System Testing Contracts in the East of England

System Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 6 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 112 117
Rank change year-on-year +50 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing System Testing 24 2 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 2.09% 0.11% 0.100%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.36% 0.12% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 2
10th Percentile £519 £403 £474
25th Percentile £525 £406 £479
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £501
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -15.13% +11.28%
75th Percentile £575 £456 £515
90th Percentile - £468 £517
England median daily rate £575 £520 £550
% change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 0 0
10th Percentile £44.94 - -
25th Percentile £48.09 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £21.00 £23.86
% change year-on-year +161.90% -11.97% -

All Process and 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 1,015 1,608 1,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 88.41% 84.63% 87.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 502 639 1,020
10th Percentile £207 £200 £231
25th Percentile £363 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £428 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.96% -14.41% +5.16%
75th Percentile £575 £565 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 603 352
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.14 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.75% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £63.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.26 £70.00 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £39.55
% change year-on-year -34.02% -3.62% +54.01%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the East of England

System Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing System Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for System Testing in the East of England

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 6 July 2025. 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 +41 18 £550 +29.41% 16
Essex - 5 - - 14
Cambridgeshire - 1 - - 8
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 4 (16.67%) Apache
1 4 (16.67%) IIS
1 4 (16.67%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) SpaceWire
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 4 (16.67%) DB2
1 4 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.17%) Power BI
General
1 3 (12.50%) Aerospace
2 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Aviation
3 1 (4.17%) Avionics
3 1 (4.17%) Finance
3 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Systems Engineer
2 11 (45.83%) Electrical Engineer
3 6 (25.00%) Consultant
4 5 (20.83%) Implementation Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Support Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Implementation Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Manager
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Support
4 5 (20.83%) Technical Support Manager
5 4 (16.67%) Maximo Consultant
6 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) Analyst
7 1 (4.17%) IT Consultant
7 1 (4.17%) IT Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Maximo Engineer
7 1 (4.17%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.67%) SOAP
1 4 (16.67%) Web Services
1 4 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (25.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.67%) Linux
2 4 (16.67%) Unix
2 4 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) TestOps
2 7 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (20.83%) Computer Science
3 5 (20.83%) ITSM
3 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
3 5 (20.83%) Task Automation
4 4 (16.67%) CAFM
4 4 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 4 (16.67%) Data Acquisition
4 4 (16.67%) DevOps
4 4 (16.67%) Facilities Management
4 4 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (16.67%) Service Design
4 4 (16.67%) Service Management
4 4 (16.67%) Workflow
5 2 (8.33%) Customer Requirements
5 2 (8.33%) Functional Testing
5 2 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (8.33%) Product Strategy
5 2 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (54.17%) Python
2 9 (37.50%) Java
3 5 (20.83%) JavaScript
3 5 (20.83%) SQL
4 4 (16.67%) Bash
4 4 (16.67%) C
4 4 (16.67%) Tcl
5 3 (12.50%) VBA
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) Degree
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.17%) GDPR
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (16.67%) IBM
1 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) EMC
2 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.17%) Twitter