System Testing Contract Job Trends in Essex

System Testing
East of England > Essex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Essex requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Essex 4.20% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.81% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £621 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £662 - -
75th Percentile £687 - -
90th Percentile £695 - -
East of England median daily rate £541 £225 £475
% change year-on-year +140.22% -52.63% -5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Essex

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 Essex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 86 68 159
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex 72.27% 79.07% 83.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 36 101
10th Percentile £185 £171 £180
25th Percentile £275 £213 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £317 £450
Median % change year-on-year +34.28% -29.67% -
75th Percentile £514 £539 £571
90th Percentile £600 £600 £600
East of England median daily rate £484 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 2 17
10th Percentile £13.36 £12.00 £16.75
25th Percentile - £13.33 £20.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £15.61 £40.31
Median % change year-on-year +20.88% -61.28% +61.24%
75th Percentile £23.58 £17.83 £55.50
90th Percentile £66.87 £19.13 £71.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.88 £28.34 £22.00
% change year-on-year -26.33% +28.80% -2.22%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Essex

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Essex.

System Testing job vacancy trend in Essex

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing System Testing

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Essex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing System Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Essex citing System Testing

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Essex

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 Essex region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
Basildon - 2 £691 -
Chelmsford - 1 - -
System Testing
East of England

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Essex 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 4 (80.00%) SAS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
General
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (80.00%) Finance
1 4 (80.00%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Developer/Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Python Software Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) R Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Developer
3 1 (20.00%) SAS Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Analytical Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) Credit Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (80.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) Risk Management
1 4 (80.00%) Scorecard
1 4 (80.00%) Test Strategy
1 4 (80.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Software Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 1 (20.00%) CRM
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Statistics
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
1 4 (80.00%) Python
1 4 (80.00%) R
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Degree