System Testing Contracts in the North of England

System Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 152 164 215
Rank change year-on-year +12 +51 +2
Contract jobs citing System Testing 14 21 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.42% 0.44% 0.086%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% 0.51% 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 19 2
10th Percentile £431 £426 -
25th Percentile £455 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £544 - £525
90th Percentile £589 £575 -
England median daily rate £575 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,089 5,288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 90.02% 85.76% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,908 2,506 3,674
10th Percentile £263 £300 £302
25th Percentile £378 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 355 207
10th Percentile £13.83 £11.03 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £12.45 £15.25
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.50 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +64.29% -36.82% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.76 £44.41 £45.05
90th Percentile £82.56 £53.90 £65.00
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 the North of England

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England 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
North West +17 13 £514 +2.80% 22
Yorkshire +1 1 £425 -19.05% 3
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) SAP EWM
1 2 (14.29%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) SAP HR
2 1 (7.14%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
1 4 (28.57%) JMeter
1 4 (28.57%) LoadRunner
1 4 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Local Government
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Tester
2 4 (28.57%) Software Tester
3 3 (21.43%) Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
4 2 (14.29%) SAP EWM Consultant
5 1 (7.14%) Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Development Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) HR Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) HR Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SAP Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SAP HR Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) SAP HR Business Analyst
5 1 (7.14%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (7.14%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Onboarding
2 2 (14.29%) Virtual Team
3 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
3 1 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.14%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (57.14%) System Integration Testing
2 8 (57.14%) Test Automation
3 6 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (42.86%) Process Improvement
4 5 (35.71%) Integration Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Validation
5 4 (28.57%) Agile
5 4 (28.57%) Black-Box Testing
5 4 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 4 (28.57%) Data Validation
5 4 (28.57%) DevOps
5 4 (28.57%) Manual Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Programme Delivery
5 4 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
5 4 (28.57%) SDLC
5 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 4 (28.57%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (35.71%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) COBOL
2 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) CIPD
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) SAP
2 4 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Oracle