System Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

System Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 384 487
Rank change year-on-year +86 +103 -93
Contract jobs citing System Testing 54 86 148
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.35% 0.33% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.37% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 70 120
10th Percentile £413 £351 £306
25th Percentile £486 £454 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% +20.00%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £588
90th Percentile £725 £658 £759
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £35.00
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £44.82
% change year-on-year -66.40% +39.45% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,505 23,232 40,651
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.83% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,015 16,421 29,503
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +9.03%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 532 547
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £24.25 £30.54 £19.96
Median hourly rate £42.50 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -

System Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

System Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing System Testing.

System Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing System Testing over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

System Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing System Testing.

System Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (3.70%) CICS
1 2 (3.70%) Confluence
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.85%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (20.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.85%) Markit EDM
2 1 (1.85%) SAP APO
2 1 (1.85%) SAP IBP
2 1 (1.85%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.63%) Dynamics 365
2 9 (16.67%) Azure
3 4 (7.41%) AWS
3 4 (7.41%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 2 (3.70%) Apigee
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 2 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Key Vault
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.85%) Boomi
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.70%) 4G
1 2 (3.70%) 5G
1 2 (3.70%) Network Security
1 2 (3.70%) SSL
1 2 (3.70%) VoIP
2 1 (1.85%) DNS
2 1 (1.85%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.41%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.56%) DB2
2 3 (5.56%) IDMS
3 2 (3.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (1.85%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Power BI
4 1 (1.85%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Jenkins
2 3 (5.56%) Selenium
3 2 (3.70%) Ant
3 2 (3.70%) gulp
3 2 (3.70%) Maven
3 2 (3.70%) SpecFlow
4 1 (1.85%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.85%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.85%) JMeter
4 1 (1.85%) JUnit
4 1 (1.85%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (1.85%) TestNG
4 1 (1.85%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.85%) WebDriver
General
1 12 (22.22%) Marketing
2 10 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 8 (14.81%) Finance
4 6 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.26%) Public Sector
6 4 (7.41%) Military
7 3 (5.56%) Automotive
8 2 (3.70%) Aerospace
8 2 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.85%) Banking
9 1 (1.85%) Electronics
9 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.85%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (29.63%) Consultant
1 16 (29.63%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
2 8 (14.81%) Analyst
2 8 (14.81%) Lead
3 7 (12.96%) Developer
4 5 (9.26%) Integration Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Test Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Tester
5 4 (7.41%) Business Analyst
5 4 (7.41%) Designer
5 4 (7.41%) Lead Consultant
5 4 (7.41%) SQL Developer
6 3 (5.56%) Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Mainframe Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Test Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Test and Integration Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Test Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Test Manager
7 2 (3.70%) Lead Designer
7 2 (3.70%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Node.js
2 3 (5.56%) .NET
2 3 (5.56%) REST
2 3 (5.56%) RESTful
3 2 (3.70%) AngularJS
3 2 (3.70%) CSS
3 2 (3.70%) HTML
3 2 (3.70%) OAuth
3 2 (3.70%) OpenID
3 2 (3.70%) SAML
4 1 (1.85%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.85%) Middleware
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.85%) Playwright
4 1 (1.85%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.37%) Legacy Systems
2 3 (5.56%) Data Structures
2 3 (5.56%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.56%) Product Ownership
2 3 (5.56%) VSAM
3 2 (3.70%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
3 2 (3.70%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.85%) Algorithms
4 1 (1.85%) ASIC
4 1 (1.85%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.85%) FPGA
4 1 (1.85%) IoT
4 1 (1.85%) Private Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) Replication
4 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.85%) Verilog
Operating Systems
1 5 (9.26%) Unix
2 3 (5.56%) Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Android
3 2 (3.70%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (40.74%) End-to-End Testing
1 22 (40.74%) User Acceptance Testing
2 20 (37.04%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) Migration
3 18 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 16 (29.63%) Test Automation
5 15 (27.78%) Data Migration
6 12 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 11 (20.37%) CRM
7 11 (20.37%) Customer Experience
7 11 (20.37%) Customer Insight
7 11 (20.37%) Integration Testing
7 11 (20.37%) Translating Business Requirements
8 8 (14.81%) Requirements Gathering
9 7 (12.96%) Scrum
10 6 (11.11%) Manual Testing
10 6 (11.11%) Test Scripting
10 6 (11.11%) Test Strategy
10 6 (11.11%) Unit Testing
11 5 (9.26%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) SQL
2 6 (11.11%) Java
3 5 (9.26%) JavaScript
4 4 (7.41%) Bash
4 4 (7.41%) Bourne shell
4 4 (7.41%) Korn
4 4 (7.41%) PL/SQL
4 4 (7.41%) Python
5 3 (5.56%) C#
5 3 (5.56%) COBOL
6 2 (3.70%) Assembly Language
6 2 (3.70%) JCL
6 2 (3.70%) PHP
7 1 (1.85%) C
7 1 (1.85%) C++
7 1 (1.85%) Embedded C
7 1 (1.85%) SystemVerilog
7 1 (1.85%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.85%) VB
7 1 (1.85%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 8 (14.81%) SC Cleared
1 8 (14.81%) Security Cleared
2 5 (9.26%) ISTQB
3 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
4 3 (5.56%) Degree
5 1 (1.85%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (12.96%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) Def Stans
3 2 (3.70%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.85%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.85%) PMO
4 1 (1.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (3.70%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle
3 3 (5.56%) IBM
4 2 (3.70%) Google
4 2 (3.70%) SAP
5 1 (1.85%) Avaloq
5 1 (1.85%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.85%) Dell