System Testing Contracts in Wiltshire

System Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 76 64 69
Rank change year-on-year -12 +5 -12
Contract jobs citing System Testing 13 25 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.38% 2.30% 1.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.67% 2.48% 1.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 24 7
10th Percentile £375 £458 £443
25th Percentile £489 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £563
90th Percentile £725 £714 £573
South West median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +23.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £49.25
Median hourly rate - - £50.50
75th Percentile - - £51.75
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate - - £50.50

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 777 1,007 826
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.57% 92.47% 92.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 576 846 592
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.43% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £625
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +5.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 11 23
10th Percentile £12.00 £60.00 £15.18
25th Percentile £14.54 £61.50 £28.25
Median hourly rate £15.52 £65.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.31% +19.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £30.25 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £52.13 £87.50 £69.81
South West median hourly rate £55.00 £60.00 £48.75
% change year-on-year -8.33% +23.08% +14.03%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in Wiltshire

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in Wiltshire

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in Wiltshire

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in Wiltshire

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 13 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
Corsham -24 8 £525 -4.55% 6
Swindon +13 3 £400 - 2
Chippenham - 2 £700 -
System Testing
South West

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 6 (46.15%) Confluence
2 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.69%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (61.54%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) VSAN
2 3 (23.08%) Skype
3 1 (7.69%) DHCP
3 1 (7.69%) DNS
3 1 (7.69%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
General
1 10 (76.92%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (46.15%) Public Sector
4 3 (23.08%) Aerospace
4 3 (23.08%) Automotive
5 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (38.46%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Test Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (15.38%) Lead
3 2 (15.38%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Clustering
2 3 (23.08%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows 10
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2012
2 2 (15.38%) CentOS
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.69%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Critical Thinking
1 8 (61.54%) Service Management
2 7 (53.85%) NsoIT
3 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 6 (46.15%) Waterfall
4 5 (38.46%) Computer Science
4 5 (38.46%) High Availability
4 5 (38.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (38.46%) Network Virtualisation
4 5 (38.46%) Power Management
4 5 (38.46%) Validation
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 2 (15.38%) Data Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Defect Management
6 2 (15.38%) Inventory Management
6 2 (15.38%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (15.38%) Requirements Workshops
6 2 (15.38%) Supply Chain Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) PowerShell
1 3 (23.08%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) C++
3 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (61.54%) Degree
1 8 (61.54%) SC Cleared
1 8 (61.54%) Security Cleared
2 6 (46.15%) CCNA
2 6 (46.15%) Cisco Certification
3 5 (38.46%) Master's Degree
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (38.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 4 (30.77%) Chartered Engineer
5 3 (23.08%) MCSE
6 1 (7.69%) CCNP
6 1 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (38.46%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (38.46%) VMware NSX
3 3 (23.08%) Active Directory
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) vCenter Server
2 3 (23.08%) WSUS
3 1 (7.69%) SCCM
3 1 (7.69%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Atlassian
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
1 6 (46.15%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam