System Testing Contracts in the South West

System Testing
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 135 116
Rank change year-on-year +66 -19 +44
Contract jobs citing System Testing 42 22 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.50% 0.69% 1.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.77% 0.83% 1.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 22 41
10th Percentile £525 £450 £463
25th Percentile £530 £513 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +17.95%
75th Percentile £688 £706 £612
90th Percentile £695 £725 £675
England median daily rate £575 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +15.00% -5.66% +6.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 the South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,516 2,656 3,250
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.35% 83.03% 89.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 965 1,696 2,395
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 336 335
10th Percentile £18.33 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the South West

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Wiltshire +53 33 £588 +4.44%
Dorset +10 8 £550 -8.33% 1
Gloucestershire +17 1 - - 7
System Testing
England

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

Application Platforms
1 25 (59.52%) Confluence
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (7.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (7.14%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 21 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (2.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.38%) Azure
1 1 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (19.05%) Skype
2 6 (14.29%) BGP
2 6 (14.29%) OSPF
3 5 (11.90%) Cisco IOS
3 5 (11.90%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (11.90%) DMVPN
3 5 (11.90%) Firewall
3 5 (11.90%) VXLAN
4 4 (9.52%) Unified Communications
5 3 (7.14%) DHCP
5 3 (7.14%) DNS
6 2 (4.76%) iSCSI
6 2 (4.76%) SAN
6 2 (4.76%) VSAN
7 1 (2.38%) VLAN
7 1 (2.38%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 25 (59.52%) JIRA
2 14 (33.33%) Bitbucket
3 10 (23.81%) Git
4 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.38%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 23 (54.76%) Analytical Skills
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 18 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 1 (2.38%) Back Office
3 1 (2.38%) Finance
3 1 (2.38%) Military
3 1 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Network Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Senior
4 4 (9.52%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 4 (9.52%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Analyst
6 2 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.76%) Test Analyst
7 1 (2.38%) Computer Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Lead
7 1 (2.38%) Telephony Engineer
7 1 (2.38%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.38%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (33.33%) Flash
2 10 (23.81%) REST
2 10 (23.81%) SOAP
3 5 (11.90%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (33.33%) Clustering
2 9 (21.43%) PKI
3 1 (2.38%) EPoS
3 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.38%) PMI
3 1 (2.38%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 19 (45.24%) Windows
1 19 (45.24%) Windows Server
2 9 (21.43%) Linux
3 8 (19.05%) Windows 10
4 7 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (90.48%) Service Management
2 33 (78.57%) NsoIT
3 31 (73.81%) Validation
4 27 (64.29%) Agile
5 21 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
6 20 (47.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 17 (40.48%) Waterfall
8 15 (35.71%) Network Virtualisation
9 14 (33.33%) High Availability
9 14 (33.33%) Power Management
10 13 (30.95%) Computer Science
11 12 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
12 10 (23.81%) Configuration Management
12 10 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
12 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
12 10 (23.81%) Reverse Engineering
13 9 (21.43%) ITIL
14 5 (11.90%) Network Architecture
15 4 (9.52%) DevOps
15 4 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (40.48%) PowerShell
2 10 (23.81%) Bash
2 10 (23.81%) Python
3 7 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 38 (90.48%) Security Cleared
2 37 (88.10%) SC Cleared
3 29 (69.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 27 (64.29%) Cisco Certification
5 21 (50.00%) Degree
6 17 (40.48%) CCNP
7 13 (30.95%) Master's Degree
8 12 (28.57%) CCNA
9 9 (21.43%) OCA
9 9 (21.43%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (21.43%) RHCA
9 9 (21.43%) RHCE
10 7 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (14.29%) MCSE
12 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
13 3 (7.14%) MCSA
14 1 (2.38%) ISTQB
14 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
System Software
1 29 (69.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 7 (16.67%) Active Directory
4 3 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (7.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (66.67%) vCenter Server
2 10 (23.81%) Ansible
2 10 (23.81%) Progress Chef
2 10 (23.81%) Puppet
3 7 (16.67%) WSUS
4 2 (4.76%) SCOM
5 1 (2.38%) OPNET
Vendors
1 29 (69.05%) VMware
2 27 (64.29%) Cisco
3 24 (57.14%) Atlassian
4 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
5 9 (21.43%) Oracle
6 3 (7.14%) Veeam
7 1 (2.38%) Workday