System Testing Contracts

System Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 465 472 560
Rank change year-on-year +7 +88 -48
Contract jobs citing System Testing 133 256 303
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.43% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.48% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 202 211
10th Percentile £358 £351 £306
25th Percentile £433 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £562 £609 £588
90th Percentile £649 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £511 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -2.62% +16.67% +21.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 9
10th Percentile - £65.63 £24.83
25th Percentile £20.50 £72.19 £35.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £86.25 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -75.65% +93.82% +9.20%
75th Percentile £42.00 £102.19 £48.75
90th Percentile £54.30 £109.88 £49.35
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £44.82
% change year-on-year -66.40% +39.45% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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
England +27 115 £500 -6.76% 93
UK excluding London +10 90 £511 -2.62% 67
Work from Home +100 54 £500 -2.44% 28
London +48 35 £450 -18.18% 25
South West -7 22 £550 -4.35% 19
North of England +47 19 £500 - 6
South East +5 18 £565 +7.67% 17
Midlands +18 16 £500 +38.89% 19
North West +28 13 £500 - 6
West Midlands +20 10 £500 +29.87% 13
Scotland +17 7 £475 -5.00% 2
East Midlands +23 6 £363 +0.69% 6
Yorkshire +22 6 £436 -12.80%
East of England +16 6 £400 -20.00% 8
Northern Ireland +10 3 £500 -

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 11 (8.27%) Confluence
2 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.50%) CICS
3 2 (1.50%) CMS
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.50%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.75%) SAS
4 1 (0.75%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.75%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.02%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 12 (9.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.01%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 2 (1.50%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.50%) Markit EDM
4 1 (0.75%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.75%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.75%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.75%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.75%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.75%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.75%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.75%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.75%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.79%) Dynamics 365
2 15 (11.28%) Azure
3 8 (6.02%) AWS
4 5 (3.76%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 5 (3.76%) Power Platform
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Key Vault
5 4 (3.01%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (2.26%) Apigee
6 3 (2.26%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.26%) PowerApps
6 3 (2.26%) Veeva
7 2 (1.50%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.75%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.75%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (0.75%) Boomi
8 1 (0.75%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.75%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (5.26%) VSAN
2 4 (3.01%) DNS
3 3 (2.26%) SSL
4 2 (1.50%) 4G
4 2 (1.50%) 5G
4 2 (1.50%) DHCP
4 2 (1.50%) Internet
4 2 (1.50%) Network Security
4 2 (1.50%) Skype
4 2 (1.50%) Unified Communications
4 2 (1.50%) VoIP
5 1 (0.75%) LAN
5 1 (0.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.02%) Relational Database
2 5 (3.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.01%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.01%) RDBMS
4 3 (2.26%) Apache Cassandra
4 3 (2.26%) DB2
4 3 (2.26%) IDMS
5 2 (1.50%) Power BI
6 1 (0.75%) Azure SQL Database
6 1 (0.75%) Geospatial Data
6 1 (0.75%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (13.53%) JIRA
2 8 (6.02%) Selenium
3 6 (4.51%) Git
3 6 (4.51%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.76%) Maven
5 4 (3.01%) Ant
5 4 (3.01%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.26%) gulp
7 2 (1.50%) Bitbucket
7 2 (1.50%) JUnit
7 2 (1.50%) NUnit
7 2 (1.50%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.50%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.75%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.75%) ClearQuest
8 1 (0.75%) JMeter
8 1 (0.75%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.75%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.75%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 37 (27.82%) Analytical Skills
2 34 (25.56%) Social Skills
3 22 (16.54%) Finance
4 17 (12.78%) Public Sector
5 13 (9.77%) Marketing
6 6 (4.51%) Back Office
7 5 (3.76%) Military
8 4 (3.01%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.26%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.26%) Automotive
9 3 (2.26%) Front Office
