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 2 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 0.34% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile £575 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £688 £575 £588
% change year-on-year +19.57% -2.13% +2.17%

All Process & 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 201 123 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 69.31% 93.18% 76.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 85 92
10th Percentile £263 £250 £158
25th Percentile £373 £406 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -0.26%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £591
90th Percentile £630 £704 £613
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 7 29
10th Percentile £37.25 £16.09 £12.50
25th Percentile £50.00 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £18.51 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +210.64% -25.96% -44.44%
75th Percentile £58.75 - £40.00
90th Percentile - £19.51 £48.00
South West median hourly rate £57.50 £65.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year -11.54% +36.84% -22.76%

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 2 April 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
Bath - 1 £550 -
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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) ERP Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Test Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Validation