System Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 309 378
Rank change year-on-year +1 +69 -37
Contract jobs citing System Testing 86 142 129
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.61% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.68% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 111 93
10th Percentile £360 £400 £221
25th Percentile £450 £457 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +23.29%
75th Percentile £575 £591 £538
90th Percentile £710 £629 £599
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £27.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £61.25 £38.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year -66.40% +38.46% +0.31%
75th Percentile £21.50 £63.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - £49.95
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year -61.82% +22.71% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,292 20,943 27,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.44% 89.50% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,311 14,478 18,837
10th Percentile £250 £256 £235
25th Percentile £379 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £651
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,056 1,286 1,344
10th Percentile £12.32 £11.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.39 £14.21
Median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.65 £61.15
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 10 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
South West -10 23 £525 -10.18% 19
North of England +50 22 £500 - 10
Midlands +23 17 £463 +28.47% 19
North West +35 13 £500 - 6
South East -3 12 £581 +10.57% 22
West Midlands +10 11 £500 +29.87% 12
Yorkshire +23 9 £538 +7.50% 3
Scotland +24 7 £475 -5.00% 4
East Midlands +27 6 £363 +0.69% 7
East of England +12 4 £400 -20.00% 6
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (10.47%) Confluence
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.16%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.16%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.16%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (9.30%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (13.95%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.93%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (5.81%) Azure
3 3 (3.49%) Apigee
3 3 (3.49%) AWS
3 3 (3.49%) Veeva
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (1.16%) BrowserStack
4 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
4 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.81%) VSAN
2 3 (3.49%) Skype
2 3 (3.49%) SSL
3 2 (2.33%) 4G
3 2 (2.33%) 5G
3 2 (2.33%) Network Security
3 2 (2.33%) VoIP
4 1 (1.16%) DHCP
4 1 (1.16%) DNS
4 1 (1.16%) LAN
4 1 (1.16%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.65%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.49%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.16%) Power BI
3 1 (1.16%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (12.79%) JIRA
2 5 (5.81%) Jenkins
2 5 (5.81%) Maven
3 4 (4.65%) Ant
3 4 (4.65%) JUnit
4 3 (3.49%) gulp
5 2 (2.33%) Git
5 2 (2.33%) NUnit
5 2 (2.33%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.33%) Selenium
5 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
6 1 (1.16%) Postman
6 1 (1.16%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (24.42%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (24.42%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.12%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.95%) Marketing
4 10 (11.63%) Finance
5 4 (4.65%) Automotive
5 4 (4.65%) Military
6 3 (3.49%) Aerospace
7 2 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.33%) Retail
8 1 (1.16%) General Ledger
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 24 (27.91%) Analyst
2 18 (20.93%) Consultant
3 16 (18.60%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 11 (12.79%) Developer
5 10 (11.63%) Test Engineer
6 8 (9.30%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.30%) Lead
6 8 (9.30%) SQL Developer
6 8 (9.30%) Test Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Designer
7 5 (5.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.81%) Product Analyst
7 5 (5.81%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Data Analyst
8 4 (4.65%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.65%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (4.65%) Oracle Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.49%) Test and Integration Engineer
9 3 (3.49%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.81%) .NET
1 5 (5.81%) Flash
1 5 (5.81%) Node.js
2 4 (4.65%) Gherkin
3 3 (3.49%) CSS
3 3 (3.49%) HTML
3 3 (3.49%) OAuth
3 3 (3.49%) OpenID
3 3 (3.49%) RESTful
3 3 (3.49%) SAML
4 2 (2.33%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.16%) Middleware
5 1 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.79%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (6.98%) Onboarding
3 5 (5.81%) Clustering
3 5 (5.81%) Management Information System
3 5 (5.81%) Product Ownership
4 4 (4.65%) Mobile App
5 3 (3.49%) PKI
6 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.33%) Life Science
6 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.16%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.16%) EPoS
7 1 (1.16%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.16%) IoT
7 1 (1.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.30%) Unix
2 6 (6.98%) Linux
3 5 (5.81%) Windows
4 3 (3.49%) Android
4 3 (3.49%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.49%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.49%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.49%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.33%) CentOS
6 1 (1.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (33.72%) Agile
2 28 (32.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 21 (24.42%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (24.42%) Software Testing
4 19 (22.09%) End-to-End Testing
5 18 (20.93%) Migration
6 16 (18.60%) Scrum
7 15 (17.44%) Data Migration
8 13 (15.12%) Test Scripting
9 12 (13.95%) CRM
9 12 (13.95%) Test Automation
10 11 (12.79%) Customer Experience
10 11 (12.79%) Customer Insight
10 11 (12.79%) Requirements Gathering
10 11 (12.79%) Translating Business Requirements
10 11 (12.79%) Validation
11 9 (10.47%) Service Management
11 9 (10.47%) Waterfall
12 8 (9.30%) Business Analysis
12 8 (9.30%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.79%) SQL
2 10 (11.63%) Java
3 7 (8.14%) Bash
3 7 (8.14%) Bourne shell
3 7 (8.14%) Korn
3 7 (8.14%) PL/SQL
4 6 (6.98%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.65%) Python
6 3 (3.49%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.33%) C#
7 2 (2.33%) C++
7 2 (2.33%) PHP
8 1 (1.16%) C
Qualifications
1 17 (19.77%) Security Cleared
2 16 (18.60%) SC Cleared
3 14 (16.28%) Degree
4 7 (8.14%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (6.98%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (6.98%) CCNA
5 6 (6.98%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.81%) ISTQB
6 5 (5.81%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.81%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.65%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) MCSE
9 1 (1.16%) CCNP
9 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.16%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.47%) QA
2 3 (3.49%) Def Stans
3 2 (2.33%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.16%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.16%) IFRS
4 1 (1.16%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.81%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (5.81%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.16%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (5.81%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.49%) Ansible
2 3 (3.49%) WSUS
3 1 (1.16%) SCCM
3 1 (1.16%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (19.77%) Microsoft
2 13 (15.12%) Oracle
3 6 (6.98%) Atlassian
3 6 (6.98%) Cisco
3 6 (6.98%) VMware
4 3 (3.49%) Google
5 2 (2.33%) Red Hat
5 2 (2.33%) SAP
6 1 (1.16%) Avaya
6 1 (1.16%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.16%) Genesys
6 1 (1.16%) Peregrine
6 1 (1.16%) Remedy
6 1 (1.16%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.16%) Siemens
6 1 (1.16%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.16%) Veeam