Senior Systems Tester Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Senior System Tester
England > West Midlands

As of 31 May 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Senior System Tester daily rate in the West Midlands.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Systems Tester 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.062% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 2,989 1,277 1,775
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.68% 90.57% 91.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,873 831 1,210
10th Percentile £313 £200 £255
25th Percentile £406 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £475 £485
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -2.06% -3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £640 £700
England median daily rate £518 £518 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.43% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 83 142
10th Percentile £14.90 £12.62 £12.14
25th Percentile £22.50 £14.00 £14.88
Median hourly rate £33.99 £20.00 £19.77
Median % change year-on-year +69.95% +1.16% -1.15%
75th Percentile £59.50 £33.90 £40.38
90th Percentile £69.60 £50.00 £56.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -16.67%

Senior Systems Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Senior Systems Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Senior Systems Tester job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Senior Systems Tester
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Systems Tester within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 May 2026. 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
Solihull - 2 - -
Senior Systems Tester
England

Senior Systems Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 May 2026, Senior Systems Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Senior Systems Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) WireMock
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation

Senior Systems Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) GCP
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub
1 2 (100.00%) GitHub Actions
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) GitLab
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) Git
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) WireMock
2 1 (50.00%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (50.00%) Grafana
2 1 (50.00%) Prometheus