Software Testing Contracts in England

Software Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 185 191 183
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 0
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 477 657 1,126
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.27% 1.40% 1.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.49% 1.55% 1.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 443 736
10th Percentile £306 £307 £334
25th Percentile £375 £384 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.60% - +7.82%
75th Percentile £588 £650 £575
90th Percentile £675 £713 £650
UK median daily rate £465 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 63 68
10th Percentile £39.84 £42.50 £25.00
25th Percentile £56.25 £44.38 £42.50
Median hourly rate £62.50 £52.50 £54.89
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.35% +18.81%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.75 £60.00
90th Percentile - £74.63 £65.16
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £55.00 £54.50
% change year-on-year +13.64% +0.92% +18.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,030 42,283 63,775
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.40% 89.90% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,779 29,697 45,496
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £440 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £775 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,363 1,526 1,693
10th Percentile £12.79 £10.69 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.75 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.59 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.71 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -3 213 £475 -17.39% 64
South East +2 81 £425 +6.25% 83
North of England +18 70 £450 +9.09% 60
East of England -3 41 £625 +38.89% 37
Yorkshire +35 38 £450 -5.26% 17
Midlands +20 34 £488 +30.00% 61
North West -4 30 £413 +4.43% 34
West Midlands +24 26 £475 +18.75% 31
South West -17 25 £550 +4.76% 67
East Midlands +4 8 £500 +33.33% 30
North East +8 2 £368 -5.16% 10
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 16 (3.35%) Confluence
2 6 (1.26%) CMS
3 5 (1.05%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 4 (0.84%) Apache
4 4 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.63%) Apache Spark
5 3 (0.63%) Headless CMS
5 3 (0.63%) WebLogic
5 3 (0.63%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (0.21%) Appian
6 1 (0.21%) JBoss
6 1 (0.21%) Mendix
6 1 (0.21%) MTS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 22 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (1.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 7 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (1.47%) Simulink
4 5 (1.05%) Stateflow
4 5 (1.05%) TargetLink
5 3 (0.63%) Windchill
6 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.21%) MS Visio
6 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Endur
2 5 (1.05%) FLEXCUBE
3 4 (0.84%) Misys Midas
3 4 (0.84%) Oracle BPM
4 3 (0.63%) ENOVIA
4 3 (0.63%) Teamcenter
5 2 (0.42%) NetSuite
5 2 (0.42%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.21%) Magento
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Internet Expenses
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle iProcurement
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.21%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.21%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.21%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.21%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 71 (14.88%) Azure
2 59 (12.37%) AWS
3 44 (9.22%) Azure DevOps
4 17 (3.56%) GitHub
5 15 (3.14%) Serverless
6 12 (2.52%) AWS Lambda
7 10 (2.10%) SaaS
8 9 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
8 9 (1.89%) Amazon S3
9 7 (1.47%) Entra ID
9 7 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 6 (1.26%) BrowserStack
10 6 (1.26%) PaaS
11 5 (1.05%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
11 5 (1.05%) Power Platform
