System Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

System Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 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 237 222 230
Rank change year-on-year -15 +8 -4
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 20 35 51
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.27% 0.55% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.57% 0.74%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 28
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,775 £40,650
25th Percentile £31,875 £38,313 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year - -10.20% -2.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £84,437
90th Percentile - - £84,999
England median annual salary £56,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +1.82% -3.51% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,110 6,175 6,931
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 82.82% 96.79% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 4,561 3,191 4,708
10th Percentile £26,250 £31,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,700 £40,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £78,750 £78,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the West Midlands 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Staffordshire -16 6 £60,000 +9.09% 3
Birmingham -12 5 £40,000 -27.27% 4
Warwickshire +22 1 £55,000 +35.80% 3
Coventry - 1 - - 1
Shropshire - 1 £60,500 -
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 7 (35.00%) Azure
1 7 (35.00%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (25.00%) Power Platform
3 4 (20.00%) AWS
3 4 (20.00%) Power Automate
3 4 (20.00%) PowerApps
4 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Power BI
2 4 (20.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (15.00%) BusinessObjects
3 3 (15.00%) MySQL
4 1 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (5.00%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Finance
3 3 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Automotive
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (25.00%) Consultant
2 4 (20.00%) Developer
2 4 (20.00%) IT Consultant
3 3 (15.00%) Power Apps Developer
3 3 (15.00%) SCADA Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) SCADA Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Systems Tester
4 2 (10.00%) Tester
5 1 (5.00%) Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
5 1 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 1 (5.00%) Implementation Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) Lead
5 1 (5.00%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Power Platform Developer
5 1 (5.00%) Quality Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (15.00%) Entity Framework
2 3 (15.00%) XML
2 3 (15.00%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) SCADA
2 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Agile
2 8 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 8 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 7 (35.00%) DevOps
4 6 (30.00%) Software Testing
5 4 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
5 4 (20.00%) Change Control
5 4 (20.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (15.00%) Business Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (15.00%) Intelligent Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Project Management
6 3 (15.00%) Service Design
6 3 (15.00%) Software Engineering
6 3 (15.00%) UML
7 2 (10.00%) Data Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Migration
7 2 (10.00%) Requirements Analysis
7 2 (10.00%) Wealth Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (35.00%) C#
2 6 (30.00%) C++
2 6 (30.00%) VB
3 3 (15.00%) Java
4 2 (10.00%) SQL
5 1 (5.00%) VBA
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
2 2 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (10.00%) Jaspersoft
4 1 (5.00%) Denodo
4 1 (5.00%) Talend