System Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 681 684 703
Rank change year-on-year +3 +19 -2
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 216 296 594
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.28% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.30% 0.40%
Number of salaries quoted 157 172 352
10th Percentile £30,900 £33,750 £35,000
25th Percentile £38,084 £38,813 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £66,250 £67,500 £68,188
90th Percentile £81,019 £77,715 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +12.82%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +27 189 £56,000 +1.82% 90
UK excluding London -57 148 £45,000 -10.00% 65
Work from Home +103 84 £48,782 -11.31% 26
South East +43 62 £56,000 +1.82% 17
London +110 43 £55,000 -20.08% 24
North of England +14 26 £42,500 -15.00% 6
Midlands -19 23 £42,500 +7.59% 18
North West +9 20 £40,144 -23.54% 6
Scotland -53 18 £38,500 -14.44% 2
West Midlands +4 15 £40,000 -27.27% 12
South West -20 15 £57,500 -14.81% 18
East Midlands -19 8 £42,500 +13.33% 6
Yorkshire +62 6 £47,500 +26.67%
East of England +5 4 £65,000 +8.33% 8

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 12 (5.56%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.93%) Anypoint
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
Applications
1 14 (6.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.63%) Simulink
3 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.93%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (7.41%) Workday HCM
2 4 (1.85%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (1.39%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (0.93%) SAP MII
5 1 (0.46%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.46%) Markit EDM
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.46%) SAP HR
5 1 (0.46%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.46%) thinkFolio
5 1 (0.46%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 13 (6.02%) Azure
1 13 (6.02%) Dynamics 365
2 12 (5.56%) SaaS
3 11 (5.09%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.17%) AWS
5 6 (2.78%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.39%) GitHub
7 3 (1.39%) Power Automate
7 3 (1.39%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.93%) Apigee
8 2 (0.93%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.46%) Amazon ECS
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.46%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.46%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.46%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.39%) Network Security
2 2 (0.93%) DNS
2 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.93%) Wireless
3 1 (0.46%) Firewall
3 1 (0.46%) Internet
3 1 (0.46%) Intrusion Detection
3 1 (0.46%) Modbus
3 1 (0.46%) MQTT
3 1 (0.46%) SAN
3 1 (0.46%) VoIP
3 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.94%) MongoDB
2 14 (6.48%) SQL Server
3 13 (6.02%) PostgreSQL
3 13 (6.02%) Relational Database
4 12 (5.56%) GIS
4 12 (5.56%) MySQL
4 12 (5.56%) NoSQL
5 10 (4.63%) Geospatial Data
6 6 (2.78%) Redis
7 5 (2.31%) Power BI
8 4 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.85%) Electronic Patient Records
9 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
9 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.46%) Delta Lake
9 1 (0.46%) DTS
9 1 (0.46%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (10.65%) Ant
2 10 (4.63%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.78%) JIRA
4 5 (2.31%) Rational DOORS
5 3 (1.39%) Postman
5 3 (1.39%) Rational Rhapsody
6 2 (0.93%) Git
6 2 (0.93%) Jenkins
6 2 (0.93%) Selenium
6 2 (0.93%) Spinnaker
7 1 (0.46%) GitLab
7 1 (0.46%) JMeter
7 1 (0.46%) SoapUI
7 1 (0.46%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.46%) Zephyr
General
1 86 (39.81%) Social Skills
2 42 (19.44%) Analytical Skills
3 38 (17.59%) Finance
4 18 (8.33%) Manufacturing
5 14 (6.48%) Public Sector
6 11 (5.09%) Marketing
7 9 (4.17%) Electronics
7 9 (4.17%) Telecoms
8 8 (3.70%) Front Office
9 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (3.24%) Military
10 5 (2.31%) Retail
11 4 (1.85%) Aviation
11 4 (1.85%) Banking
12 3 (1.39%) Back Office
12 3 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.39%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.93%) Automotive
13 2 (0.93%) Billing
13 2 (0.93%) Legal
Job Titles
1 59 (27.31%) Developer
2 41 (18.98%) Analyst
3 30 (13.89%) Consultant
4 26 (12.04%) Software Engineer
5 23 (10.65%) C++ Developer
6 19 (8.80%) Functional Consultant
7 18 (8.33%) Lead
8 17 (7.87%) Test Analyst
9 16 (7.41%) Tester
