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 5 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 86 103
Rank change year-on-year -19 +17 +18
Contract jobs citing System Testing 8 1 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.43% 0.095% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.11% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £250
25th Percentile £528 - £346
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.50%
75th Percentile £667 - £475
90th Percentile £676 - -
England median daily rate £528 £567 £525
% change year-on-year -6.80% +7.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £57.50
Median hourly rate - - £60.00
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 - £68.27
% change year-on-year - - +119.15%

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 1,487 912 1,656
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 79.65% 86.94% 86.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 465 818
10th Percentile £198 £248 £250
25th Percentile £350 £399 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +3.09% -3.00%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £582
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 447 153 513
10th Percentile £14.01 £15.62 £14.16
25th Percentile £16.40 £19.25 £15.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £50.00 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year -58.00% +31.16% +15.52%
75th Percentile £64.50 £72.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £29.32 £35.00 £33.78
% change year-on-year -16.23% +3.63% -5.26%

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 5 March 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 5 March 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
Essex - 3 £662 - 3
Cambridgeshire +1 2 - - 2
Hertfordshire - 2 £528 - 2
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 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 3 (37.50%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
1 2 (25.00%) MSTest
1 2 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Finance
2 3 (37.50%) Organisational Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Analyst
1 2 (25.00%) Developer
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow Developer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Analytical Modelling
2 3 (37.50%) Credit Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
2 3 (37.50%) Regulatory Compliance
2 3 (37.50%) Risk Management
2 3 (37.50%) Scorecard
2 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
2 3 (37.50%) Translating Business Requirements
3 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (25.00%) Test Management
3 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (25.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) R
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (25.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP ALM
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) HP
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (25.00%) ServiceNow
1 2 (25.00%) Siemens