System Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

System Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 79 34 -
Rank change year-on-year -45 - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.71% 0.34% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.84% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £250 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.00% - -
England median daily rate £460 £569 £525
% change year-on-year -19.12% +8.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £31.25 - -
Median hourly rate £32.50 - -
75th Percentile £33.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.72 £55.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -60.51% +22.22% +88.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 712 243 248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.96% 83.79% 89.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 137 105
10th Percentile £313 £215 £289
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% -2.11% +5.56%
75th Percentile £557 £569 £600
90th Percentile £650 £625 £731
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 17 35
10th Percentile £14.00 £11.60 £13.75
25th Percentile £31.89 £13.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £43.96 £17.30 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -41.89% +48.85%
75th Percentile £70.00 £20.63 £46.18
90th Percentile - £42.40 £70.00
England median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -3.37%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing System Testing

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing System Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing System Testing

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -35 5 - - 4
Durham - 1 £525 - 1
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
1 4 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 4 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
General
1 4 (66.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Developer
1 4 (66.67%) Robotic Process Automation Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Commissioning Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Integration Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (66.67%) .NET
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
1 5 (83.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) API Integration
2 4 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (66.67%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (66.67%) Robotic Process Automation
2 4 (66.67%) SDLC
2 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (66.67%) Unit Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Cleansing
3 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
3 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
3 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) C#
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 4 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) UiPath
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle