System Testing Contracts

System Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 29 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 461 472 528
Rank change year-on-year +11 +56 -2
Contract jobs citing System Testing 127 226 326
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.45% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 181 214
10th Percentile £358 £356 £316
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.62% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £576 £612 £588
90th Percentile £638 £725 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +23.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - £45.50 £29.38
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -61.82% +22.71% -0.40%
75th Percentile £21.50 £60.63 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.50 £49.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £45.14
% change year-on-year -66.40% +38.46% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,749 50,370 79,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.64% 89.70% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 34,859 55,702
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £640
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £486
% change year-on-year - +2.87% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,511 1,675 1,892
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% +44.08% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.99%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 29 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 May 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
England +16 109 £520 -4.59% 100
UK excluding London +4 82 £525 - 80
Work from Home +93 46 £500 -4.76% 42
London +49 36 £435 -20.91% 22
South West -23 22 £525 -4.55% 13
North of England +45 21 £550 +10.00% 17
Midlands +20 16 £463 +28.47% 23
Yorkshire +22 13 £550 +10.00% 5
West Midlands +11 11 £500 +29.03% 13
South East -15 11 £590 +10.85% 16
North West +30 8 £500 - 10
Scotland +19 7 £475 -5.00% 8
East Midlands +15 5 £363 +0.69% 10
East of England +6 3 £425 -13.27% 4
Northern Ireland +6 2 - -

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (6.30%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) CMS
2 2 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.79%) SAS
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.94%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.94%) Markit EDM
2 4 (3.15%) thinkFolio
3 2 (1.57%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.79%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.79%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 1 (0.79%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.79%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.79%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.79%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.79%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.24%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (3.94%) AWS
2 5 (3.94%) Azure
3 3 (2.36%) Apigee
4 2 (1.57%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.57%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.57%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.57%) Veeva
4 2 (1.57%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.79%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.79%) Boomi
5 1 (0.79%) BrowserStack
5 1 (0.79%) OCI
5 1 (0.79%) PaaS
5 1 (0.79%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) VSAN
2 3 (2.36%) SSL
3 2 (1.57%) 4G
3 2 (1.57%) 5G
3 2 (1.57%) Network Security
3 2 (1.57%) Skype
3 2 (1.57%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.94%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.15%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.15%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.36%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.57%) Power BI
5 1 (0.79%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.79%) Ingres
5 1 (0.79%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (13.39%) JIRA
2 10 (7.87%) JUnit
3 7 (5.51%) Selenium
4 6 (4.72%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.94%) Maven
6 4 (3.15%) Ant
7 3 (2.36%) Git
7 3 (2.36%) gulp
7 3 (2.36%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.57%) NUnit
8 2 (1.57%) Postman
8 2 (1.57%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.57%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.79%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.79%) JMeter
9 1 (0.79%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.79%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.79%) Rational Performance Tester
9 1 (0.79%) TestNG
General
1 35 (27.56%) Analytical Skills
1 35 (27.56%) Social Skills
2 27 (21.26%) Finance
3 14 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.87%) Back Office
5 7 (5.51%) Front Office
6 5 (3.94%) Automotive
6 5 (3.94%) Marketing
6 5 (3.94%) Military
7 4 (3.15%) Aerospace
8 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
8 3 (2.36%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (2.36%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.57%) General Ledger
9 2 (1.57%) Local Government
9 2 (1.57%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Banking
10 1 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 41 (32.28%) Analyst
2 19 (14.96%) Consultant
2 19 (14.96%) Developer
3 13 (10.24%) Test Analyst
3 13 (10.24%) Test Engineer
4 11 (8.66%) Business Analyst
5 10 (7.87%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 10 (7.87%) SQL Developer
6 9 (7.09%) Lead
7 8 (6.30%) Tester
8 7 (5.51%) Senior
9 6 (4.72%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.94%) Designer
10 5 (3.94%) Functional Consultant
10 5 (3.94%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.94%) Product Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) Support Analyst
10 5 (3.94%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (7.09%) Gherkin
2 5 (3.94%) .NET
2 5 (3.94%) Flash
2 5 (3.94%) Node.js
2 5 (3.94%) XML
3 4 (3.15%) CSS
3 4 (3.15%) HTML
3 4 (3.15%) JSON
4 3 (2.36%) OAuth
4 3 (2.36%) OpenID
4 3 (2.36%) RESTful
4 3 (2.36%) SAML
5 2 (1.57%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.57%) REST
5 2 (1.57%) SOAP
6 1 (0.79%) Middleware
6 1 (0.79%) PySpark
6 1 (0.79%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.66%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.72%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.72%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.72%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.72%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.94%) Clustering
4 4 (3.15%) Derivative
4 4 (3.15%) Equities
4 4 (3.15%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 3 (2.36%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 2 (1.57%) CCTV
6 2 (1.57%) Data Structures
6 2 (1.57%) Life Science
6 2 (1.57%) PKI
7 1 (0.79%) EPoS
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.81%) Unix
2 12 (9.45%) Linux
3 8 (6.30%) Windows
4 3 (2.36%) Android
4 3 (2.36%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.57%) CentOS
5 2 (1.57%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.57%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (36.22%) Agile
2 37 (29.13%) User Acceptance Testing
3 33 (25.98%) Software Testing
4 31 (24.41%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (22.83%) Scrum
6 27 (21.26%) Test Automation
7 25 (19.69%) Migration
8 21 (16.54%) Test Scripting
9 19 (14.96%) End-to-End Testing
10 18 (14.17%) Integration Testing
11 16 (12.60%) Unit Testing
12 14 (11.02%) Kanban
12 14 (11.02%) Requirements Gathering
12 14 (11.02%) Validation
13 12 (9.45%) Data Migration
14 11 (8.66%) Acceptance Criteria
14 11 (8.66%) Software Delivery
15 10 (7.87%) API Testing
15 10 (7.87%) Manual Testing
15 10 (7.87%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (18.11%) SQL
2 19 (14.96%) Java
3 9 (7.09%) Bash
3 9 (7.09%) Bourne shell
3 9 (7.09%) Korn
3 9 (7.09%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.30%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.51%) Python
6 4 (3.15%) C++
6 4 (3.15%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.36%) C
7 3 (2.36%) C#
8 2 (1.57%) PHP
8 2 (1.57%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.79%) Perl
9 1 (0.79%) VB
9 1 (0.79%) VBA
9 1 (0.79%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 18 (14.17%) SC Cleared
1 18 (14.17%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.39%) Degree
3 7 (5.51%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.51%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.94%) CCNA
4 5 (3.94%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.94%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.15%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (3.15%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.36%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.57%) MCSE
8 1 (0.79%) ISEB
8 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.39%) QA
2 4 (3.15%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.15%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.36%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.79%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.79%) PMO
5 1 (0.79%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.94%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (3.94%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (3.94%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.94%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.15%) Control-M
3 3 (2.36%) Ansible
4 2 (1.57%) WSUS
5 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.32%) Oracle
3 10 (7.87%) SAP
4 5 (3.94%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.94%) Cisco
4 5 (3.94%) VMware
5 3 (2.36%) Google
5 3 (2.36%) Murex
5 3 (2.36%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.57%) HP
6 2 (1.57%) Panasonic
6 2 (1.57%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.79%) Ariba
7 1 (0.79%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.79%) Avaya
7 1 (0.79%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.79%) Dell
7 1 (0.79%) Genesys
7 1 (0.79%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.79%) Remedy