System Testing Contract Job Trends in Warwickshire

System Testing
West Midlands > Warwickshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Warwickshire requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 44 -
Rank change year-on-year -1 - -
Contract jobs citing System Testing 6 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Warwickshire 1.13% 0.29% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 0.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £435 - -
25th Percentile £450 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £685 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £440 £400 £338
% change year-on-year +10.00% +18.52% -19.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 451 305 304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire 84.77% 87.14% 88.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 176 218
10th Percentile £303 £413 £220
25th Percentile £402 £475 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £613 £613 £638
90th Percentile £725 £671 £738
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 11 6
10th Percentile £16.12 - £17.13
25th Percentile £18.44 £14.70 £21.25
Median hourly rate £32.50 £32.28 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +13.26% +98.47%
75th Percentile £39.25 £35.00 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 - £36.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.25 £22.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -7.95% -4.35% +29.94%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Warwickshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warwickshire.

System Testing job vacancy trend in Warwickshire

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Warwickshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Warwickshire over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in Warwickshire

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Warwickshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing System Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warwickshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Warwickshire

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 Warwickshire region over the 6 months to 20 December 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
Warwick -7 4 £550 - 1
Gaydon - 1 £425 -
System Testing
West Midlands

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warwickshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) CANalyzer
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Maximo
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (16.67%) CANoe
2 1 (16.67%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Electronics
3 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Validation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) ADO
1 2 (33.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) FMCG
1 1 (16.67%) Mainframe
1 1 (16.67%) Replication
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
4 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
5 1 (16.67%) FMEA
5 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Regulatory Compliance
5 1 (16.67%) Release Train
5 1 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
5 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) MATLAB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO 26262
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) CyberArk
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Oracle
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) IBM
2 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft