Software Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 159 157 152
Rank change year-on-year -2 -5 -24
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 284 361 544
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.34% 1.59% 1.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.61% 1.78% 2.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 223 357
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 60 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% +14.74%
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% +10.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,592 20,238 27,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.79% 89.10% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,357 13,876 18,979
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 £586
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 2,189 1,255 1,329
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.68 £12.48
25th Percentile £15.46 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.25 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.97 £74.92 £63.05
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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +7 83 £425 +6.25% 91
North of England +36 74 £450 +9.09% 59
Yorkshire +36 42 £450 -5.26% 16
East of England -2 41 £625 +38.89% 44
Midlands +20 34 £488 +30.00% 65
North West -6 30 £413 +4.43% 37
West Midlands +23 26 £475 +18.75% 32
South West -13 25 £550 - 53
Scotland -16 14 £461 -3.05% 30
Northern Ireland +10 10 £575 - 6
East Midlands +8 8 £500 +33.33% 33
North East +12 2 £368 -5.16% 7
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Wales +17 1 £210 -73.75% 6
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 (2.82%) 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 (5.28%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.46%) Simulink
3 5 (1.76%) Stateflow
3 5 (1.76%) TargetLink
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.41%) Misys Midas
2 1 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.35%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 43 (15.14%) Azure
2 33 (11.62%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (7.75%) AWS
4 21 (7.39%) GitHub
5 5 (1.76%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (1.76%) SaaS
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.41%) Amazon S3
6 4 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.41%) Serverless
6 4 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (1.06%) OpenShift
7 3 (1.06%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.06%) SAP Fieldglass
8 2 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (0.70%) IaaS
8 2 (0.70%) PaaS
8 2 (0.70%) Slack
9 1 (0.35%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 33 (11.62%) Modbus
1 33 (11.62%) RS-422
1 33 (11.62%) RS-485
2 12 (4.23%) LAN
3 8 (2.82%) Internet
4 5 (1.76%) SNMP
4 5 (1.76%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.41%) 5G
5 4 (1.41%) Software-Defined Radio
6 3 (1.06%) 4G
6 3 (1.06%) HTTP
6 3 (1.06%) SSL
6 3 (1.06%) VPN
7 2 (0.70%) IPv4
7 2 (0.70%) Network Security
7 2 (0.70%) OSPF
7 2 (0.70%) Remote Desktop
7 2 (0.70%) VLAN
7 2 (0.70%) VoIP
7 2 (0.70%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.63%) PostgreSQL
2 15 (5.28%) Oracle Database
3 11 (3.87%) Oracle Database 11g
3 11 (3.87%) SQL Server
4 5 (1.76%) MySQL
4 5 (1.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (1.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 4 (1.41%) Apache Cassandra
5 4 (1.41%) Couchbase
5 4 (1.41%) NoSQL
6 3 (1.06%) MariaDB
6 3 (1.06%) Relational Database
7 2 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.35%) Apache Hive
8 1 (0.35%) Big Data
8 1 (0.35%) Data Lake
8 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.35%) InfluxDB
8 1 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.35%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 45 (15.85%) Git
2 34 (11.97%) JIRA
3 25 (8.80%) Jenkins
4 22 (7.75%) Selenium
5 14 (4.93%) Bitbucket
5 14 (4.93%) JUnit
6 10 (3.52%) Subversion
7 9 (3.17%) Cucumber
7 9 (3.17%) JMeter
8 8 (2.82%) GitLab
8 8 (2.82%) Maven
9 7 (2.46%) Rational DOORS
9 7 (2.46%) Visual Studio
10 6 (2.11%) Postman
10 6 (2.11%) Team Foundation Server
11 5 (1.76%) Artifactory
11 5 (1.76%) TeamCity
11 5 (1.76%) WebDriver
12 4 (1.41%) Robot Framework
12 4 (1.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 92 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 35 (12.32%) Electronics
3 26 (9.15%) Finance
4 18 (6.34%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.28%) Analytical Skills
6 14 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
7 11 (3.87%) Telecoms
8 9 (3.17%) Automotive