9 3 (2.26%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.26%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.50%) Retail
11 1 (0.75%) Banking
11 1 (0.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.75%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 37 (27.82%) Analyst
2 22 (16.54%) Consultant
3 17 (12.78%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 16 (12.03%) Developer
5 13 (9.77%) Lead
5 13 (9.77%) Test Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) Business Analyst
6 10 (7.52%) SQL Developer
6 10 (7.52%) Tester
7 8 (6.02%) Designer
8 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Senior
9 6 (4.51%) Test Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (3.76%) Lead Designer
10 5 (3.76%) Product Analyst
11 4 (3.01%) Functional Consultant
11 4 (3.01%) Oracle Analyst
11 4 (3.01%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.02%) Node.js
2 7 (5.26%) .NET
3 6 (4.51%) CSS
3 6 (4.51%) Flash
3 6 (4.51%) HTML
3 6 (4.51%) RESTful
4 5 (3.76%) AngularJS
5 4 (3.01%) JSON
5 4 (3.01%) XML
6 3 (2.26%) OAuth
6 3 (2.26%) OpenID
6 3 (2.26%) REST
6 3 (2.26%) SAML
7 2 (1.50%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.50%) Oracle Fusion
8 1 (0.75%) Gherkin
8 1 (0.75%) Middleware
8 1 (0.75%) Playwright
8 1 (0.75%) pytest
8 1 (0.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.77%) Legacy Systems
2 7 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 6 (4.51%) Clustering
4 5 (3.76%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.76%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 5 (3.76%) Product Ownership
5 4 (3.01%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.26%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.26%) Private Cloud
6 3 (2.26%) VSAM
7 2 (1.50%) CCTV
7 2 (1.50%) Life Science
7 2 (1.50%) PKI
7 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.75%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.75%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.75%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.75%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.28%) Unix
2 10 (7.52%) Linux
3 8 (6.02%) Windows
4 3 (2.26%) Android
4 3 (2.26%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.50%) Windows 7
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (36.84%) Agile
2 40 (30.08%) User Acceptance Testing
3 36 (27.07%) Problem-Solving
4 31 (23.31%) End-to-End Testing
4 31 (23.31%) Migration
5 29 (21.80%) Test Automation
6 28 (21.05%) Software Testing
7 24 (18.05%) Integration Testing
8 22 (16.54%) Scrum
9 18 (13.53%) Data Migration
10 16 (12.03%) Validation
11 15 (11.28%) Requirements Gathering
11 15 (11.28%) Waterfall
12 14 (10.53%) Translating Business Requirements
13 13 (9.77%) Manual Testing
14 12 (9.02%) CI/CD
14 12 (9.02%) CRM
15 11 (8.27%) Customer Experience
15 11 (8.27%) Customer Insight
15 11 (8.27%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 20 (15.04%) SQL
2 14 (10.53%) Java
3 10 (7.52%) JavaScript
4 9 (6.77%) Bash
4 9 (6.77%) Bourne shell
4 9 (6.77%) Korn
4 9 (6.77%) PL/SQL
4 9 (6.77%) Python
5 6 (4.51%) C#
6 5 (3.76%) PHP
7 4 (3.01%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.26%) C
8 3 (2.26%) COBOL
9 2 (1.50%) Assembly Language
9 2 (1.50%) C++
9 2 (1.50%) JCL
9 2 (1.50%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.75%) VB
10 1 (0.75%) VBA
10 1 (0.75%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (19.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (18.80%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.53%) Degree
4 7 (5.26%) CCNA
4 7 (5.26%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (5.26%) ISTQB
5 6 (4.51%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (4.51%) Master's Degree
5 6 (4.51%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (4.51%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.01%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.50%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.75%) CCNP
8 1 (0.75%) ISEB
8 1 (0.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.75%) MCSE
8 1 (0.75%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.28%) QA
2 4 (3.01%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.01%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.26%) Def Stans
3 3 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.50%) PCI DSS
4 2 (1.50%) SLA
5 1 (0.75%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.75%) IFRS
5 1 (0.75%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.75%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 7 (5.26%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.01%) Ansible
3 2 (1.50%) WSUS
4 1 (0.75%) Control-M
4 1 (0.75%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.75%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.75%) Puppet
4 1 (0.75%) SCCM
4 1 (0.75%) SCOM
Vendors
1 26 (19.55%) Microsoft
2 20 (15.04%) Oracle
3 8 (6.02%) Atlassian
3 8 (6.02%) VMware
4 7 (5.26%) Cisco
4 7 (5.26%) SAP
5 4 (3.01%) IBM
5 4 (3.01%) Sparx
6 3 (2.26%) Google
7 2 (1.50%) HP
7 2 (1.50%) Murex
7 2 (1.50%) Panasonic
7 2 (1.50%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.50%) SolarWinds
7 2 (1.50%) Veeam
8 1 (0.75%) Ariba
8 1 (0.75%) Dell
8 1 (0.75%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.75%) Splunk
8 1 (0.75%) Workday