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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 362 415
Rank change year-on-year +86 +53 +72
Contract jobs citing System Testing 65 35 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.20% 0.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.23% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 24 65
10th Percentile £400 £358 £305
25th Percentile £484 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £443 £538
Median % change year-on-year +44.07% -17.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £716 £544 £688
90th Percentile £739 £638 £783
England median daily rate £563 £520 £530
% change year-on-year +8.17% -1.89% +4.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £43.75
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £51.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £21.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +161.90% -61.82% +57.14%

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 11,187 15,413 23,359
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.22% 88.53% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,539 11,060 16,862
10th Percentile £350 £343 £375
25th Percentile £431 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £593
Median % change year-on-year - -7.17% +3.04%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 306 269
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.72 £18.40
25th Percentile £23.75 £20.00 £22.50
Median hourly rate £31.35 £27.83 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.65% -28.65% +7.11%
75th Percentile £49.75 £48.75 £64.25
90th Percentile £63.45 £66.88 £82.60
England median hourly rate £28.08 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -23.08% -2.67% +50.00%

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 23 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 23 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
Central London +14 12 £700 +64.71% 12
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 (1.54%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.15%) Aladdin
2 3 (4.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (4.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Financials
3 2 (3.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (3.08%) SAP MDG
3 2 (3.08%) SAP MM
3 2 (3.08%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (1.54%) Bloomberg AIM
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle E-Business Tax
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle FAH
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.54%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (1.54%) SAP CRM
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Payroll
4 1 (1.54%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 13 (20.00%) Azure
2 10 (15.38%) AWS
3 8 (12.31%) GCP
4 7 (10.77%) OpenShift
5 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.62%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (4.62%) OCI
6 3 (4.62%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.62%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (1.54%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.54%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (1.54%) IaaS
8 1 (1.54%) PaaS
8 1 (1.54%) SaaS
8 1 (1.54%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) MPLS
1 1 (1.54%) SDH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.54%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.54%) Power BI
1 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (13.85%) Git
2 7 (10.77%) Jenkins
2 7 (10.77%) Selenium
2 7 (10.77%) SonarQube
3 4 (6.15%) Cypress.io
3 4 (6.15%) HP UFT
3 4 (6.15%) JIRA
3 4 (6.15%) TestComplete
4 3 (4.62%) Postman
5 2 (3.08%) Bitbucket
5 2 (3.08%) MSTest
5 2 (3.08%) NSubstitute
5 2 (3.08%) NUnit
5 2 (3.08%) Visual Studio Coded UI
6 1 (1.54%) SoapUI
6 1 (1.54%) TestRail
General
1 37 (56.92%) Social Skills
2 31 (47.69%) Finance
3 8 (12.31%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.77%) Legal
5 6 (9.23%) Front Office
5 6 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (7.69%) Banking
6 5 (7.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.54%) Billing
8 1 (1.54%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.54%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.54%) Marketing
8 1 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.54%) Retail
8 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (33.85%) Analyst
2 19 (29.23%) Consultant
3 14 (21.54%) Lead
4 13 (20.00%) Business Analyst
5 8 (12.31%) Project Manager
6 7 (10.77%) Tester
7 5 (7.69%) Business Manager
7 5 (7.69%) Business Project Manager
7 5 (7.69%) Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Project Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (7.69%) Technical Leader
7 5 (7.69%) Test Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Architect
8 4 (6.15%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (6.15%) Automation Tester
8 4 (6.15%) Java Automation Tester
8 4 (6.15%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
9 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.77%) .NET
2 5 (7.69%) Playwright
2 5 (7.69%) React
3 3 (4.62%) Material-UI
3 3 (4.62%) Middleware
3 3 (4.62%) REST
4 2 (3.08%) GraphQL
4 2 (3.08%) Jest
4 2 (3.08%) SOAP
5 1 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (1.54%) SAP Fiori
5 1 (1.54%) SAPUI5
5 1 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.77%) Public Cloud
2 3 (4.62%) Equities
2 3 (4.62%) Fixed Income
3 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
3 2 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (3.08%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (3.08%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (3.08%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 2 (3.08%) Team-Oriented Environment
3 2 (3.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.54%) NHS
4 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.54%) PMI
4 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.54%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (1.54%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (32.31%) Agile
1 21 (32.31%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (27.69%) Test Automation
3 15 (23.08%) Business Analysis
4 13 (20.00%) DevOps
5 12 (18.46%) Integration Testing
6 11 (16.92%) Open Source
6 11 (16.92%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (16.92%) Validation
7 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.85%) Asset Management
8 9 (13.85%) Change Management
8 9 (13.85%) Project Management
8 9 (13.85%) Software Testing
8 9 (13.85%) Test Scripting
9 8 (12.31%) Configuration Management
9 8 (12.31%) Scrum
9 8 (12.31%) Software Engineering
10 7 (10.77%) Continuous Integration
10 7 (10.77%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.08%) Python
2 13 (20.00%) Java
3 8 (12.31%) JavaScript
4 7 (10.77%) Go
5 6 (9.23%) SQL
6 5 (7.69%) C#
7 3 (4.62%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.08%) ABAP
9 1 (1.54%) VBA
Qualifications
1 14 (21.54%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.77%) SC Cleared
3 6 (9.23%) DV Cleared
4 5 (7.69%) Degree
5 4 (6.15%) PMI Certification
6 3 (4.62%) PMP
7 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.54%) CFA
8 1 (1.54%) HNC
8 1 (1.54%) HND
8 1 (1.54%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.54%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 5 (7.69%) MiFID
3 4 (6.15%) EMIR
4 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.08%) PMO
5 1 (1.54%) Basel III
5 1 (1.54%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.54%) UCITS
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
1 1 (1.54%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 8 (12.31%) Kubernetes
2 7 (10.77%) Ansible
3 3 (4.62%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
1 9 (13.85%) SAP
2 5 (7.69%) Bloomberg
2 5 (7.69%) Oracle
3 4 (6.15%) Reuters
3 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
3 4 (6.15%) SimCorp
4 3 (4.62%) HP
5 2 (3.08%) Charles River
5 2 (3.08%) Workday
6 1 (1.54%) Advent
6 1 (1.54%) Ericsson
6 1 (1.54%) Google
6 1 (1.54%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.54%) JDA
6 1 (1.54%) Murex
6 1 (1.54%) Nokia
6 1 (1.54%) Salesforce