Job Vacancy Trend Daily Rate Trend
Period
to 14 December 2019

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex 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 14 December 2019 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

System Testing
South East > West Sussex
6 months to
14 Dec 2019		 Same period 2018 Same period 2017
Rank - 99 81
Contract jobs citing System Testing 0 3 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex - 0.26% 0.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.29% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 8
West Sussex median daily rate - £450 £343
Median daily rate % change year-on-year - +31.39% -34.13%
South East median daily rate £475 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +5.56% - +6.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
West Sussex median hourly rate - - -
South East median hourly rate - £42.25 £47.50
% change year-on-year - -11.05% +30.14%

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 advertised in West Sussex with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex
Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 794 1,034 950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 88.72% 89.83% 91.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 496 629 569
West Sussex median daily rate £471 £430 £425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year +9.59% +1.18% +6.25%
10th Percentile £245 £300 £262
90th Percentile £586 £570 £551
South East median daily rate £450 £438 £425
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +6.12%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 35 47
West Sussex median hourly rate £22.50 £49.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year -54.55% +4.21% +35.71%
10th Percentile £13.23 £11.30 £21.41
90th Percentile £50.88 £52.65 £51.00
South East median hourly rate £26.69 £25.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year +6.75% +8.04% -2.57%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

Job postings citing System Testing as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised in West Sussex.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in West Sussex

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing System Testing in West Sussex.

Contractor daily rate trend for System Testing in West Sussex