System Testing Contracts in the City of London

System Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 123 157
Rank change year-on-year +12 +34 +23
Contract jobs citing System Testing 8 3 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.46% 0.14% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.15% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 14
10th Percentile £455 £348 £313
25th Percentile £481 £353 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £466
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -8.85% -14.45%
75th Percentile £675 £481 £720
90th Percentile £735 £485 £725
Central London median daily rate £500 £425 £466
% change year-on-year +17.65% -8.85% -15.23%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,989 3,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.53% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,034 1,408 2,250
10th Percentile £363 £363 £356
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £684 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £813 £825
Central London median daily rate £575 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +4.55% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the City of London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the City of London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the City of London

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 (12.50%) Oracle Workflow
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg AIM
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM
2 1 (12.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (12.50%) OCI
2 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
2 1 (12.50%) PowerApps
2 1 (12.50%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (12.50%) Power BI
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Billing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Business Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Business Integration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) CRM Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM Developer
3 1 (12.50%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Financials Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Financials Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Functional Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP CRM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Workday Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) Middleware
1 1 (12.50%) REST
1 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) CRM
3 3 (37.50%) Data Management
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Business Analysis
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Regulatory Change
5 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (12.50%) Security Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) ABAP
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) CFA
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) PMI Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) MiFID
2 1 (12.50%) UCITS
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Advent
2 1 (12.50%) Bloomberg
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
2 1 (12.50%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) SimCorp
2 1 (12.50%) Workday