System Testing Contracts in the Thames Valley

System Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 130 134 159
Rank change year-on-year +4 +25 -26
Contract jobs citing System Testing 9 18 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.61% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.67% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 17 9
10th Percentile £549 £459 £128
25th Percentile £575 £481 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +16.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £625 £550 £520
90th Percentile £631 £560 £538
South East median daily rate £555 £525 £498
% change year-on-year +5.71% +5.53% +65.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.50 - -
Median hourly rate £21.00 - -
75th Percentile £21.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year -66.40% +131.65% -48.61%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,348 2,701 3,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.25% 91.93% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,878 2,085
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 85
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

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

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

System Testing
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 26 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
Berkshire -13 9 £600 +14.29% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (55.56%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Cognitive Search
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Key Vault
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Monitor
3 2 (22.22%) Veeva
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Git
General
1 7 (77.78%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Designer
1 5 (55.56%) Lead
1 5 (55.56%) Lead Designer
2 4 (44.44%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Information Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Product Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) AngularJS
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
1 5 (55.56%) HTML
1 5 (55.56%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Data-Driven Testing
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Integration Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Security Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Unit Testing
3 4 (44.44%) API Design
3 4 (44.44%) API Development
3 4 (44.44%) Coaching
4 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Data Enrichment
5 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Process Improvement
5 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Change
5 2 (22.22%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (22.22%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) JavaScript
1 5 (55.56%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) C