System Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

System Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 86 136 132
Rank change year-on-year +50 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing System Testing 16 9 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.06% 0.34% 0.65%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.14% 0.38% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 17
10th Percentile £548 £549 £459
25th Percentile £575 £575 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +16.67%
75th Percentile - £625 £550
90th Percentile £630 £631 £560
South East median daily rate £600 £590 £525
% change year-on-year +1.65% +12.43% +5.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £21.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £21.00 £62.50
% change year-on-year - -66.40% +138.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the Thames Valley

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the Thames Valley

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley 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
Berkshire +37 15 £600 - 6
Buckinghamshire - 1 £525 - 5
System Testing
South East

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.25%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) Azure
2 5 (31.25%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Machine Learning
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (12.50%) Power Automate
4 1 (6.25%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (12.50%) GIS
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 6 (37.50%) Git
2 2 (12.50%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.25%) Oracle Forms
General
1 4 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 3 (18.75%) Public Sector
3 2 (12.50%) Electronics
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Developer
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Business Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Data Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Tester
3 2 (12.50%) Software Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Solutions Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (37.50%) .NET
1 6 (37.50%) CSS
1 6 (37.50%) HTML
2 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 2 (12.50%) PySpark
2 2 (12.50%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Cyberattack
2 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
2 2 (12.50%) Operational Technology
2 2 (12.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Replication
2 2 (12.50%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 2 (12.50%) Linux
1 2 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (68.75%) Agile
2 7 (43.75%) DevOps
2 7 (43.75%) Integration Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Unit Testing
3 6 (37.50%) Artificial Intelligence
3 6 (37.50%) LLM
3 6 (37.50%) Software Testing
4 5 (31.25%) SDLC
5 4 (25.00%) Channel Management
6 3 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (18.75%) Product Backlog
6 3 (18.75%) Programme Management
6 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Data Integration
7 2 (12.50%) Data Validation
7 2 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
7 2 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Use Case
7 2 (12.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 9 (56.25%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) C#
2 6 (37.50%) JavaScript
2 6 (37.50%) Python
3 2 (12.50%) Perl
3 2 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) Data Quality
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) OpenAI
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Databricks
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 2 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (6.25%) Salesforce
4 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.25%) Snow