System Testing Contracts in London

System Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 284 357 408
Rank change year-on-year +73 +51 +90
Contract jobs citing System Testing 69 34 85
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.55% 0.19% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.22% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 22 71
10th Percentile £400 £358 £313
25th Percentile £450 £375 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £443 £538
Median % change year-on-year +35.59% -17.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £529 £697
90th Percentile £706 £582 £813
England median daily rate £575 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
South London +14 9 £600 +41.18% 1
Central London +9 8 £500 +17.65% 5
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (1.45%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (13.04%) NEC Housing
2 4 (5.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (4.35%) SAP MM
3 3 (4.35%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (2.90%) Aladdin
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (2.90%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (2.90%) SAP MDG
4 2 (2.90%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (1.45%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle E-Business Tax
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle FAH
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (1.45%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (1.45%) SAP CRM
5 1 (1.45%) SAP Payroll
5 1 (1.45%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.84%) Azure
2 10 (14.49%) AWS
3 8 (11.59%) GCP
4 7 (10.14%) OpenShift
5 4 (5.80%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.35%) OCI
6 3 (4.35%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.35%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.45%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.45%) IaaS
7 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.45%) PaaS
7 1 (1.45%) SaaS
7 1 (1.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (1.45%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) MPLS
1 1 (1.45%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.45%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.45%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (1.45%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.45%) Power BI
1 1 (1.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.04%) Git
2 7 (10.14%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.14%) Selenium
2 7 (10.14%) SonarQube
3 4 (5.80%) Cypress.io
3 4 (5.80%) HP UFT
3 4 (5.80%) JIRA
3 4 (5.80%) TestComplete
4 3 (4.35%) Postman
5 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.90%) MSTest
5 2 (2.90%) NSubstitute
5 2 (2.90%) NUnit
5 2 (2.90%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 1 (1.45%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.45%) TestRail
General
1 35 (50.72%) Finance
2 33 (47.83%) Social Skills
3 15 (21.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 7 (10.14%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.70%) Legal
5 6 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.80%) Banking
7 3 (4.35%) Marketing
7 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.90%) Front Office
8 2 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.45%) Billing
9 1 (1.45%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.45%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.45%) Law
9 1 (1.45%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.45%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.45%) Publishing
9 1 (1.45%) Retail
9 1 (1.45%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (36.23%) Consultant
2 18 (26.09%) Analyst
3 9 (13.04%) Business Analyst
3 9 (13.04%) Development Consultant
3 9 (13.04%) Lead
4 7 (10.14%) Project Manager
4 7 (10.14%) Tester
5 6 (8.70%) Developer
5 6 (8.70%) SAP Consultant
6 5 (7.25%) Business Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Business Project Manager
6 5 (7.25%) Project Analyst
6 5 (7.25%) Technical Leader
6 5 (7.25%) Test Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Automation Test Analyst
7 4 (5.80%) Automation Tester
7 4 (5.80%) Java Automation Tester
7 4 (5.80%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
8 3 (4.35%) Architect
8 3 (4.35%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.59%) .NET
2 5 (7.25%) Playwright
2 5 (7.25%) React
3 4 (5.80%) Middleware
4 3 (4.35%) Material-UI
4 3 (4.35%) REST
4 3 (4.35%) SOAP
5 2 (2.90%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.90%) Jest
6 1 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.45%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (1.45%) SAP Fiori
6 1 (1.45%) SAPUI5
6 1 (1.45%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.45%) Web Services
6 1 (1.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.14%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.35%) Data Structures
2 3 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (4.35%) Equities
2 3 (4.35%) Fixed Income
3 2 (2.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.90%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (2.90%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (2.90%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.45%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.45%) NHS
4 1 (1.45%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.45%) PMI
4 1 (1.45%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.45%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.25%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Linux
2 1 (1.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
1 21 (30.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (26.09%) Test Automation
3 16 (23.19%) Agile
3 16 (23.19%) Stakeholder Management
4 15 (21.74%) DevOps
5 11 (15.94%) Decision-Making
5 11 (15.94%) Integration Testing
5 11 (15.94%) Open Source
6 10 (14.49%) Service Delivery
7 9 (13.04%) Business Analysis
7 9 (13.04%) Data Protection
7 9 (13.04%) Requirements Workshops
7 9 (13.04%) Software Engineering
7 9 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 9 (13.04%) Test Scripting
8 8 (11.59%) Configuration Management
8 8 (11.59%) Mentoring
9 7 (10.14%) Continuous Integration
9 7 (10.14%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (21.74%) Python
2 13 (18.84%) Java
3 9 (13.04%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.14%) Go
5 6 (8.70%) C#
6 4 (5.80%) SQL
7 3 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 2 (2.90%) ABAP
9 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
9 1 (1.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 15 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 8 (11.59%) Degree
2 8 (11.59%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.70%) DV Cleared
4 3 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.35%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.90%) PMP
6 1 (1.45%) CFA
6 1 (1.45%) HNC
6 1 (1.45%) HND
6 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.45%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) QA
2 3 (4.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.90%) PMO
4 1 (1.45%) Basel III
4 1 (1.45%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.45%) MiFID
4 1 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.45%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.45%) Docker
1 1 (1.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.14%) Ansible
3 3 (4.35%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 10 (14.49%) SAP
2 9 (13.04%) NEC
3 5 (7.25%) Bloomberg
3 5 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.25%) Oracle
4 4 (5.80%) Reuters
5 3 (4.35%) HP
5 3 (4.35%) ServiceNow
5 3 (4.35%) SimCorp
6 2 (2.90%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.90%) Workday
7 1 (1.45%) Advent
7 1 (1.45%) Ericsson
7 1 (1.45%) Google
7 1 (1.45%) Hitachi
7 1 (1.45%) JDA
7 1 (1.45%) Murex
7 1 (1.45%) Nokia
7 1 (1.45%) OpenText
7 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud