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 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 80 60 67
Rank change year-on-year -20 +7 -12
Contract jobs citing System Testing 10 29 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 1.05% 2.62% 1.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% 2.85% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 8
10th Percentile £375 £461 £448
25th Percentile £513 £466 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £725 £597 £544
90th Percentile £775 £699 £563
South West median daily rate £588 £563 £475
% change year-on-year +4.44% +18.42% +11.76%
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 788 1,019 841
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 82.77% 92.05% 92.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 855 597
10th Percentile £315 £400 £350
25th Percentile £463 £467 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £575 £515
Median % change year-on-year -5.22% +11.63% +3.02%
75th Percentile £675 £669 £613
90th Percentile £725 £725 £675
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 13 24
10th Percentile £12.00 - £15.26
25th Percentile £14.41 £62.75 £29.75
Median hourly rate £14.54 £70.80 £59.25
Median % change year-on-year -79.46% +19.49% +18.50%
75th Percentile £27.00 £77.50 £69.05
90th Percentile £43.38 £86.00 £73.50
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
% change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 -30 6 £600 +9.09% 2
Swindon +15 2 £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 (60.00%) Confluence
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (20.00%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) VSAN
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) Skype
2 2 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (10.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (20.00%) Aerospace
3 2 (20.00%) Automotive
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Lead Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) Flash
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) .NET Framework
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) PKI
3 1 (10.00%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 10
1 2 (20.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
1 6 (60.00%) Critical Thinking
1 6 (60.00%) NsoIT
1 6 (60.00%) Service Management
1 6 (60.00%) Waterfall
2 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) High Availability
3 4 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
3 4 (40.00%) Power Management
3 4 (40.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) Migration
4 2 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (20.00%) Supply Chain Management
4 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
4 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C++
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) Degree
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (50.00%) CCNA
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (40.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (40.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (20.00%) Chartered Engineer
6 1 (10.00%) CCNP
6 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (10.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (50.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (20.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 2 (20.00%) WSUS
3 1 (10.00%) Ansible
3 1 (10.00%) Progress Chef
3 1 (10.00%) Puppet
3 1 (10.00%) SCCM
3 1 (10.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Atlassian
1 6 (60.00%) VMware
2 5 (50.00%) Cisco
3 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) Veeam
5 1 (10.00%) Splunk