%) Windows 7
5 9 (3.15%) zOS
6 4 (1.40%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.05%) Android
8 2 (0.70%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server
9 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.35%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (48.95%) Agile
2 102 (35.66%) DevOps
3 82 (28.67%) Test Automation
4 81 (28.32%) Software Engineering
5 68 (23.78%) Unit Testing
6 57 (19.93%) Continuous Integration
7 51 (17.83%) Problem-Solving
8 50 (17.48%) Customer Requirements
9 45 (15.73%) TDD
10 44 (15.38%) Scrum
11 43 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 43 (15.03%) Test Scripting
12 35 (12.24%) Pair Programming
13 33 (11.54%) Test Strategy
14 27 (9.44%) Project Management
14 27 (9.44%) System Testing
15 26 (9.09%) Validation
16 24 (8.39%) CI/CD
17 22 (7.69%) Computer Science
17 22 (7.69%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 54 (18.88%) C++
1 54 (18.88%) Java
1 54 (18.88%) SQL
2 49 (17.13%) C
3 47 (16.43%) C#
4 31 (10.84%) Python
5 19 (6.64%) Bash
5 19 (6.64%) JavaScript
5 19 (6.64%) PL/SQL
6 9 (3.15%) JCL
7 7 (2.45%) Bourne shell
7 7 (2.45%) Korn
7 7 (2.45%) MATLAB
8 6 (2.10%) PowerShell
8 6 (2.10%) REXX
8 6 (2.10%) Shell Script
9 4 (1.40%) Assembly Language
10 3 (1.05%) Go
10 3 (1.05%) SystemVerilog
10 3 (1.05%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 74 (25.87%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.23%) Degree
3 45 (15.73%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.14%) ISTQB
5 24 (8.39%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.85%) ISEB
8 9 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.10%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 2 (0.70%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.35%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.35%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.35%) GIAC
12 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.35%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (12.94%) QA
2 9 (3.15%) MISRA
2 9 (3.15%) MISRA C
3 6 (2.10%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.75%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.75%) HL7
4 5 (1.75%) ISO 26262
5 4 (1.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.05%) WCAG
7 2 (0.70%) Data Quality
7 2 (0.70%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.70%) PMO
8 1 (0.35%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.35%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (5.59%) Firmware
2 10 (3.50%) Docker
3 9 (3.15%) NFS
3 9 (3.15%) Time Sharing Option
4 7 (2.45%) Virtual Machines
5 4 (1.40%) VirtualBox
6 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (5.24%) Ansible
1 15 (5.24%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 13 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 12 (4.20%) SCCM
4 9 (3.15%) Terraform
5 3 (1.05%) Puppet
6 2 (0.70%) HP ALM
6 2 (0.70%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (0.70%) Kibana
7 1 (0.35%) Grafana
7 1 (0.35%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.35%) Rancher
Vendors
1 40 (13.99%) Oracle
2 36 (12.59%) Microsoft
3 15 (5.24%) IBM
4 14 (4.90%) HP
5 10 (3.50%) Broadcom
5 10 (3.50%) Dell
6 9 (3.15%) Brocade
6 9 (3.15%) CA
7 7 (2.45%) Atlassian
8 5 (1.75%) Google
8 5 (1.75%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.75%) Xilinx
9 3 (1.05%) Cadence
9 3 (1.05%) Synopsys
10 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.70%) Siemens
10 2 (0.70%) VMware
11 1 (0.35%) Adobe
11 1 (0.35%) Salesforce
11 1 (0.35%) SAP