System Testing Contracts in England

System Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 305 427 441
Rank change year-on-year +122 +14 +105
Contract jobs citing System Testing 184 115 218
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.76% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.83% 0.36% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 91 170
10th Percentile £405 £356 £350
25th Percentile £506 £415 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £500 £530
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% +6.00%
75th Percentile £651 £575 £612
90th Percentile £704 £650 £725
UK median daily rate £571 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +14.20% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 1
10th Percentile £41.22 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 £20.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +161.90% -66.40% +78.57%
75th Percentile - £42.00 £63.75
90th Percentile - £54.30 -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £21.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year +161.90% -66.40% +39.45%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in England

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing System Testing in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for System Testing in England

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
London +73 69 £600 +35.59% 66
South West +66 42 £575 +4.55% 15
South East +53 23 £600 +1.65% 45
Midlands +21 16 £506 +9.46% 31
North of England +12 14 £513 +2.65% 27
North West +17 13 £514 +2.80% 22
East of England +36 12 - - 22
East Midlands +16 12 £516 +42.41% 9
West Midlands +7 4 £400 -20.00% 21
Yorkshire +1 1 £425 -19.05% 3
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 26 (14.13%) Confluence
2 11 (5.98%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (2.72%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.63%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (1.63%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (1.63%) Skype for Business
5 1 (0.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 1 (0.54%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 22 (11.96%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (4.89%) NEC Housing
2 6 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (2.72%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (2.72%) Oracle EBS
3 5 (2.72%) SAP HR
3 5 (2.72%) SAP Payroll
4 4 (2.17%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.09%) Aladdin
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle EBS R12
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (1.09%) SAP CRM
5 2 (1.09%) SAP EWM
5 2 (1.09%) SAP MDG
5 2 (1.09%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle E-Business Tax
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle FAH
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 27 (14.67%) Azure
2 11 (5.98%) AWS
2 11 (5.98%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (4.35%) GCP
4 7 (3.80%) OpenShift
4 7 (3.80%) Power Automate
4 7 (3.80%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (3.26%) OCI
6 5 (2.72%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.72%) Power Platform
7 4 (2.17%) Azure Machine Learning
7 4 (2.17%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.63%) PowerApps
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Data Factory
9 2 (1.09%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 2 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
10 1 (0.54%) IaaS
10 1 (0.54%) PaaS
10 1 (0.54%) SaaS
10 1 (0.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (4.35%) Skype
2 7 (3.80%) Unified Communications
3 6 (3.26%) BGP
3 6 (3.26%) OSPF
4 5 (2.72%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (2.72%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (2.72%) DMVPN
4 5 (2.72%) Firewall
4 5 (2.72%) VXLAN
5 3 (1.63%) DHCP
5 3 (1.63%) DNS
5 3 (1.63%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.09%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.09%) SAN
6 2 (1.09%) VSAN
7 1 (0.54%) Intranet
7 1 (0.54%) MPLS
7 1 (0.54%) SDH
7 1 (0.54%) VLAN
7 1 (0.54%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.09%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (1.09%) GIS
1 2 (1.09%) Oracle BI Publisher
1 2 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
1 2 (1.09%) Power BI
1 2 (1.09%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.09%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.54%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (0.54%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.54%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 34 (18.48%) JIRA
2 30 (16.30%) Git
3 16 (8.70%) Bitbucket
3 16 (8.70%) Jenkins
4 12 (6.52%) Selenium
5 7 (3.80%) SonarQube
6 6 (3.26%) Postman
7 4 (2.17%) Cypress.io
7 4 (2.17%) HP UFT
7 4 (2.17%) JMeter
7 4 (2.17%) LoadRunner
7 4 (2.17%) TestComplete
8 3 (1.63%) SoapUI
9 2 (1.09%) Cucumber
9 2 (1.09%) MSTest
9 2 (1.09%) NSubstitute
9 2 (1.09%) NUnit
9 2 (1.09%) Oracle Forms
9 2 (1.09%) SpecFlow
9 2 (1.09%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 74 (40.22%) Social Skills
2 47 (25.54%) Finance
3 45 (24.46%) Analytical Skills
4 30 (16.30%) Public Sector
5 15 (8.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (3.80%) Manufacturing
7 6 (3.26%) Legal
7 6 (3.26%) Local Government
7 6 (3.26%) Marketing
7 6 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (2.17%) Banking
9 4 (2.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.63%) Electronics
