System Testing Contracts in Blandford Forum

System Testing
Dorset > Blandford Forum

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Blandford Forum requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 3 - 2
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 8 0 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 80.00% - 75.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 80.00% - 75.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile - - £600
25th Percentile £525 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £610
75th Percentile £575 - £612
90th Percentile £583 - £614
Dorset median daily rate £550 £600 £611
% change year-on-year -8.33% -1.80% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Blandford Forum

System Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Blandford Forum.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10 4 12
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Blandford Forum 100.00% 100.00% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 8
10th Percentile £496 - £574
25th Percentile £522 £450 £600
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £610
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -18.03% -
75th Percentile £575 £550 £613
90th Percentile £580 - £626
Dorset median daily rate £475 £425 £488
% change year-on-year +11.76% -12.82% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £11.87 -
Dorset median hourly rate £21.63 £15.31 £56.29
% change year-on-year +41.25% -72.80% +5.28%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Blandford Forum

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Blandford Forum

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Blandford Forum

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Blandford Forum 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 4 (50.00%) Confluence
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Skype
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Senior
1 4 (50.00%) Senior Wintel Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 4 (50.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Clustering
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) Windows 10
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 4 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Critical Thinking
1 8 (100.00%) NsoIT
1 8 (100.00%) Service Management
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (50.00%) High Availability
2 4 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
2 4 (50.00%) Power Management
2 4 (50.00%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Degree
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) CCNA
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) Master's Degree
2 4 (50.00%) MCSE
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (50.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) vCenter Server
1 4 (50.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (50.00%) VMware