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

6 months to
19 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 164 196 226
Rank change year-on-year +32 +30 -53
Contract jobs citing System Testing 21 6 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.43% 0.11% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.12% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 19
10th Percentile £413 - £139
25th Percentile £481 £475 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +13.33%
75th Percentile £600 £525 £494
90th Percentile - - £540
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 - £21.36 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £34.43 -
% change year-on-year -39.01% - -

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 4,055 4,902 6,324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 83.69% 90.08% 88.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,411 3,372 4,591
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 395 209 251
10th Percentile £11.09 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.75 £13.57
Median hourly rate £21.00 £25.00 £19.09
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +30.96% +7.43%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.39 £34.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £56.38 £63.00
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 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

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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 19 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the North of England

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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 19 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
Yorkshire +25 15 £550 +10.00% 3
North West +19 6 £325 - 14
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) Apigee
1 3 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) BrowserStack
2 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (14.29%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 11 (52.38%) JUnit
2 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
2 3 (14.29%) gulp
2 3 (14.29%) Jenkins
2 3 (14.29%) Maven
3 2 (9.52%) REST Assured
4 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
4 1 (4.76%) Postman
4 1 (4.76%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Consultant
1 6 (28.57%) Test Engineer
2 3 (14.29%) Designer
3 2 (9.52%) Analyst
3 2 (9.52%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (9.52%) Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Apigee Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Automation Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Business Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Developer
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Business Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Java Automation Tester
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) SAP EWM Consultant
4 1 (4.76%) Test Analyst
4 1 (4.76%) Test Scripter
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (52.38%) Gherkin
2 3 (14.29%) .NET
2 3 (14.29%) Node.js
2 3 (14.29%) OAuth
2 3 (14.29%) OpenID
2 3 (14.29%) RESTful
2 3 (14.29%) SAML
3 1 (4.76%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 8 (38.10%) Product Ownership
2 6 (28.57%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (23.81%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (19.05%) Mobile App
5 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (4.76%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Android
1 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Software Testing
2 11 (52.38%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Test Automation
2 11 (52.38%) Test Scripting
2 11 (52.38%) Unit Testing
3 8 (38.10%) Kanban
3 8 (38.10%) Scrum
3 8 (38.10%) Software Delivery
4 7 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (33.33%) Analytics
4 7 (33.33%) API Testing
4 7 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (33.33%) TDD
5 6 (28.57%) Collaborative Culture
5 6 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 6 (28.57%) User Stories
6 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure Automation
7 3 (14.29%) Cost Reduction
7 3 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Key Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (66.67%) Java
2 3 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
1 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (47.62%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 3 (14.29%) Google
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
4 1 (4.76%) Cognizant