The first table below looks at the demand for the Systems Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Systems Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Tester
Rank 372 406 420
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Systems Tester 5 9 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.023% 0.033% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.036% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 14
Average daily rate £338 £300 £368
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -18.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £270 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £403 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £225 £310
% change year-on-year
+39.84% -27.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.56 £13.70 £19.00
% change year-on-year
+115.72% -27.89%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
19942 24907 28750
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.08% 92.46% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 13399 16045 18461
Average daily rate £450 £445 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.12% -6.31%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 450 624 677
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Systems Tester
England

Systems Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Systems Tester across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Systems Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Systems Tester
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Systems Tester across the London region.

London Systems Tester Daily Rate Trend

Systems Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Systems Tester across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Systems Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Systems Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Systems Tester across the London region.

London Systems Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Systems Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Systems Tester within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +15 1 £175 -41.66%
Docklands, London - 1 £500 -
Brentford - 1 - -
Systems Tester
England

Systems Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Systems Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Systems Tester in their job title.

1 10 (55.56%) Test Scripting
2 9 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
4 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Migration
4 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Sun
5 3 (16.67%) Banking
5 3 (16.67%) Manual Testing
5 3 (16.67%) System Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
6 2 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (11.11%) ATDD
6 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
6 2 (11.11%) Automated Testing
6 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
6 2 (11.11%) JSON
6 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
6 2 (11.11%) QA
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
6 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.11%) TDD
6 2 (11.11%) Games

Systems Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited Systems Tester in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Systems Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) JSON
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
1 2 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (5.556%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) MQSeries
1 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
1 1 (5.556%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.556%) Servitor
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.556%) JIRA
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) General Ledger
3 3 (16.67%) Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Investment Banking
4 2 (11.11%) Games
5 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.11%) iDTV
1 2 (11.11%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.556%) Equities
2 1 (5.556%) Derivative
2 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Test Scripting
2 6 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (22.22%) Data Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Migration
3 4 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 3 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 3 (16.67%) System Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
5 2 (11.11%) BDD
5 2 (11.11%) ATDD
5 2 (11.11%) Automated Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Load Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Security Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (11.11%) TDD
5 2 (11.11%) CRM
6 1 (5.556%) Data Analysis
6 1 (5.556%) Electronic Trading
6 1 (5.556%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (5.556%) Java
2 1 (5.556%) Perl
2 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 2 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.556%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Sun
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.556%) IBM
3 1 (5.556%) Siebel
3 1 (5.556%) HP
3 1 (5.556%) Civica