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 30 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 66 104
Rank change year-on-year -40 +38 +12
Contract jobs citing System Testing 9 11 6
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.41% 1.17% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 1.31% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £228
25th Percentile £238 - £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 - £400
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.00%
75th Percentile £313 - £438
90th Percentile - - £460
England median daily rate £500 £575 £500
% change year-on-year -13.04% +15.00% -5.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 8 1
10th Percentile - £41.22 -
25th Percentile £51.25 £54.06 £57.50
Median hourly rate £52.50 £55.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £53.75 - £62.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £41.86 £55.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -23.90% +161.90% -66.40%

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 1,703 839 1,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 77.13% 88.88% 86.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 429 710
10th Percentile £200 £230 £206
25th Percentile £363 £406 £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £500 £470
Median % change year-on-year -2.90% +6.38% -1.05%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 433 179 605
10th Percentile £14.64 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.95 £15.39
Median hourly rate £22.63 £46.18 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.00% +15.45% +62.47%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £85.00 £75.25
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £35.68
% change year-on-year +50.00% -15.92% -4.85%

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

System Testing
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
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 30 April 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 -26 6 £275 - 1
Cambridgeshire +8 2 - - 1
Essex -12 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (11.11%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Ethernet
1 4 (44.44%) Software-Defined Radio
1 4 (44.44%) Wireless
2 1 (11.11%) SpaceWire
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) MSTest
2 2 (22.22%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (44.44%) Law
2 1 (11.11%) Aerospace
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) DSP Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) DSP Software Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Test Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) FPGA
1 4 (44.44%) PCIe
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) FreeRTOS
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (11.11%) Linux
3 1 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Digital Signal Processing
1 4 (44.44%) Signal Processing
1 4 (44.44%) Software Engineering
1 4 (44.44%) SysML
1 4 (44.44%) UML
2 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Agile
3 2 (22.22%) Change Control
3 2 (22.22%) Code Quality
3 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
3 2 (22.22%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Integration Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Non-Functional Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Management
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
4 1 (11.11%) API Integration
4 1 (11.11%) TestOps
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) C
2 4 (44.44%) Embedded C
3 2 (22.22%) C#
4 1 (11.11%) Bash
4 1 (11.11%) Java
4 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) MIL-STD-1553
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) HP ALM
1 2 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) HP
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) Siemens
2 1 (11.11%) EMC