9 8 (2.82%) Aerospace
10 6 (2.11%) Military
11 5 (1.76%) Italian Language
12 4 (1.41%) Banking
13 3 (1.06%) 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%) Law
15 1 (0.35%) Marketing
15 1 (0.35%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 55 (19.37%) Developer
2 46 (16.20%) Software Engineer
3 37 (13.03%) Test Engineer
4 29 (10.21%) Analyst
5 26 (9.15%) C++ Software Engineer
6 21 (7.39%) Test Manager
7 20 (7.04%) Tester
8 15 (5.28%) Hardware Engineer
8 15 (5.28%) Test Analyst
9 14 (4.93%) Software Developer
10 12 (4.23%) Senior
10 12 (4.23%) SQL Developer
10 12 (4.23%) Storage Manager
11 11 (3.87%) Java Developer
11 11 (3.87%) PostgreSQL Developer
12 9 (3.17%) Software Test Engineer
12 9 (3.17%) Systems Engineer
13 8 (2.82%) Lead
13 8 (2.82%) Software Tester
14 6 (2.11%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (6.34%) Spring Boot
2 17 (5.99%) Spring
3 15 (5.28%) Gherkin
4 14 (4.93%) RESTful
5 13 (4.58%) Web Services
6 12 (4.23%) REST
7 8 (2.82%) YAML
8 7 (2.46%) .NET
8 7 (2.46%) CSS
8 7 (2.46%) HTML
8 7 (2.46%) Java EE
9 6 (2.11%) XML
10 5 (1.76%) AngularJS
10 5 (1.76%) React
11 4 (1.41%) Node.js
11 4 (1.41%) SOAP
12 3 (1.06%) JDBC
12 3 (1.06%) JSON
12 3 (1.06%) Software Packaging
12 3 (1.06%) WebSockets
Miscellaneous
1 30 (10.56%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (4.93%) Product Ownership
3 12 (4.23%) Driving Licence
4 8 (2.82%) Algorithms
4 8 (2.82%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.11%) Life Science
6 5 (1.76%) Data Centre
6 5 (1.76%) FPGA
6 5 (1.76%) NHS
6 5 (1.76%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.41%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.06%) ASIC
8 3 (1.06%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
8 3 (1.06%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.06%) 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 38 (13.38%) Linux
2 31 (10.92%) Windows
3 18 (6.34%) Unix
4 12 (4.23%) Windows 10
4 12 (4.23%) Windows 7
5 7 (2.46%) zOS
6 4 (1.41%) Embedded Linux
7 3 (1.06%) 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
1 138 (48.59%) Agile
2 101 (35.56%) DevOps
3 83 (29.23%) Test Automation
4 80 (28.17%) Software Engineering
5 68 (23.94%) Unit Testing
6 56 (19.72%) Continuous Integration
7 51 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
8 49 (17.25%) Customer Requirements
9 44 (15.49%) TDD
9 44 (15.49%) Test Scripting
10 43 (15.14%) Scrum
11 42 (14.79%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (12.32%) Pair Programming
13 33 (11.62%) Test Strategy
14 28 (9.86%) System Testing
15 26 (9.15%) Validation
16 25 (8.80%) Project Management
17 24 (8.45%) CI/CD
18 22 (7.75%) Computer Science
18 22 (7.75%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 55 (19.37%) Java
2 54 (19.01%) SQL
3 53 (18.66%) C++
4 48 (16.90%) C
5 46 (16.20%) C#
6 30 (10.56%) Python
7 19 (6.69%) Bash
7 19 (6.69%) JavaScript
7 19 (6.69%) PL/SQL
8 7 (2.46%) Bourne shell
8 7 (2.46%) JCL
8 7 (2.46%) Korn
8 7 (2.46%) MATLAB
9 6 (2.11%) PowerShell
9 6 (2.11%) Shell Script
10 5 (1.76%) REXX
11 4 (1.41%) Assembly Language
12 3 (1.06%) Go
12 3 (1.06%) SystemVerilog
12 3 (1.06%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 74 (26.06%) Security Cleared
2 55 (19.37%) Degree
3 45 (15.85%) SC Cleared
4 29 (10.21%) ISTQB
5 24 (8.45%) DV Cleared
6 15 (5.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 11 (3.87%) ISEB
8 9 (3.17%) BPSS Clearance
9 6 (2.11%) Master's Degree
10 3 (1.06%) 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 (13.03%) QA
2 9 (3.17%) MISRA
2 9 (3.17%) MISRA C
3 6 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 5 (1.76%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (1.76%) HL7
4 5 (1.76%) ISO 26262
5 4 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (1.06%) 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 (5.63%) Firmware
2 10 (3.52%) Docker
3 7 (2.46%) NFS
3 7 (2.46%) Time Sharing Option
3 7 (2.46%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.41%) VirtualBox
5 1 (0.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (4.93%) Ansible
2 13 (4.58%) Kubernetes
2 13 (4.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 12 (4.23%) SCCM
4 9 (3.17%) Terraform
5 3 (1.06%) 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 (14.08%) Oracle
2 36 (12.68%) Microsoft
3 14 (4.93%) HP
4 13 (4.58%) IBM
5 8 (2.82%) Broadcom
5 8 (2.82%) Dell
6 7 (2.46%) Atlassian
6 7 (2.46%) Brocade
6 7 (2.46%) CA
7 5 (1.76%) Google
7 5 (1.76%) Red Hat
7 5 (1.76%) Xilinx
8 3 (1.06%) Cadence
8 3 (1.06%) Synopsys
9 2 (0.70%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.70%) Siemens
9 2 (0.70%) VMware
10 1 (0.35%) Adobe
10 1 (0.35%) Cisco
10 1 (0.35%) Salesforce