NelsonHall publishes Software Testing market analysis

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NelsonHall has recently published its latest Software Testing market analysis, and there are some surprises.

The software testing market has rebounded very strongly after the exit of the 2009 crisis. The scale of the rebound has been unexpected: NelsonHall estimates altogether that the number of software testing specialists i.e. career tests, has grown by 65% in two years, rising to ~170,000 career testers across the world. This growth level is rare in the IT services industry, if not unprecedented.

The report has been constructed following the usual NelsonHall market analysis methodology, multiple in depth vendor interviews with the markets leading protagonists including, Accenture, Amdocs, Atos, Capgemini/Sogeti, Capita Assurance and Testing, CAST Software, Chakkilam Infotech/Cigniti, Cognizant, CSC (including AppLabs), Experimentus, HCL Technologies, HP Enterprise Services, HP Software, IBM Global Services, IBM Rational, Infosys, iGATE/Patni, ITC Infotech, L&T Infotech, Logica, Mahindra Satyam/Tech Mahindra, Maveric Systems, MindTree, MTP, QA Infotech, Smartesting, Sopra, SQS, Steria, TCS, Tieto and Wipro.

The report consists of 89 pages, consists of 9 chapters and 26 data charts and was conducted by NelsonHall's IT Outsourcing research director, Dominique Raviart. If you'd like to find out more about the report and NelsonHall's findings please contact Rob Hughes.

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The scale of the rebound has been unexpected: NelsonHall estimates altogether that the number of software testing specialists i.e. career tests, has grown by 65% in two years, rising to ~170,000 career testers across the world. This growth level is rare in the IT services industry, if not unprecedented.
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