System Testing Contracts in England

System Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 428 440 556
Rank change year-on-year +12 +116 -70
Contract jobs citing System Testing 110 213 238
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.43% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.47% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 166 169
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £600
90th Percentile £641 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +23.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £45.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.13 £25.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.82% +57.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £60.63 £43.38
90th Percentile - £62.50 £48.40
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year -61.82% +22.71% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

System Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 4 May 2024.

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
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 4 May 2024. 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 +52 32 £435 -19.07% 24
North of England +41 21 £500 - 7
South West -8 21 £525 -9.44% 22
Midlands +25 17 £463 +28.47% 21
South East 0 15 £600 +15.66% 20
North West +31 13 £500 - 5
West Midlands +16 11 £500 +29.87% 14
Yorkshire +24 8 £525 +5.00% 2
East Midlands +28 6 £363 +0.69% 7
East of England +8 5 £400 -20.00% 8
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 8 (7.27%) Confluence
2 2 (1.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.91%) SAS
3 1 (0.91%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.91%) Skype for Business
3 1 (0.91%) WebLogic
Applications
1 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.91%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (10.91%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.73%) Markit EDM
3 2 (1.82%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.82%) thinkFolio
4 1 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.91%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.91%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.91%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.91%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.09%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (8.18%) Azure
3 5 (4.55%) AWS
3 5 (4.55%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 4 (3.64%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 4 (3.64%) Azure Key Vault
4 4 (3.64%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (3.64%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.73%) Apigee
5 3 (2.73%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.73%) Veeva
6 2 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (1.82%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.91%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (0.91%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.91%) Boomi
7 1 (0.91%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.91%) OCI
7 1 (0.91%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.55%) VSAN
2 3 (2.73%) SSL
3 2 (1.82%) 4G
3 2 (1.82%) 5G
3 2 (1.82%) Network Security
3 2 (1.82%) VoIP
4 1 (0.91%) DHCP
4 1 (0.91%) DNS
4 1 (0.91%) LAN
4 1 (0.91%) Skype
4 1 (0.91%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.55%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.64%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.64%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.73%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.82%) Power BI
4 2 (1.82%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.91%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.91%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.91%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 15 (13.64%) JIRA
2 6 (5.45%) Git
3 5 (4.55%) Selenium
4 4 (3.64%) Ant
4 4 (3.64%) Jenkins
4 4 (3.64%) JUnit
5 3 (2.73%) gulp
5 3 (2.73%) Maven
6 2 (1.82%) SpecFlow
6 2 (1.82%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.91%) Appium
7 1 (0.91%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.91%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.91%) Postman
7 1 (0.91%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.91%) Rational Performance Tester
7 1 (0.91%) REST Assured
7 1 (0.91%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.91%) TestNG
7 1 (0.91%) Zephyr
General
1 33 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (24.55%) Social Skills
3 23 (20.91%) Finance
4 12 (10.91%) Marketing
5 11 (10.00%) Public Sector
6 7 (6.36%) Back Office
7 5 (4.55%) Military
8 4 (3.64%) Automotive
8 4 (3.64%) Front Office
9 3 (2.73%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.73%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.82%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.82%) Retail
10 2 (1.82%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.91%) Banking
11 1 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.91%) Law
11 1 (0.91%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 31 (28.18%) Analyst
2 21 (19.09%) Consultant
3 17 (15.45%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 14 (12.73%) Developer
