System Testing Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

System Testing
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne citing System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Rank	64	43	-
Rank change year-on-year	-21	-	-
Contract jobs citing System Testing	7	1	0
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne	1.20%	0.35%	-
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.38%	0.38%	-
Number of daily rates quoted	3	1	0
10^th Percentile	£393	-	-
25^th Percentile	£456	-	-
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£575	£250	-
Median % change year-on-year	+130.00%	-	-
75^th Percentile	£588	-	-
90^th Percentile	-	-	-
Tyne and Wear median daily rate	£575	£250	-
% change year-on-year	+130.00%	-	-

All Process & Methodology Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 citing process or methodology skills in Newcastle upon Tyne.

	6 months to 15 Nov 2026	Same period 2025	Same period 2024
Contract vacancies citing process or methodology skills	508	260	171
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne	86.99%	90.91%	93.44%
Number of daily rates quoted	297	172	79
10^th Percentile	£313	£170	£304
25^th Percentile	£363	£361	£360
Median daily rate (50^th Percentile)	£450	£450	£450
Median % change year-on-year	-	-	-7.22%
75^th Percentile	£575	£538	£580
90^th Percentile	£625	£600	£664
Tyne and Wear median daily rate	£450	£450	£450
% change year-on-year	-	-	-5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted	62	16	20
10^th Percentile	£35.90	£14.13	£13.75
25^th Percentile	£43.96	£17.23	£15.44
Median hourly rate	£70.00	£19.25	£17.50
Median % change year-on-year	+263.64%	+10.00%	-10.26%
75^th Percentile	-	£52.06	£50.00
90^th Percentile	£76.53	£53.75	£70.00
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate	£58.75	£19.25	£17.50
% change year-on-year	+205.19%	+10.00%	-7.89%

System Testing Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

System Testing Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing System Testing.

System Testing Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 15 November 2026.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in Newcastle upon Tyne

System Testing Hourly Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing System Testing.

System Testing Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 15 November 2026, contractor job vacancies citing System Testing also mentioned the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region citing System Testing.

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	SQL	100.0%	7
2	.NET	71.4%	5
2	Agile	71.4%	5
2	API Integration	71.4%	5
2	Azure	71.4%	5
2	Azure DevOps	71.4%	5
2	C#	71.4%	5
2	Continuous Improvement	71.4%	5
2	DevOps	71.4%	5
2	Digital Transformation Programme	71.4%	5
2	Git	71.4%	5
2	Power Platform	71.4%	5
2	Problem-Solving	71.4%	5
2	Robotic Process Automation	71.4%	5
2	SC Cleared	71.4%	5
2	SDLC	71.4%	5
2	Security Cleared	71.4%	5
2	Stakeholder Engagement	71.4%	5
2	UiPath	71.4%	5
2	Unit Testing	71.4%	5
2	User Acceptance Testing	71.4%	5
2	Web Services	71.4%	5
23	AWS	28.6%	2
23	ETL	28.6%	2
23	Functional Testing	28.6%	2
23	Informatica	28.6%	2
23	Non-Functional Testing	28.6%	2
23	Oracle	28.6%	2
23	PowerCenter	28.6%	2

System Testing Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The table below expands on the one above by listing co-occurrences one category at a time. It covers the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences in each category.

Processes & Methodologies

Rank	Skill	Share	Job Ads
1	Agile	71.4%	5
1	API Integration	71.4%	5
1	Continuous Improvement	71.4%	5
1	DevOps	71.4%	5
1	Digital Transformation Programme	71.4%	5
1	Problem-Solving	71.4%	5
1	Robotic Process Automation	71.4%	5
1	SDLC	71.4%	5
1	Stakeholder Engagement	71.4%	5
1	Unit Testing	71.4%	5
1	User Acceptance Testing	71.4%	5
12	ETL	28.6%	2
12	Functional Testing	28.6%	2
12	Non-Functional Testing	28.6%	2