System Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 309 313
Rank change year-on-year +89 +4 +57
Contract jobs citing System Testing 119 85 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.92% 0.42% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.50% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 71 104
10th Percentile £403 £356 £400
25th Percentile £506 £434 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £620 £578 £600
90th Percentile £690 £725 £644
UK median daily rate £563 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +12.50% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 1
10th Percentile £41.22 - -
25th Percentile £54.06 £20.50 £61.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £21.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +161.90% -66.40% +38.46%
75th Percentile - £21.50 £63.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £21.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +161.90% -61.82% +22.71%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,714 17,075 20,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.67% 84.25% 89.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,292 10,208 14,243
10th Percentile £234 £250 £258
25th Percentile £375 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £651 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 858 2,062 1,260
10th Percentile £14.10 £12.34 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.08 £15.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.82% +8.57% +75.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.71
UK median hourly rate £27.64 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.27% +1.39% +40.19%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing System Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 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
South West +58 43 £575 +9.52% 37
South East +50 20 £600 +3.36% 92
Midlands +15 17 £513 +20.59% 45
East of England +37 13 - - 57
North of England +13 13 £513 +2.50% 57
North West +11 12 £513 +2.65% 41
Scotland +7 12 £500 +5.26% 13
East Midlands +15 11 £520 +43.45% 19
West Midlands +5 6 £400 -20.00% 23
Yorkshire +4 1 £425 -22.73% 12
Wales - 1 £525 - 9
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (21.85%) Confluence
2 11 (9.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.36%) SharePoint
4 3 (2.52%) Exchange Server 2013
4 3 (2.52%) Skype for Business
5 2 (1.68%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.84%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 22 (18.49%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (4.20%) SAP HR
2 4 (3.36%) SAP Payroll
3 3 (2.52%) Finacle
3 3 (2.52%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (2.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (1.68%) Dynamics AX
4 2 (1.68%) Oracle EBS R12
4 2 (1.68%) SAP EWM
4 2 (1.68%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.84%) NEC Housing
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Applications
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.84%) Oracle Payroll
5 1 (0.84%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.84%) Primavera
5 1 (0.84%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.72%) Azure
2 5 (4.20%) Azure DevOps
2 5 (4.20%) SuccessFactors
3 4 (3.36%) Mimecast
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.52%) OCI
4 3 (2.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Data Factory
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Machine Learning
5 2 (1.68%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (1.68%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
6 1 (0.84%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.72%) Skype
2 7 (5.88%) Unified Communications
3 6 (5.04%) BGP
3 6 (5.04%) OSPF
4 5 (4.20%) Cisco IOS
4 5 (4.20%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (4.20%) DMVPN
4 5 (4.20%) Firewall
4 5 (4.20%) VXLAN
5 3 (2.52%) DHCP
5 3 (2.52%) DNS
5 3 (2.52%) SpaceWire
6 2 (1.68%) iSCSI
6 2 (1.68%) SAN
6 2 (1.68%) VSAN
7 1 (0.84%) Intranet
7 1 (0.84%) Modbus
7 1 (0.84%) VLAN
7 1 (0.84%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.52%) GIS
1 3 (2.52%) SQL Server
1 3 (2.52%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (1.68%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 2 (1.68%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.84%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (27.73%) JIRA
2 18 (15.13%) Git
3 14 (11.76%) Bitbucket
4 9 (7.56%) Jenkins
5 5 (4.20%) Selenium
6 4 (3.36%) JMeter
6 4 (3.36%) LoadRunner
7 3 (2.52%) Postman
7 3 (2.52%) SpecFlow
8 2 (1.68%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.68%) Oracle Forms
8 2 (1.68%) SoapUI
9 1 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 41 (34.45%) Social Skills
2 38 (31.93%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (23.53%) Public Sector
4 17 (14.29%) Finance
5 6 (5.04%) Local Government
6 5 (4.20%) Manufacturing
7 4 (3.36%) Banking
7 4 (3.36%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (2.52%) Back Office
