System Testing Contract Job Trends in Corsham

System Testing
Wiltshire > Corsham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Corsham requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 37 41
Rank change year-on-year +10 +4 -3
Contract jobs citing System Testing 8 13 7
As % of all contract jobs in Corsham 4.68% 4.30% 2.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.91% 5.06% 2.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 6
10th Percentile £565 £490 £463
25th Percentile £595 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £628 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year +19.52% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £665 £638 £575
90th Percentile £695 £710 £625
Wiltshire median daily rate £628 £525 £565
% change year-on-year +19.52% -7.08% -1.74%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Corsham

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 Corsham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 163 257 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Corsham 95.32% 85.10% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 195 212
10th Percentile £450 £463 £447
25th Percentile £519 £504 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £566
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% +3.31% -1.52%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £669
90th Percentile £706 £756 £723
Wiltshire median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 11
10th Percentile £18.76 - £40.85
25th Percentile £18.87 - £42.55
Median hourly rate £20.44 - £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -18.70%
75th Percentile £25.15 - £62.25
90th Percentile £26.17 - £64.50
Wiltshire median hourly rate £22.38 £12.79 £60.00
% change year-on-year +75.00% -78.68% +9.09%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Corsham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Corsham.

System Testing job vacancy trend in Corsham

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Corsham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Corsham citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Corsham citing System Testing

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Corsham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (75.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) BGP
2 4 (50.00%) MPLS
2 4 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 3 (37.50%) IPsec
3 3 (37.50%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) Skype
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
3 2 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
General
1 7 (87.50%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (12.50%) Advertising
4 1 (12.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) NETCONF
1 3 (37.50%) RESTCONF
2 2 (25.00%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Linux
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) NsoIT
1 7 (87.50%) Service Management
2 5 (62.50%) Validation
3 4 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (50.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 3 (37.50%) Agile
5 2 (25.00%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
6 1 (12.50%) ArchiMate
6 1 (12.50%) Functional Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Reverse Engineering
6 1 (12.50%) SDLC
6 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 1 (12.50%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (12.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 8 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) CCNP
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (12.50%) MCSA
4 1 (12.50%) MCSE
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (12.50%) OCA
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle Certification
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) OPNET
2 1 (12.50%) Progress Chef
2 1 (12.50%) Puppet
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Atlassian
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco
2 4 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam