System Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

System Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 95 114
Rank change year-on-year 0 +19 +43
Contract jobs citing System Testing 6 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.43% 0.58% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.70% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 10
10th Percentile £388 £336 £207
25th Percentile - £397 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +29.03% +1.97%
75th Percentile £419 £536 £523
90th Percentile £500 - £549
England median daily rate £575 £500 £535
% change year-on-year +15.00% -6.54% +4.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,236 1,582 1,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.67% 83.70% 88.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 803 1,054 1,359
10th Percentile £195 £272 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +4.52%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.49 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -19.71% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £24.42 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
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 System Testing within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 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
Staffordshire - 4 £400 - 5
Coventry +6 1 £550 +50.17% 7
Warwickshire - 1 £425 - 1
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Mimecast
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (16.67%) Modbus
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Messaging Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) OAT Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
1 1 (16.67%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Change Management
2 4 (66.67%) Decision-Making
2 4 (66.67%) Information Security
2 4 (66.67%) PLM
2 4 (66.67%) Strategic Planning
2 4 (66.67%) User Experience
3 3 (50.00%) Service Catalogue
4 2 (33.33%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Change Control
5 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (16.67%) Scrum
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
5 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
5 1 (16.67%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP ALM
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Proofpoint
3 1 (16.67%) HP