8 3 (2.52%) Private Banking
9 2 (1.68%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.68%) Electronics
9 2 (1.68%) Front Office
9 2 (1.68%) Marketing
9 2 (1.68%) Telecoms
10 1 (0.84%) Automotive
10 1 (0.84%) Aviation
10 1 (0.84%) Avionics
10 1 (0.84%) Military
10 1 (0.84%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (13.45%) Consultant
2 14 (11.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 11 (9.24%) Analyst
3 11 (9.24%) Tester
4 8 (6.72%) Senior
5 7 (5.88%) Developer
5 7 (5.88%) Systems Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) Electrical Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) HR Consultant
6 6 (5.04%) Implementation Manager
6 6 (5.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (5.04%) SAP Consultant
7 5 (4.20%) Business Analyst
7 5 (4.20%) Network Engineer
7 5 (4.20%) Support Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Technical Implementation Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Technical Manager
7 5 (4.20%) Technical Support
7 5 (4.20%) Technical Support Manager
8 4 (3.36%) Software Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (11.76%) Flash
2 13 (10.92%) SOAP
3 10 (8.40%) REST
4 5 (4.20%) .NET
4 5 (4.20%) Spine.js
5 4 (3.36%) CSS
5 4 (3.36%) HTML
6 3 (2.52%) Lightning Web Components
6 3 (2.52%) Visualforce
7 2 (1.68%) Gherkin
7 2 (1.68%) Playwright
7 2 (1.68%) PySpark
8 1 (0.84%) J2EE
8 1 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (11.76%) Clustering
2 9 (7.56%) PKI
3 4 (3.36%) Product Ownership
3 4 (3.36%) SCADA
4 3 (2.52%) Cyberattack
4 3 (2.52%) Derivative
4 3 (2.52%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
4 3 (2.52%) Onboarding
4 3 (2.52%) Operational Technology
4 3 (2.52%) Replication
5 2 (1.68%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.84%) EPoS
6 1 (0.84%) PMI
6 1 (0.84%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.84%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 24 (20.17%) Windows
2 19 (15.97%) Windows Server
3 15 (12.61%) Linux
4 8 (6.72%) Windows 10
5 7 (5.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (2.52%) Unix
6 3 (2.52%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (1.68%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (40.34%) Agile
2 41 (34.45%) Validation
3 38 (31.93%) Service Management
4 33 (27.73%) NsoIT
5 30 (25.21%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (20.17%) User Acceptance Testing
7 21 (17.65%) Critical Thinking
8 20 (16.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 20 (16.81%) Waterfall
9 19 (15.97%) Computer Science
10 18 (15.13%) Test Automation
11 17 (14.29%) DevOps
12 15 (12.61%) Integration Testing
12 15 (12.61%) Network Virtualisation
13 14 (11.76%) High Availability
13 14 (11.76%) Power Management
14 11 (9.24%) Migration
14 11 (9.24%) System Integration Testing
15 10 (8.40%) Configuration Management
15 10 (8.40%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 26 (21.85%) SQL
2 22 (18.49%) Python
3 17 (14.29%) PowerShell
4 13 (10.92%) Bash
5 9 (7.56%) Java
6 5 (4.20%) JavaScript
7 4 (3.36%) C#
7 4 (3.36%) PL/SQL
8 3 (2.52%) Apex Code
8 3 (2.52%) C
8 3 (2.52%) Perl
8 3 (2.52%) Tcl
9 2 (1.68%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.68%) VBA
10 1 (0.84%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 49 (41.18%) Security Cleared
2 48 (40.34%) SC Cleared
3 34 (28.57%) Degree
4 29 (24.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 27 (22.69%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (14.29%) CCNP
7 14 (11.76%) Master's Degree
8 12 (10.08%) CCNA
9 9 (7.56%) OCA
9 9 (7.56%) Oracle Certification
9 9 (7.56%) RHCA
9 9 (7.56%) RHCE
10 7 (5.88%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (5.04%) MCSE
12 5 (4.20%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (4.20%) ISTQB
13 4 (3.36%) DV Cleared
14 3 (2.52%) MCSA
14 3 (2.52%) SAP Certification
15 1 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.36%) QA
2 3 (2.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.84%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.84%) GDPR
3 1 (0.84%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (24.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (11.76%) VMware NSX
3 7 (5.88%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.52%) Hyper-V
4 3 (2.52%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 3 (2.52%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 28 (23.53%) vCenter Server
2 10 (8.40%) Ansible
2 10 (8.40%) Progress Chef
2 10 (8.40%) Puppet
3 7 (5.88%) WSUS
4 2 (1.68%) SCOM
5 1 (0.84%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.84%) OPNET
Vendors
1 31 (26.05%) Cisco
2 29 (24.37%) VMware
3 24 (20.17%) Atlassian
4 21 (17.65%) Microsoft
5 18 (15.13%) Oracle
6 13 (10.92%) SAP
7 5 (4.20%) ServiceNow
8 4 (3.36%) OpenAI
8 4 (3.36%) Proofpoint
9 3 (2.52%) Avaloq
9 3 (2.52%) Salesforce
9 3 (2.52%) Temenos
9 3 (2.52%) Veeam
10 2 (1.68%) Databricks
10 2 (1.68%) EMC
10 2 (1.68%) Workday
11 1 (0.84%) HP
11 1 (0.84%) NEC
11 1 (0.84%) Snow
11 1 (0.84%) Twitter