System Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

System Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 25 16
Rank change year-on-year -39 -9 +54
Contract jobs citing System Testing 4 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.90% 3.91% 8.99%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 4.17% 15.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £423 £429 -
25th Percentile £434 £455 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £473 £536
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% -11.75% +27.62%
75th Percentile £479 £483 -
90th Percentile £486 £493 -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +26.06% -17.50% +19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 374 120 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 84.42% 93.75% 57.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 276 76 30
10th Percentile £400 £263 £292
25th Percentile £444 £357 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £472 £410
Median % change year-on-year +4.24% +15.12% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £519 £490
90th Percentile £578 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.12 £23.00
% change year-on-year +6.66% -12.52% +29.94%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing System Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 16 February 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
Telford -36 4 £460 -2.75% 4
System Testing
West Midlands

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Gatling
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (25.00%) Senior
1 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
1 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Java EE
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) RESTful
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Batch
2 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) OWASP
2 2 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (25.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Static Application Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Scala
3 1 (25.00%) VB
3 1 (25.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kibana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) Actian
2 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
2 1 (25.00%) PagerDuty
2 1 (25.00%) Splunk