System Testing Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

System Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wiltshire requiring System Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 45 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 +18 -14
Contract jobs citing System Testing 11 11 10
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 1.84% 2.33% 1.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.21% 2.74% 1.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 10
10th Percentile £650 £456 £508
25th Percentile £669 £491 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £550 £625
Median % change year-on-year +27.27% -12.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £738 £687 £725
90th Percentile £783 £725 £775
South West median daily rate £659 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +19.77% -8.33% +9.09%

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 497 402 685
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.97% 85.17% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 272 501
10th Percentile £400 £340 £313
25th Percentile £513 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -
75th Percentile £713 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 3 14
10th Percentile £12.50 £22.23 £14.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £36.40 £16.81
Median hourly rate £22.27 £60.00 £46.95
Median % change year-on-year -62.89% +27.80% -28.32%
75th Percentile £24.50 - £67.75
90th Percentile £25.15 - £74.75
South West median hourly rate £32.75 £65.00 £60.00
% change year-on-year -49.62% +8.33% -7.69%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire.

System Testing job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

System Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing System Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in Wiltshire

System Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing System Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing System Testing

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 19 December 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 -15 8 £700 +21.74%
Swindon - 2 - - 2
Chippenham - 1 - -
System Testing
South West

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 3 (27.27%) Confluence
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Microsoft Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Bitbucket
1 5 (45.45%) Git
1 5 (45.45%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 7 (63.64%) Public Sector
3 6 (54.55%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Automation Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Developer
1 3 (27.27%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Lead
2 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.09%) ABAP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Developer
3 1 (9.09%) SQL Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) REST
1 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 2 (18.18%) SOAP
3 1 (9.09%) BAPI
3 1 (9.09%) CSS
3 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (9.09%) JSON
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Smart Forms
3 1 (9.09%) Shiny
3 1 (9.09%) Tidyverse
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows Server
2 3 (27.27%) CentOS
2 3 (27.27%) Windows 10
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Service Management
2 7 (63.64%) Critical Thinking
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Defect Management
3 3 (27.27%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (27.27%) ITIL
3 3 (27.27%) NsoIT
3 3 (27.27%) Problem Management
4 2 (18.18%) Agile
4 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
4 2 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
5 1 (9.09%) OO
5 1 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
5 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (9.09%) TDD
5 1 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (54.55%) PowerShell
2 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 3 (27.27%) JavaScript
3 3 (27.27%) Python
4 2 (18.18%) PHP
5 1 (9.09%) ABAP
5 1 (9.09%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (72.73%) SC Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) MCSE
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (45.45%) Degree
5 3 (27.27%) MCSA
5 3 (27.27%) OCA
5 3 (27.27%) Oracle Certification
5 3 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
1 3 (27.27%) WSUS
2 2 (18.18%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) Atlassian
2 3 (27.27%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
2 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds
2 3 (27.27%) Veeam
2 3 (27.27%) VMware
3 1 (9.09%) SAP