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 16 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 298 367
Rank change year-on-year -28 +69 -19
Contract jobs citing System Testing 75 132 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.35% 0.58% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.65% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 104 95
10th Percentile £373 £402 £235
25th Percentile £429 £474 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +21.11% +23.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £538
90th Percentile £628 £644 £600
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +24.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
10th Percentile - £21.11 £41.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £21.21 £42.18
Median hourly rate £21.00 £21.36 £46.32
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -53.89% +1.80%
75th Percentile £21.50 £42.56 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.27 -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £34.43 £46.32
% change year-on-year -39.01% -25.67% +2.93%

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 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

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 16 June 2024.

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
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 16 June 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
South West -24 22 £525 -12.50% 10
North of England +32 21 £550 +10.00% 19
Yorkshire +25 15 £550 +10.00% 4
Midlands +14 14 £500 +29.03% 26
West Midlands +10 9 £518 +33.68% 13
South East -11 9 £562 +2.23% 19
North West +19 6 £325 - 12
East Midlands - 5 £363 - 13
Scotland +31 4 £488 -2.50% 14
East of England +5 3 £425 -15.00% 1
Northern Ireland -2 2 - -
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 5 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.33%) NetSuite
1 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.33%) SAP EWM
1 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (8.00%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (6.67%) Azure
3 3 (4.00%) Apigee
3 3 (4.00%) AWS
4 2 (2.67%) Veeva
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.33%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.33%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) VSAN
2 3 (4.00%) SSL
3 2 (2.67%) 4G
3 2 (2.67%) 5G
3 2 (2.67%) Network Security
3 2 (2.67%) Skype
3 2 (2.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) Oracle Database
2 3 (4.00%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.33%) Power BI
3 1 (1.33%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JUnit
2 7 (9.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (6.67%) Maven
4 4 (5.33%) Ant
5 3 (4.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (4.00%) gulp
6 2 (2.67%) Git
6 2 (2.67%) NUnit
6 2 (2.67%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.67%) Selenium
6 2 (2.67%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
7 1 (1.33%) Postman
7 1 (1.33%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (28.00%) Analytical Skills
1 21 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.33%) Finance
3 9 (12.00%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.33%) Aerospace
4 4 (5.33%) Automotive
5 2 (2.67%) Military
5 2 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.67%) Retail
6 1 (1.33%) Marketing
6 1 (1.33%) Police
6 1 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (24.00%) Analyst
2 12 (16.00%) Consultant
3 11 (14.67%) Developer
3 11 (14.67%) Test Engineer
4 8 (10.67%) Lead
5 7 (9.33%) SQL Developer
5 7 (9.33%) Test Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Business Analyst
6 5 (6.67%) Designer
6 5 (6.67%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 5 (6.67%) Product Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.33%) Lead Consultant
7 4 (5.33%) Oracle Analyst
7 4 (5.33%) Tester
7 4 (5.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Automation Tester
8 3 (4.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) Gherkin
2 5 (6.67%) .NET
2 5 (6.67%) Node.js
3 4 (5.33%) Flash
4 3 (4.00%) CSS
4 3 (4.00%) HTML
4 3 (4.00%) OAuth
4 3 (4.00%) OpenID
4 3 (4.00%) RESTful
4 3 (4.00%) SAML
5 2 (2.67%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.33%) Middleware
6 1 (1.33%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.67%) Product Ownership
2 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 6 (8.00%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
4 4 (5.33%) Clustering
4 4 (5.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Life Science
5 2 (2.67%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.67%) PKI
6 1 (1.33%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.33%) EPoS
6 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.33%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.33%) Unix
2 6 (8.00%) Linux
3 4 (5.33%) Windows
4 3 (4.00%) Android
4 3 (4.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (2.67%) CentOS
5 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (40.00%) Agile
2 28 (37.33%) Software Testing
3 21 (28.00%) Test Scripting
4 19 (25.33%) Scrum
4 19 (25.33%) Test Automation
5 16 (21.33%) Unit Testing
6 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (17.33%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (16.00%) Kanban
8 12 (16.00%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (10.67%) Software Delivery
10 7 (9.33%) Acceptance Criteria
10 7 (9.33%) Analytics
10 7 (9.33%) API Testing
10 7 (9.33%) Business Analysis
10 7 (9.33%) Migration
10 7 (9.33%) Service Management
10 7 (9.33%) TDD
10 7 (9.33%) Test Strategy
10 7 (9.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.33%) Java
2 9 (12.00%) SQL
3 7 (9.33%) Bash
3 7 (9.33%) Bourne shell
3 7 (9.33%) Korn
3 7 (9.33%) PL/SQL
4 6 (8.00%) JavaScript
5 4 (5.33%) Python
6 3 (4.00%) C++
7 2 (2.67%) C#
7 2 (2.67%) PHP
7 2 (2.67%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.33%) C
8 1 (1.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (14.67%) SC Cleared
1 11 (14.67%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.67%) Degree
3 6 (8.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 6 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (5.33%) CCNA
4 4 (5.33%) Chartered Engineer
4 4 (5.33%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (5.33%) Master's Degree
4 4 (5.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.67%) MCSE
6 1 (1.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) QA
2 2 (2.67%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.33%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (5.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (5.33%) VMware NSX
2 2 (2.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) vCenter Server
2 3 (4.00%) Ansible
3 2 (2.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 12 (16.00%) Microsoft
1 12 (16.00%) Oracle
2 6 (8.00%) SAP
3 4 (5.33%) Atlassian
3 4 (5.33%) Cisco
3 4 (5.33%) VMware
4 3 (4.00%) Google
5 2 (2.67%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.33%) Avaya
6 1 (1.33%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.33%) Genesys
6 1 (1.33%) Peregrine
6 1 (1.33%) Remedy
6 1 (1.33%) Siemens