System Testing Contract Job Trends in the East of England

System Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East of England requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 83 104
Rank change year-on-year +1 +21 +20
Contract jobs citing System Testing 19 1 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 1.11% 0.092% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.11% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 0 3
10th Percentile £497 - £243
25th Percentile £528 - £330
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.00%
75th Percentile £662 - -
90th Percentile £682 - -
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.50 - £57.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £60.00
75th Percentile £42.50 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.93 - £68.27
% change year-on-year - - +1606.63%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,408 931 1,603
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 81.91% 85.89% 86.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 416 822
10th Percentile £196 £243 £250
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £599
90th Percentile £677 £691 £709
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 443 161 439
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.62 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.22 £15.00
Median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £31.80
Median % change year-on-year -49.78% +25.79% +44.55%
75th Percentile £60.75 £68.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in the East of England

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Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing System Testing

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 3 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the East of England

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing System Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing System Testing

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 3 February 2026. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire - 11 £528 - 2
Essex - 5 £662 - 4
Cambridgeshire -2 2 - - 1
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 5 (26.32%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) JIRA
1 2 (10.53%) MSTest
1 2 (10.53%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 9 (47.37%) Analytical Skills
1 9 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Local Government
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Banking
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Developer
2 8 (42.11%) ServiceNow Developer
3 4 (21.05%) Software Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Senior
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Senior ServiceNow Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Service Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Service Support Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Systems Support
4 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Python Developer
5 1 (5.26%) Python Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) R Developer
5 1 (5.26%) SAS Developer
5 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) User Acceptance Testing
2 9 (47.37%) Customer Requirements
2 9 (47.37%) Knowledge Transfer
2 9 (47.37%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (47.37%) Product Strategy
3 8 (42.11%) Risk Management
4 6 (31.58%) Agile
5 5 (26.32%) Analytical Modelling
5 5 (26.32%) Credit Risk Management
5 5 (26.32%) Regulatory Compliance
5 5 (26.32%) Scorecard
5 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
5 5 (26.32%) Translating Business Requirements
6 4 (21.05%) Software Engineering
6 4 (21.05%) Time Management
7 3 (15.79%) Customer Service
7 3 (15.79%) ITSM
7 3 (15.79%) Project Management
7 3 (15.79%) Regression Testing
7 3 (15.79%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (26.32%) Java
1 5 (26.32%) Python
1 5 (26.32%) R
1 5 (26.32%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) C#
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
1 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB
3 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) HP ALM
1 2 (10.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) ServiceNow
2 3 (15.79%) Computacenter
3 2 (10.53%) HP
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Siemens