System Testing Contracts in London

System Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 356 413 501
Rank change year-on-year +57 +88 -85
Contract jobs citing System Testing 35 85 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.31% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.35% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 71 67
10th Percentile £358 £313 £423
25th Percentile £375 £444 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.67% -2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £529 £697 £701
90th Percentile £582 £813 £838
England median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

System 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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,787 24,631 35,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.49% 91.12% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,315 17,709 26,172
10th Percentile £338 £375 £390
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 325 278 427
10th Percentile £16.00 £18.59 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.53 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.50 £38.13 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.25% +5.90% +10.87%
75th Percentile £46.86 £62.64 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.30 £76.78 £67.75
England median hourly rate £35.83 £37.50 £24.48
% change year-on-year -4.45% +53.20% +1.99%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in London.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in London.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the London region over the 6 months to 29 April 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
Central London +25 3 £425 -8.85% 3
South London - 2 £425 - 1
East London -4 1 £435 -20.91%
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 2 (5.71%) CICS
1 2 (5.71%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Loan IQ
1 2 (5.71%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.86%) SAP LE
2 1 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 1 (2.86%) thinkFolio
2 1 (2.86%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.29%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (5.71%) Power Platform
3 2 (5.71%) PowerApps
3 2 (5.71%) WhatsApp
4 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.86%) Boomi
4 1 (2.86%) OCI
4 1 (2.86%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) DNS
1 1 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.29%) Relational Database
2 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
3 2 (5.71%) DB2
3 2 (5.71%) IDMS
3 2 (5.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (14.29%) JIRA
1 5 (14.29%) Selenium
2 2 (5.71%) SpecFlow
2 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.86%) Appium
3 1 (2.86%) ClearCase
3 1 (2.86%) ClearQuest
3 1 (2.86%) Gerrit
3 1 (2.86%) Git
3 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) JMeter
3 1 (2.86%) JUnit
3 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
3 1 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (2.86%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (2.86%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (2.86%) TestNG
3 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 13 (37.14%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (31.43%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Back Office
5 3 (8.57%) Front Office
5 3 (8.57%) Manufacturing
5 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.71%) General Ledger
6 2 (5.71%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Electronics
7 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Law
7 1 (2.86%) Marketing
7 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 12 (34.29%) Analyst
2 7 (20.00%) Tester
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Applications Support
5 3 (8.57%) Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Lead
6 2 (5.71%) Mainframe Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Murex Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Project Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
6 2 (5.71%) Technical Tester
6 2 (5.71%) Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) JSON
1 4 (11.43%) XML
2 3 (8.57%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.86%) Playwright
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) pytest
3 1 (2.86%) RESTful
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (5.71%) CCTV
2 2 (5.71%) Data Structures
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Mainframe
2 2 (5.71%) VSAM
3 1 (2.86%) Derivative
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Equities
3 1 (2.86%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Unix
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (37.14%) Migration
2 13 (37.14%) Test Automation
3 12 (34.29%) Agile
4 11 (31.43%) Integration Testing
5 9 (25.71%) End-to-End Testing
5 9 (25.71%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (20.00%) Manual Testing
7 6 (17.14%) Scrum
8 5 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 5 (14.29%) Test Strategy
9 4 (11.43%) CI/CD
9 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
9 4 (11.43%) Data Management
9 4 (11.43%) Performance Analysis
9 4 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
9 4 (11.43%) Test Management
9 4 (11.43%) Validation
10 3 (8.57%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (14.29%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
4 3 (8.57%) Python
5 2 (5.71%) Assembly Language
5 2 (5.71%) C#
5 2 (5.71%) COBOL
5 2 (5.71%) JCL
6 1 (2.86%) C
6 1 (2.86%) C++
6 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 3 (8.57%) Degree
3 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.86%) ISEB
4 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) ISO 15022
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.86%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Control-M
1 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (14.29%) Oracle
3 4 (11.43%) SAP
4 3 (8.57%) IBM
5 2 (5.71%) HP
5 2 (5.71%) Murex
5 2 (5.71%) Panasonic
5 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.86%) Avaloq
6 1 (2.86%) Dell
6 1 (2.86%) Sparx
6 1 (2.86%) Workday