System Testing Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

System Testing
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Lancashire requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Lancashire 1.43% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £675 £463 £500
% change year-on-year +45.95% -7.50% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £81.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £41.86 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 176 116 205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 83.81% 80.56% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 53 119
10th Percentile £165 £262 £375
25th Percentile £363 £406 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £623
Median % change year-on-year -9.00% -19.68% +18.57%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £717
90th Percentile £670 £618 £720
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 20 52
10th Percentile £39.53 £24.65 £20.58
25th Percentile £43.70 £29.36 £45.88
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -1.56% - +15.45%
75th Percentile £69.25 £52.23 £50.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £65.93 £61.37
North West median hourly rate £34.50 £32.01 £35.50
% change year-on-year +7.78% -9.83% +37.54%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in Lancashire

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

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

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

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 Lancashire region over the 6 months to 14 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
Preston - 1 - -
System Testing
North West

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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 1 (33.33%) Apache
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (33.33%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Entra ID
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (33.33%) DB2
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aeronautics
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Design Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Development Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Maximo Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) SailPoint
1 1 (33.33%) SOAP
1 1 (33.33%) Web Services
1 1 (33.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) CAFM
1 1 (33.33%) Coaching
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Facilities Management
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) ITSM
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Physics
1 1 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (33.33%) Project Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Design
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) SysML
1 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) MathWorks