System Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

System Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 384 468
Rank change year-on-year +85 +84 -69
Contract jobs citing System Testing 48 83 151
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.32% 0.33% 0.34%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.37% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 68 122
10th Percentile £380 £356 £306
25th Percentile £450 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £504
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.74% +18.53%
75th Percentile £563 £575 £588
90th Percentile £725 £686 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,282 22,550 40,272
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.98% 89.75% 91.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,890 15,929 29,247
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 522 532
10th Percentile £15.05 £18.63 £13.75
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £69.31 £55.38
90th Percentile £75.18 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

System Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

System Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing System Testing.

System Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing System Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

System Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing System Testing.

System Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (4.17%) Confluence
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.08%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (22.92%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.08%) Markit EDM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP APO
2 1 (2.08%) SAP IBP
2 1 (2.08%) SAP MM
2 1 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 3 (6.25%) AWS
2 3 (6.25%) Azure
2 3 (6.25%) Power Platform
3 2 (4.17%) Apigee
3 2 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (4.17%) PowerApps
4 1 (2.08%) Boomi
4 1 (2.08%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.17%) 4G
1 2 (4.17%) 5G
1 2 (4.17%) Network Security
1 2 (4.17%) SSL
1 2 (4.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) Apache Cassandra
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.08%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 3 (6.25%) Selenium
3 2 (4.17%) Ant
3 2 (4.17%) gulp
3 2 (4.17%) Maven
3 2 (4.17%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.08%) Cucumber
4 1 (2.08%) Gerrit
4 1 (2.08%) Git
4 1 (2.08%) JMeter
4 1 (2.08%) JUnit
4 1 (2.08%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.08%) TestNG
4 1 (2.08%) Visual Studio
4 1 (2.08%) WebDriver
General
1 11 (22.92%) Marketing
2 9 (18.75%) Social Skills
3 7 (14.58%) Finance
4 4 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.33%) Automotive
4 4 (8.33%) Military
4 4 (8.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.25%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.08%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 16 (33.33%) Consultant
1 16 (33.33%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 8 (16.67%) Analyst
3 7 (14.58%) Developer
4 6 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 5 (10.42%) Lead
5 5 (10.42%) Tester
6 4 (8.33%) Business Analyst
6 4 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
6 4 (8.33%) Lead Consultant
6 4 (8.33%) SQL Developer
7 3 (6.25%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.25%) Test and Integration Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Designer
8 2 (4.17%) Principal Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Principal Test Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) QA Engineer
8 2 (4.17%) Technical Tester
8 2 (4.17%) Test Manager
9 1 (2.08%) Agile Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.25%) .NET
1 3 (6.25%) REST
2 2 (4.17%) Node.js
2 2 (4.17%) OAuth
2 2 (4.17%) OpenID
2 2 (4.17%) RESTful
2 2 (4.17%) SAML
3 1 (2.08%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.08%) Middleware
3 1 (2.08%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.08%) Playwright
3 1 (2.08%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.17%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.17%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.08%) IoT
3 1 (2.08%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.08%) Replication
3 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (10.42%) Unix
2 3 (6.25%) Linux
3 2 (4.17%) Android
3 2 (4.17%) Apple iOS
3 2 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (43.75%) User Acceptance Testing
2 19 (39.58%) End-to-End Testing
3 18 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (35.42%) Migration
5 16 (33.33%) Agile
6 15 (31.25%) Data Migration
7 11 (22.92%) CRM
7 11 (22.92%) Customer Experience
7 11 (22.92%) Customer Insight
7 11 (22.92%) Test Automation
7 11 (22.92%) Translating Business Requirements
8 10 (20.83%) Software Testing
9 8 (16.67%) Integration Testing
10 7 (14.58%) Test Scripting
11 6 (12.50%) Manual Testing
11 6 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (12.50%) Scrum
12 5 (10.42%) Regression Testing
12 5 (10.42%) Test Strategy
12 5 (10.42%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.50%) SQL
2 5 (10.42%) Java
3 4 (8.33%) Bash
3 4 (8.33%) Bourne shell
3 4 (8.33%) Korn
3 4 (8.33%) PL/SQL
4 3 (6.25%) JavaScript
4 3 (6.25%) Python
5 2 (4.17%) C#
5 2 (4.17%) C++
6 1 (2.08%) TypeScript
6 1 (2.08%) VB
6 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
1 7 (14.58%) Security Cleared
2 5 (10.42%) ISTQB
3 4 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (6.25%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (4.17%) Degree
6 1 (2.08%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.50%) QA
2 3 (6.25%) Def Stans
3 2 (4.17%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.08%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (2.08%) PMO
4 1 (2.08%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (4.17%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (4.17%) Google
3 2 (4.17%) SAP
4 1 (2.08%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.08%) Cognizant
4 1 (2.08%) Dell