System Testing Contracts in the North West

System Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 124 162 170
Rank change year-on-year +38 +8 -37
Contract jobs citing System Testing 13 1 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.48% 0.032% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.035% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 0 9
10th Percentile - - £139
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +33.33%
75th Percentile - - £525
90th Percentile - - £600
England median daily rate £500 £525 £504
% change year-on-year -4.76% +4.22% +18.53%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

System Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,334 2,876 3,562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.19% 90.70% 88.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,042 2,607
10th Percentile £306 £313 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £690 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 246 142 160
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.36 £23.15 £14.19
Median hourly rate £22.31 £36.65 £20.07
Median % change year-on-year -39.14% +82.66% +9.41%
75th Percentile £45.66 £49.52 £42.82
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.98 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -1.75% +52.57% +3.62%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the North West

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the North West

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
Manchester +27 12 £500 - 3
Cheshire - 1 £325 - 1
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 11 (84.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.69%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 11 (84.62%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Postman
1 1 (7.69%) Zephyr
General
1 11 (84.62%) Marketing
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Retail
2 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (92.31%) Consultant
2 11 (84.62%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) SAP EWM Consultant
3 1 (7.69%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (84.62%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (7.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (84.62%) CRM
2 11 (84.62%) Customer Experience
2 11 (84.62%) Customer Insight
2 11 (84.62%) Data Migration
2 11 (84.62%) End-to-End Testing
2 11 (84.62%) Migration
2 11 (84.62%) Translating Business Requirements
2 11 (84.62%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.69%) API Testing
3 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce
3 1 (7.69%) Manual Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Order Management
3 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
3 1 (7.69%) Software Testing
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) SAP