System Testing Contracts in the North of England

System Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 168 210 229
Rank change year-on-year +42 +19 -53
Contract jobs citing System Testing 21 6 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.10% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.11% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 2 16
10th Percentile £426 - £139
25th Percentile - £475 £295
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +15.61% +19.31%
75th Percentile - £525 £500
90th Percentile £575 - £563
England median daily rate £500 £525 £504
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.22% +18.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,038 5,267 6,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.77% 90.70% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,470 3,658 4,648
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 358 207 255
10th Percentile £11.05 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.22 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.30 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.52% +58.38% +2.13%
75th Percentile £44.74 £47.25 £30.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.24
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North West +38 13 £500 - 5
Yorkshire +24 8 £525 +5.00% 2
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Business Applications
1 11 (52.38%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (4.76%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 12 (57.14%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (14.29%) Apigee
2 3 (14.29%) AWS
3 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) gulp
1 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 3 (14.29%) JUnit
1 3 (14.29%) Maven
2 1 (4.76%) Postman
2 1 (4.76%) REST Assured
2 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (52.38%) Marketing
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) General Ledger
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Consultant
2 12 (57.14%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 3 (14.29%) Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Designer
4 2 (9.52%) Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Business Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Financial Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) SAP EWM Consultant
5 1 (4.76%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Tester
5 1 (4.76%) Testing Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) .NET
1 3 (14.29%) Gherkin
1 3 (14.29%) Node.js
1 3 (14.29%) OAuth
1 3 (14.29%) OpenID
1 3 (14.29%) RESTful
1 3 (14.29%) SAML
2 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 11 (52.38%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
3 3 (14.29%) Product Ownership
4 2 (9.52%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) IoT
5 1 (4.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Android
1 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 13 (61.90%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 11 (52.38%) CRM
4 11 (52.38%) Customer Experience
4 11 (52.38%) Customer Insight
4 11 (52.38%) Data Migration
4 11 (52.38%) Migration
4 11 (52.38%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (19.05%) Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) API Testing
5 4 (19.05%) Software Testing
6 3 (14.29%) Agile
6 3 (14.29%) Configuration Management
6 3 (14.29%) Kanban
6 3 (14.29%) Scrum
6 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
6 3 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 3 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 3 (14.29%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
2 1 (4.76%) IFRS
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (14.29%) Google
2 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Cognizant
3 1 (4.76%) SAP