System Testing Contract Job Trends in Somerset

System Testing
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Somerset requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 22 -
Rank change year-on-year -11 - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 2 9 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.05% 5.49% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.47% 6.77% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £633 -
South West median daily rate £659 £544 £600
% change year-on-year +21.15% -9.38% +9.29%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 136 133 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 71.58% 81.10% 85.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 90 96
10th Percentile £171 £200 £143
25th Percentile £263 £355 £244
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -18.42% +1.06% -16.81%
75th Percentile £514 £638 £589
90th Percentile £588 £726 £681
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 3 25
10th Percentile £35.14 - £35.00
25th Percentile £47.63 £12.50 £46.18
Median hourly rate £62.50 £13.00 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year +380.77% -74.95% +15.31%
75th Percentile £63.75 £15.00 £62.92
90th Percentile £63.83 £15.90 £65.00
South West median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -54.78% +8.33% -7.69%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in Somerset

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Street - 2 - -
System Testing
South West

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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 (100.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Data Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cloud Operations
1 2 (100.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (100.00%) Data Virtualisation
1 2 (100.00%) Observability
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Tuning
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Runbook
1 2 (100.00%) Secure Coding
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Google