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 25 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 359 419 489
Rank change year-on-year +60 +70 -53
Contract jobs citing System Testing 41 63 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.23% 0.25% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.28% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 55 75
10th Percentile £311 £305 £413
25th Percentile £363 £413 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £594 £703 £701
90th Percentile £638 £760 £838
England median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.43 -
% change year-on-year -39.01% - -

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 15,607 22,862 35,495
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.27% 90.90% 92.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,159 16,574 26,061
10th Percentile £340 £375 £394
25th Percentile £445 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £588 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.38% +2.17% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £780
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 315 267 388
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.00 £17.09
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £39.42 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.90% +9.50% +9.59%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.50 £50.83
90th Percentile £67.60 £82.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

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 25 June 2024.

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 25 June 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
Central London +28 6 £450 -27.42%
South London +10 2 £425 -
East London -4 1 £435 -20.91% 1
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 2 (4.88%) CMS
2 1 (2.44%) SAS
2 1 (2.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (12.20%) Markit EDM
2 4 (9.76%) thinkFolio
3 2 (4.88%) Loan IQ
4 1 (2.44%) SAP CO
4 1 (2.44%) SAP FI
4 1 (2.44%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (2.44%) SAP LE
4 1 (2.44%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (2.44%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.32%) OCI
2 2 (4.88%) AWS
2 2 (4.88%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (4.88%) WhatsApp
3 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.44%) Boomi
3 1 (2.44%) PaaS
3 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.76%) RDBMS
1 4 (9.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.44%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Database
2 1 (2.44%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (2.44%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) JIRA
2 5 (12.20%) Selenium
3 2 (4.88%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.44%) Appium
4 1 (2.44%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.44%) ClearQuest
4 1 (2.44%) Gerrit
4 1 (2.44%) Git
4 1 (2.44%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.44%) JMeter
4 1 (2.44%) JUnit
4 1 (2.44%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.44%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.44%) Postman
4 1 (2.44%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.44%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (2.44%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.44%) TestNG
4 1 (2.44%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (34.15%) Finance
2 11 (26.83%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (26.83%) Social Skills
3 10 (24.39%) Back Office
4 6 (14.63%) Front Office
5 3 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.88%) General Ledger
6 2 (4.88%) Local Government
6 2 (4.88%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
7 1 (2.44%) Banking
7 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.44%) Law
7 1 (2.44%) Military
Job Titles
1 18 (43.90%) Analyst
2 6 (14.63%) Applications Support
2 6 (14.63%) Test Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Consultant
3 5 (12.20%) Senior
3 5 (12.20%) Support Analyst
3 5 (12.20%) Tester
4 4 (9.76%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) Developer
4 4 (9.76%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) thinkFolio Analyst
4 4 (9.76%) thinkFolio Support
5 3 (7.32%) Oracle Consultant
5 3 (7.32%) Senior Test Analyst
5 3 (7.32%) Systems Tester
6 2 (4.88%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Cloud Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Functional Consultant
6 2 (4.88%) Murex Analyst
6 2 (4.88%) Project Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.76%) JSON
1 4 (9.76%) XML
2 1 (2.44%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (2.44%) PySpark
2 1 (2.44%) pytest
2 1 (2.44%) REST
2 1 (2.44%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.76%) Derivative
1 4 (9.76%) Equities
1 4 (9.76%) Fixed Income
1 4 (9.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (9.76%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (4.88%) CCTV
2 2 (4.88%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (4.88%) Mobile App
2 2 (4.88%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.44%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) NHS
3 1 (2.44%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.44%) Replication
3 1 (2.44%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (14.63%) Linux
2 5 (12.20%) Unix
3 4 (9.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (31.71%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (29.27%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (26.83%) Agile
3 11 (26.83%) Migration
3 11 (26.83%) Test Automation
4 10 (24.39%) Integration Testing
5 7 (17.07%) Scrum
6 6 (14.63%) Manual Testing
6 6 (14.63%) Validation
7 5 (12.20%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (9.76%) Asset Management
8 4 (9.76%) Batch Scheduling
8 4 (9.76%) Data Integration
8 4 (9.76%) Data Management
8 4 (9.76%) Investment Management
8 4 (9.76%) Performance Analysis
8 4 (9.76%) Project Management
8 4 (9.76%) Risk Management
8 4 (9.76%) System Integration Testing
9 3 (7.32%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (24.39%) SQL
2 4 (9.76%) Java
2 4 (9.76%) T-SQL
3 3 (7.32%) Python
4 1 (2.44%) C
4 1 (2.44%) C#
4 1 (2.44%) C++
4 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 5 (12.20%) Degree
2 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
2 4 (9.76%) Security Cleared
3 2 (4.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.44%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.44%) ISEB
4 1 (2.44%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.44%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (9.76%) Accessibility
1 4 (9.76%) ISO 15022
1 4 (9.76%) QA
2 2 (4.88%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.44%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (9.76%) Control-M
2 1 (2.44%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 9 (21.95%) Microsoft
1 9 (21.95%) Oracle
2 4 (9.76%) SAP
3 2 (4.88%) HP
3 2 (4.88%) Murex
3 2 (4.88%) Panasonic
3 2 (4.88%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.44%) Avaloq
4 1 (2.44%) Dell
4 1 (2.44%) IBM
4 1 (2.44%) Sparx