10 3 (1.63%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.09%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.09%) Front Office
11 2 (1.09%) Retail
12 1 (0.54%) Billing
12 1 (0.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 40 (21.74%) Consultant
2 28 (15.22%) Analyst
3 18 (9.78%) Tester
4 14 (7.61%) Developer
4 14 (7.61%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 13 (7.07%) Business Analyst
5 13 (7.07%) Lead
5 13 (7.07%) SAP Consultant
6 10 (5.43%) Senior
7 9 (4.89%) Development Consultant
8 8 (4.35%) Test Analyst
9 7 (3.80%) HR Consultant
9 7 (3.80%) Project Manager
9 7 (3.80%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Automation Tester
10 6 (3.26%) Electrical Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.26%) Payroll Consultant
11 5 (2.72%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (9.24%) .NET
2 15 (8.15%) SOAP
3 14 (7.61%) Flash
4 13 (7.07%) REST
5 8 (4.35%) CSS
5 8 (4.35%) HTML
6 7 (3.80%) Playwright
7 6 (3.26%) React
8 5 (2.72%) Spine.js
9 4 (2.17%) Middleware
10 3 (1.63%) Jest
10 3 (1.63%) Material-UI
10 3 (1.63%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (1.09%) Gherkin
11 2 (1.09%) GraphQL
11 2 (1.09%) PySpark
12 1 (0.54%) SAP Fiori
12 1 (0.54%) SAPUI5
12 1 (0.54%) Visualforce
12 1 (0.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.61%) Clustering
2 9 (4.89%) PKI
3 8 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 7 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 6 (3.26%) Legacy Systems
6 5 (2.72%) Cyberattack
6 5 (2.72%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.17%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.63%) Data Structures
8 3 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (1.63%) Equities
8 3 (1.63%) Fixed Income
8 3 (1.63%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.63%) Replication
8 3 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.63%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 2 (1.09%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.09%) PMI
9 2 (1.09%) SCADA
9 2 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.22%) Windows
2 20 (10.87%) Windows Server
3 15 (8.15%) Linux
4 8 (4.35%) Windows 10
5 7 (3.80%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (1.63%) Unix
6 3 (1.63%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (34.24%) Agile
2 50 (27.17%) Problem-Solving
2 50 (27.17%) Validation
3 47 (25.54%) User Acceptance Testing
4 41 (22.28%) Service Management
5 34 (18.48%) DevOps
5 34 (18.48%) Test Automation
6 33 (17.93%) NsoIT
7 27 (14.67%) Integration Testing
8 24 (13.04%) Computer Science
9 22 (11.96%) Software Testing
9 22 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
10 21 (11.41%) Critical Thinking
11 20 (10.87%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 20 (10.87%) Test Scripting
12 19 (10.33%) Decision-Making
13 18 (9.78%) Configuration Management
13 18 (9.78%) Migration
13 18 (9.78%) Software Engineering
13 18 (9.78%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.28%) Python
2 33 (17.93%) SQL
3 21 (11.41%) Java
4 18 (9.78%) JavaScript
5 17 (9.24%) PowerShell
6 14 (7.61%) C#
7 13 (7.07%) Bash
8 7 (3.80%) Go
9 6 (3.26%) TypeScript
10 3 (1.63%) ABAP
10 3 (1.63%) C
10 3 (1.63%) PL/SQL
10 3 (1.63%) Tcl
10 3 (1.63%) VBA
11 2 (1.09%) Perl
12 1 (0.54%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.54%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 64 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 56 (30.43%) SC Cleared
3 43 (23.37%) Degree
4 29 (15.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (14.67%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (9.24%) CCNP
7 15 (8.15%) Master's Degree
8 12 (6.52%) CCNA
9 10 (5.43%) DV Cleared
10 9 (4.89%) OCA
10 9 (4.89%) Oracle Certification
10 9 (4.89%) RHCA
10 9 (4.89%) RHCE
11 7 (3.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 7 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
12 6 (3.26%) MCSE
13 5 (2.72%) ISTQB
14 4 (2.17%) PMI Certification
14 4 (2.17%) SAP Certification
15 3 (1.63%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (6.52%) QA
2 4 (2.17%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.09%) PMO
5 1 (0.54%) Basel III
5 1 (0.54%) GDPR
5 1 (0.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.54%) MiFID
5 1 (0.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.54%) SLA
5 1 (0.54%) UCITS
System Software
1 29 (15.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (7.61%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (7.61%) VMware NSX
3 7 (3.80%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.63%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.63%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.54%) Docker
5 1 (0.54%) Firmware
5 1 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (15.22%) vCenter Server
2 17 (9.24%) Ansible
3 10 (5.43%) Progress Chef
3 10 (5.43%) Puppet
4 8 (4.35%) Kubernetes
5 7 (3.80%) WSUS
6 3 (1.63%) HP ALM
7 2 (1.09%) SCOM
8 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.54%) OPNET
Vendors
1 31 (16.85%) Cisco
2 29 (15.76%) VMware
3 27 (14.67%) SAP
4 25 (13.59%) Microsoft
5 24 (13.04%) Atlassian
6 23 (12.50%) Oracle
7 9 (4.89%) NEC
8 8 (4.35%) OpenAI
8 8 (4.35%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.72%) Bloomberg
10 4 (2.17%) Proofpoint
10 4 (2.17%) Reuters
11 3 (1.63%) HP
11 3 (1.63%) Salesforce
11 3 (1.63%) SimCorp
11 3 (1.63%) Veeam
11 3 (1.63%) Workday
12 2 (1.09%) Databricks
12 2 (1.09%) EMC
13 1 (0.54%) Snow