9 16 (7.41%) Workday Consultant
10 15 (6.94%) Software Developer
10 15 (6.94%) Workday Functional Consultant
11 12 (5.56%) Applications Developer
11 12 (5.56%) Software Tester
12 10 (4.63%) Embedded Developer
12 10 (4.63%) Embedded Software Developer
13 9 (4.17%) .NET Applications Developer
13 9 (4.17%) .NET Developer
13 9 (4.17%) Architect
13 9 (4.17%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (11.57%) .NET
1 25 (11.57%) Hibernate
2 16 (7.41%) AngularJS
3 13 (6.02%) .NET Core
4 12 (5.56%) HTML
5 10 (4.63%) .NET Framework
5 10 (4.63%) CSS
5 10 (4.63%) JSON
5 10 (4.63%) XML
6 9 (4.17%) RESTful
7 7 (3.24%) ASP.NET
7 7 (3.24%) React
7 7 (3.24%) WCF
8 6 (2.78%) Blazor
8 6 (2.78%) HTML5
8 6 (2.78%) Node.js
8 6 (2.78%) PostGIS
8 6 (2.78%) Svelte
8 6 (2.78%) Vue
9 5 (2.31%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.17%) NHS
2 8 (3.70%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.31%) Data Structures
3 5 (2.31%) Product Ownership
3 5 (2.31%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (1.85%) AS400
4 4 (1.85%) SCADA
5 3 (1.39%) Derivative
5 3 (1.39%) Equities
5 3 (1.39%) Fixed Income
5 3 (1.39%) Wiki
6 2 (0.93%) BYOD
6 2 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (0.93%) FMCG
6 2 (0.93%) Online Banking
6 2 (0.93%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.46%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.46%) IoT
7 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 51 (23.61%) Linux
1 51 (23.61%) Windows
2 13 (6.02%) Embedded Linux
3 5 (2.31%) Unix
4 3 (1.39%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.39%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.93%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (27.78%) Test Automation
3 47 (21.76%) User Acceptance Testing
4 39 (18.06%) Agile
5 38 (17.59%) Software Testing
6 37 (17.13%) Software Engineering
7 28 (12.96%) DevOps
7 28 (12.96%) Multithreading
8 27 (12.50%) Migration
9 26 (12.04%) Code Quality
10 25 (11.57%) Actionable Insight
11 23 (10.65%) Regression Testing
11 23 (10.65%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (10.19%) Project Management
13 20 (9.26%) Collaborative Working
13 20 (9.26%) Continuous Integration
13 20 (9.26%) Unit Testing
14 19 (8.80%) Roadmaps
15 18 (8.33%) GAP Analysis
15 18 (8.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 53 (24.54%) Java
2 51 (23.61%) SQL
3 44 (20.37%) C#
4 41 (18.98%) C++
5 40 (18.52%) JavaScript
6 38 (17.59%) Python
7 17 (7.87%) C
8 8 (3.70%) Rust
9 7 (3.24%) Ada
10 5 (2.31%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.85%) Apex Code
11 4 (1.85%) RPG
11 4 (1.85%) VB
11 4 (1.85%) VBA
12 1 (0.46%) PHP
12 1 (0.46%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.46%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.46%) X++
Qualifications
1 65 (30.09%) Security Cleared
2 35 (16.20%) Degree
3 33 (15.28%) SC Cleared
4 22 (10.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (7.41%) Computer Science Degree
6 12 (5.56%) ISEB
7 10 (4.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (1.39%) HND
8 3 (1.39%) ISTQB
9 2 (0.93%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.93%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.93%) CISSP
9 2 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.46%) CBAP
10 1 (0.46%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.46%) HNC
10 1 (0.46%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.46%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (13.43%) QA
2 4 (1.85%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.39%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.39%) MISRA
4 2 (0.93%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.93%) GDPR
4 2 (0.93%) GRC
5 1 (0.46%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.46%) ISO 14001
5 1 (0.46%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (1.85%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.39%) Control-M
2 2 (0.93%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.46%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 18 (8.33%) Oracle
2 17 (7.87%) Microsoft
2 17 (7.87%) Workday
3 16 (7.41%) Salesforce
3 16 (7.41%) SAP
4 10 (4.63%) Xilinx
5 6 (2.78%) ESRI
6 4 (1.85%) IBM
6 4 (1.85%) MuleSoft
7 3 (1.39%) AVEVA
8 2 (0.93%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.93%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.93%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.46%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.46%) Concur
9 1 (0.46%) Databricks
9 1 (0.46%) Denodo
9 1 (0.46%) HP
9 1 (0.46%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.46%) Talend