System Testing Contracts in Wiltshire

System Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 77 65
Rank change year-on-year +53 -12 +3
Contract jobs citing System Testing 33 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 7.35% 1.27% 2.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.17% 1.54% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 12 27
10th Percentile £525 £389 £460
25th Percentile £547 £513 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% +2.27% +15.79%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £606
90th Percentile £695 £770 £703
South West median daily rate £575 £550 £575
% change year-on-year +4.55% -4.35% +17.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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
Corsham +51 29 £575 +2.22%
Swindon -1 1 £355 -11.25%
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 21 (63.64%) Confluence
2 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.09%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (39.39%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (3.03%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.03%) Azure
1 1 (3.03%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.18%) BGP
1 6 (18.18%) OSPF
2 5 (15.15%) Cisco IOS
2 5 (15.15%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (15.15%) DMVPN
2 5 (15.15%) Firewall
2 5 (15.15%) VXLAN
3 4 (12.12%) Skype
3 4 (12.12%) Unified Communications
4 3 (9.09%) DHCP
4 3 (9.09%) DNS
5 2 (6.06%) iSCSI
5 2 (6.06%) SAN
5 2 (6.06%) VSAN
6 1 (3.03%) VLAN
6 1 (3.03%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 21 (63.64%) JIRA
2 14 (42.42%) Bitbucket
3 10 (30.30%) Git
4 9 (27.27%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 15 (45.45%) Analytical Skills
1 15 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 14 (42.42%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.03%) Back Office
3 1 (3.03%) Finance
3 1 (3.03%) Military
3 1 (3.03%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 6 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (15.15%) Network Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (9.09%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (6.06%) Software Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Computer Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Lead
6 1 (3.03%) Telephony Engineer
6 1 (3.03%) Test Analyst
6 1 (3.03%) Test Manager
6 1 (3.03%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (30.30%) Flash
1 10 (30.30%) REST
1 10 (30.30%) SOAP
2 5 (15.15%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (30.30%) Clustering
2 5 (15.15%) PKI
3 1 (3.03%) EPoS
3 1 (3.03%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 15 (45.45%) Windows
1 15 (45.45%) Windows Server
2 9 (27.27%) Linux
3 4 (12.12%) Windows 10
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (9.09%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (6.06%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (90.91%) Service Management
2 27 (81.82%) Validation
3 25 (75.76%) NsoIT
4 23 (69.70%) Agile
5 16 (48.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (39.39%) Critical Thinking
6 13 (39.39%) Waterfall
7 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (33.33%) Network Virtualisation
9 10 (30.30%) Configuration Management
9 10 (30.30%) Deployment Automation
9 10 (30.30%) High Availability
9 10 (30.30%) Infrastructure Automation
9 10 (30.30%) Power Management
9 10 (30.30%) Reverse Engineering
10 9 (27.27%) Computer Science
11 5 (15.15%) ITIL
11 5 (15.15%) Network Architecture
12 4 (12.12%) DevOps
13 3 (9.09%) Two-Factor Authentication
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) PowerShell
2 10 (30.30%) Bash
2 10 (30.30%) Python
3 3 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (90.91%) Security Cleared
2 29 (87.88%) SC Cleared
3 25 (75.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 23 (69.70%) Cisco Certification
5 17 (51.52%) CCNP
6 13 (39.39%) Degree
7 9 (27.27%) Master's Degree
7 9 (27.27%) OCA
7 9 (27.27%) Oracle Certification
7 9 (27.27%) RHCA
7 9 (27.27%) RHCE
8 8 (24.24%) CCNA
9 4 (12.12%) DV Cleared
10 3 (9.09%) MCSA
10 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (6.06%) MCSE
12 1 (3.03%) ISTQB
System Software
1 25 (75.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (30.30%) VMware ESXi
2 10 (30.30%) VMware NSX
3 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 3 (9.09%) Hyper-V
3 3 (9.09%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 3 (9.09%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.03%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (72.73%) vCenter Server
2 10 (30.30%) Ansible
2 10 (30.30%) Progress Chef
2 10 (30.30%) Puppet
3 3 (9.09%) WSUS
4 2 (6.06%) SCOM
5 1 (3.03%) OPNET
Vendors
1 25 (75.76%) VMware
2 23 (69.70%) Cisco
3 20 (60.61%) Atlassian
4 9 (27.27%) Oracle
5 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
6 3 (9.09%) Veeam
7 1 (3.03%) Workday