12 4 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
12 4 (0.84%) BlazeMeter
12 4 (0.84%) GCP
12 4 (0.84%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 33 (6.92%) Modbus
1 33 (6.92%) RS-422
1 33 (6.92%) RS-485
2 12 (2.52%) LAN
3 6 (1.26%) 5G
3 6 (1.26%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (1.05%) DHCP
4 5 (1.05%) DNS
4 5 (1.05%) HTTP
4 5 (1.05%) SNMP
4 5 (1.05%) TCP/IP
5 4 (0.84%) 4G
5 4 (0.84%) Firewall
5 4 (0.84%) Internet
5 4 (0.84%) SMS
5 4 (0.84%) Software-Defined Radio
5 4 (0.84%) VPN
5 4 (0.84%) Wireless
6 3 (0.63%) SSL
6 3 (0.63%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (5.66%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.56%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (3.35%) Oracle Database
4 12 (2.52%) NoSQL
5 11 (2.31%) Oracle Database 11g
5 11 (2.31%) Relational Database
6 10 (2.10%) Amazon Redshift
7 6 (1.26%) Apache Cassandra
7 6 (1.26%) MySQL
8 5 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
8 5 (1.05%) MongoDB
8 5 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 4 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.84%) Couchbase
9 4 (0.84%) Power BI
10 3 (0.63%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.42%) Big Data
11 2 (0.42%) DynamoDB
12 1 (0.21%) Apache Hive
12 1 (0.21%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 79 (16.56%) Git
2 62 (13.00%) Selenium
3 59 (12.37%) JIRA
4 38 (7.97%) Postman
5 34 (7.13%) JUnit
6 33 (6.92%) Cucumber
7 31 (6.50%) Jenkins
8 23 (4.82%) WebDriver
9 19 (3.98%) REST Assured
10 18 (3.77%) Appium
10 18 (3.77%) GitLab
11 17 (3.56%) JMeter
11 17 (3.56%) TestNG
12 15 (3.14%) Bitbucket
12 15 (3.14%) Visual Studio
13 12 (2.52%) Cypress.io
14 11 (2.31%) SoapUI
15 10 (2.10%) eggPlant
15 10 (2.10%) SpecFlow
15 10 (2.10%) Subversion
General
1 163 (34.17%) Social Skills
2 71 (14.88%) Finance
3 58 (12.16%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (7.34%) Electronics
5 31 (6.50%) Back Office
5 31 (6.50%) Public Sector
6 28 (5.87%) Banking
7 17 (3.56%) Telecoms
8 14 (2.94%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.73%) Investment Banking
9 13 (2.73%) Retail
10 10 (2.10%) Automotive
11 9 (1.89%) Aerospace
11 9 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.26%) Front Office
12 6 (1.26%) Military
12 6 (1.26%) Retail Banking
13 5 (1.05%) Legal
14 4 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.84%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 85 (17.82%) Developer
2 68 (14.26%) Analyst
3 62 (13.00%) Software Engineer
4 56 (11.74%) Senior
5 52 (10.90%) Test Engineer
6 42 (8.81%) Tester
7 41 (8.60%) Test Analyst
8 36 (7.55%) Lead
9 26 (5.45%) C++ Software Engineer
9 26 (5.45%) Test Manager
10 22 (4.61%) Senior Analyst
11 21 (4.40%) Software Developer
12 19 (3.98%) Senior Test Analyst
13 17 (3.56%) QA Engineer
14 15 (3.14%) Hardware Engineer
15 12 (2.52%) Automation Engineer
15 12 (2.52%) SQL Developer
15 12 (2.52%) Storage Manager
15 12 (2.52%) Test Automation Engineer
16 11 (2.31%) PostgreSQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (7.34%) .NET
2 25 (5.24%) React
3 23 (4.82%) .NET Framework
3 23 (4.82%) RESTful
3 23 (4.82%) Web Services
4 22 (4.61%) AngularJS
4 22 (4.61%) HTML
5 20 (4.19%) Spring
6 19 (3.98%) REST
7 17 (3.56%) CSS
8 15 (3.14%) Node.js
8 15 (3.14%) Spring Boot
9 14 (2.94%) Redux
10 13 (2.73%) Gherkin
11 11 (2.31%) XML
12 10 (2.10%) SOAP
13 9 (1.89%) GraphQL
14 8 (1.68%) ADO
14 8 (1.68%) Middleware
15 7 (1.47%) Java EE
Miscellaneous
1 36 (7.55%) Self-Motivation
2 28 (5.87%) Product Ownership
3 18 (3.77%) Mobile App
4 15 (3.14%) Algorithms
5 12 (2.52%) Driving Licence
6 10 (2.10%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (1.68%) Life Science
9 7 (1.47%) Data Centre
9 7 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
9 7 (1.47%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.26%) Data Structures
10 6 (1.26%) Replication
11 5 (1.05%) Client/Server
11 5 (1.05%) Clustering
11 5 (1.05%) FPGA
11 5 (1.05%) NHS
12 4 (0.84%) Embedded Systems
12 4 (0.84%) Virtual Team
