System Testing Contracts in the South East

System Testing
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 190 181 223
Rank change year-on-year -9 +42 -40
Contract jobs citing System Testing 16 40 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.29% 0.69% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.77% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 31 32
10th Percentile £522 £408 £306
25th Percentile £543 £463 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £590 £525 £498
Median % change year-on-year +12.43% +5.53% +65.83%
75th Percentile £628 £560 £589
90th Percentile £784 £625 £671
England median daily rate £500 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.13
25th Percentile £20.50 £61.25 £20.94
Median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -66.40% +138.10% -50.00%
75th Percentile £21.50 £63.75 £30.94
90th Percentile - - £33.38
England median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -66.40% +78.57% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,718 5,188 6,946
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 84.86% 89.29% 89.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,744 3,601 4,703
10th Percentile £243 £250 £225
25th Percentile £400 £405 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £508 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.48% +1.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £620 £619 £588
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 434 219 287
10th Percentile £13.00 £18.25 £12.21
25th Percentile £18.23 £23.83 £15.56
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -18.18%
75th Percentile £62.49 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £76.86 £74.83 £63.45
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -4.00% +53.06% +2.08%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the South East.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the South East

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 April 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
Thames Valley -3 9 £600 +14.29% 6
Berkshire -17 9 £600 +14.29% 1
Hampshire -5 5 £660 +38.84% 6
Surrey +9 2 £550 -8.71% 2
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Azure
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (12.50%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) LAN
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 12 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (12.50%) Military
2 2 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Designer
2 5 (31.25%) Lead
2 5 (31.25%) Lead Designer
3 4 (25.00%) Product Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Security Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Information Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Integration Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Principal Test Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Test and Integration Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Integration Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Principal Test Manager
6 1 (6.25%) Product Business Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
6 1 (6.25%) Systems Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (31.25%) AngularJS
1 5 (31.25%) CSS
1 5 (31.25%) HTML
1 5 (31.25%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Life Science
3 1 (6.25%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) Integration Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Business Analysis
3 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
3 5 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
3 5 (31.25%) Data-Driven Testing
3 5 (31.25%) DevOps
3 5 (31.25%) Knowledge Transfer
3 5 (31.25%) Security Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Software Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Test Automation
3 5 (31.25%) Time Management
3 5 (31.25%) Unit Testing
4 4 (25.00%) API Development
4 4 (25.00%) Coaching
4 4 (25.00%) Kanban
4 4 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 4 (25.00%) Scrum
4 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) JavaScript
1 5 (31.25%) PHP
2 1 (6.25%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Def Stans
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 15288
Vendors
1 1 (6.25%) Sparx