5 12 (10.91%) Test Analyst
6 11 (10.00%) Lead
7 9 (8.18%) Test Engineer
8 8 (7.27%) Designer
8 8 (7.27%) SQL Developer
9 7 (6.36%) Senior
9 7 (6.36%) Tester
10 5 (4.55%) Business Analyst
10 5 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Integration Engineer
10 5 (4.55%) Lead Designer
10 5 (4.55%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (4.55%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 4 (3.64%) Functional Consultant
11 4 (3.64%) Oracle Analyst
11 4 (3.64%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.27%) Node.js
2 6 (5.45%) CSS
2 6 (5.45%) HTML
3 5 (4.55%) AngularJS
3 5 (4.55%) Flash
4 4 (3.64%) JSON
4 4 (3.64%) XML
5 3 (2.73%) .NET
5 3 (2.73%) Gherkin
5 3 (2.73%) OAuth
5 3 (2.73%) OpenID
5 3 (2.73%) REST
5 3 (2.73%) RESTful
5 3 (2.73%) SAML
6 1 (0.91%) Middleware
6 1 (0.91%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.91%) Playwright
6 1 (0.91%) PySpark
6 1 (0.91%) pytest
6 1 (0.91%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (11.82%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (5.45%) Management Information System
2 6 (5.45%) Onboarding
2 6 (5.45%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.55%) Clustering
3 5 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 4 (3.64%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 2 (1.82%) CCTV
5 2 (1.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.82%) Derivative
5 2 (1.82%) Equities
5 2 (1.82%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.82%) Life Science
5 2 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.91%) EPoS
6 1 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.91%) PKI
6 1 (0.91%) Replication
6 1 (0.91%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.82%) Unix
2 8 (7.27%) Linux
3 7 (6.36%) Windows
4 3 (2.73%) Android
4 3 (2.73%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.91%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.91%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.91%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.91%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.36%) Agile
2 34 (30.91%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (30.91%) User Acceptance Testing
3 28 (25.45%) Migration
4 22 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 22 (20.00%) Scrum
4 22 (20.00%) Software Testing
5 21 (19.09%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.36%) Data Migration
6 18 (16.36%) Integration Testing
7 15 (13.64%) Validation
8 13 (11.82%) Translating Business Requirements
8 13 (11.82%) Unit Testing
9 12 (10.91%) CRM
9 12 (10.91%) Test Scripting
10 11 (10.00%) Customer Experience
10 11 (10.00%) Customer Insight
10 11 (10.00%) Manual Testing
11 10 (9.09%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (9.09%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 18 (16.36%) SQL
2 11 (10.00%) Java
3 10 (9.09%) JavaScript
4 7 (6.36%) Bash
4 7 (6.36%) Bourne shell
4 7 (6.36%) Korn
4 7 (6.36%) PL/SQL
5 6 (5.45%) Python
6 5 (4.55%) PHP
7 4 (3.64%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.73%) C#
8 3 (2.73%) C++
9 2 (1.82%) C
10 1 (0.91%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.91%) VBA
Qualifications
1 19 (17.27%) Security Cleared
2 18 (16.36%) SC Cleared
3 15 (13.64%) Degree
4 6 (5.45%) BPSS Clearance
4 6 (5.45%) CCNA
4 6 (5.45%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (5.45%) ISTQB
4 6 (5.45%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (4.55%) Master's Degree
5 5 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (3.64%) Chartered Engineer
7 2 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.91%) CCNP
8 1 (0.91%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.91%) ISEB
8 1 (0.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.91%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.91%) MCSE
8 1 (0.91%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.09%) QA
2 4 (3.64%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.64%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.73%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.82%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.91%) IFRS
5 1 (0.91%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (5.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.91%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.91%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 1 (0.91%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (4.55%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.73%) Ansible
3 2 (1.82%) Control-M
4 1 (0.91%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.91%) SCCM
4 1 (0.91%) SCOM
4 1 (0.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 20 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 17 (15.45%) Oracle
3 6 (5.45%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.45%) Cisco
3 6 (5.45%) VMware
4 5 (4.55%) SAP
5 3 (2.73%) Google
6 2 (1.82%) HP
6 2 (1.82%) Murex
6 2 (1.82%) Panasonic
6 2 (1.82%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.91%) Avaya
7 1 (0.91%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.91%) Dell
7 1 (0.91%) Genesys
7 1 (0.91%) IBM
7 1 (0.91%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.91%) Remedy
7 1 (0.91%) Siemens
7 1 (0.91%) Veeam