13 3 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 42 (8.81%) Windows
2 40 (8.39%) Linux
3 21 (4.40%) Android
3 21 (4.40%) Unix
4 14 (2.94%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.52%) Windows 7
6 10 (2.10%) Apple iOS
7 4 (0.84%) Embedded Linux
7 4 (0.84%) zOS
8 3 (0.63%) Windows Server
9 2 (0.42%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.21%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 251 (52.62%) Agile
2 189 (39.62%) Test Automation
3 135 (28.30%) Software Engineering
4 134 (28.09%) DevOps
5 110 (23.06%) Continuous Integration
6 85 (17.82%) Problem-Solving
7 81 (16.98%) Scrum
7 81 (16.98%) Unit Testing
8 75 (15.72%) CI/CD
9 71 (14.88%) TDD
10 68 (14.26%) Test Strategy
11 67 (14.05%) Test Scripting
12 57 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
13 52 (10.90%) Customer Requirements
14 42 (8.81%) SDLC
15 40 (8.39%) Computer Science
15 40 (8.39%) Performance Testing
16 38 (7.97%) Pair Programming
16 38 (7.97%) User Stories
17 36 (7.55%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 90 (18.87%) Java
2 88 (18.45%) SQL
3 86 (18.03%) C#
4 65 (13.63%) Python
5 54 (11.32%) C
5 54 (11.32%) C++
6 48 (10.06%) JavaScript
7 25 (5.24%) Bash
8 24 (5.03%) TypeScript
9 20 (4.19%) PL/SQL
10 16 (3.35%) Kotlin
10 16 (3.35%) PowerShell
11 11 (2.31%) Ruby
12 9 (1.89%) Go
13 7 (1.47%) Bourne shell
13 7 (1.47%) Korn
13 7 (1.47%) MATLAB
13 7 (1.47%) Swift
14 5 (1.05%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.84%) JCL
Qualifications
1 94 (19.71%) Security Cleared
2 86 (18.03%) Degree
3 69 (14.47%) SC Cleared
4 40 (8.39%) ISTQB
5 34 (7.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 18 (3.77%) DV Cleared
7 11 (2.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (2.10%) ISEB
9 7 (1.47%) Master's Degree
10 6 (1.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 3 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 3 (0.63%) Numerate Degree
12 1 (0.21%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.21%) Chartered Engineer
12 1 (0.21%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.21%) GIAC
12 1 (0.21%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.21%) PMP
12 1 (0.21%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 1 (0.21%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (15.30%) QA
2 9 (1.89%) Accessibility
2 9 (1.89%) MISRA
2 9 (1.89%) MISRA C
3 6 (1.26%) HL7
3 6 (1.26%) PCI DSS
4 5 (1.05%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.05%) ISO 26262
5 4 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
5 4 (0.84%) WCAG
6 2 (0.42%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.42%) SLA
7 1 (0.21%) COBIT
7 1 (0.21%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.21%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
System Software
1 20 (4.19%) Docker
2 16 (3.35%) Firmware
3 7 (1.47%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.47%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (0.84%) NFS
4 4 (0.84%) Time Sharing Option
4 4 (0.84%) VirtualBox
5 2 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (4.82%) Kubernetes
2 17 (3.56%) Ansible
2 17 (3.56%) SCCM
3 14 (2.94%) Terraform
4 12 (2.52%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 4 (0.84%) Puppet
6 3 (0.63%) HP ALM
7 2 (0.42%) Grafana
7 2 (0.42%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.42%) Kibana
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Clustering
7 2 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.42%) Opsgenie
7 2 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.42%) Rancher
8 1 (0.21%) HP Quality Center
8 1 (0.21%) Iperf
8 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 73 (15.30%) Microsoft
2 55 (11.53%) Oracle
3 20 (4.19%) HP
4 19 (3.98%) IBM
5 9 (1.89%) Google
6 7 (1.47%) Adobe
6 7 (1.47%) Broadcom
6 7 (1.47%) Dell
7 6 (1.26%) Atlassian
7 6 (1.26%) OpenLink
8 5 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 5 (1.05%) Siemens
8 5 (1.05%) Splunk
8 5 (1.05%) Xilinx
9 4 (0.84%) Brocade
9 4 (0.84%) CA
9 4 (0.84%) Optimizely
9 4 (0.84%) SAP
9 4 (0.84%) VMware
10 3 (0.63%) Cadence