System Testing Contracts in Shropshire

System Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Shropshire 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 50 86
Rank change year-on-year +28 +36 -25
Contract jobs citing System Testing 8 5 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Shropshire 5.76% 3.13% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% 3.36% 1.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - £242 -
25th Percentile £500 £305 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £420 £383
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% +9.66% -7.99%
75th Percentile - £434 £419
90th Percentile - £436 £447
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £385 £382
% change year-on-year +29.87% +0.92% -10.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 88 149 632
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 63.31% 93.13% 98.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 118 454
10th Percentile £260 £407 £383
25th Percentile £324 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £359 £538 £505
Median % change year-on-year -33.27% +6.53% +24.69%
75th Percentile £469 £540 £575
90th Percentile £511 £595 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £488
% change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +14.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £10.42 £55.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -81.05% +214.29% +34.62%
75th Percentile £11.32 £57.50 £18.75
90th Percentile £14.26 - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £18.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year +21.62% +8.82% +2.16%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Shropshire

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Shropshire

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in Shropshire

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 4 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
Telford +27 6 £536 +27.62%
System Testing
West Midlands

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (12.50%) WebLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Ant
2 1 (12.50%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (12.50%) Bitbucket
General
1 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Developer
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Agile
1 8 (100.00%) Scrum
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (87.50%) Bash
2 7 (87.50%) Bourne shell
2 7 (87.50%) Korn
2 7 (87.50%) PL/SQL
3 1 (12.50%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) BPSS Clearance
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Oracle