System Testing Jobs in the Midlands

System Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 224 295 280
Rank change year-on-year +71 -15 +8
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 40 28 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.56% 0.23% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.28% 0.51%
Number of salaries quoted 11 23 24
10th Percentile - £29,400 -
25th Percentile £46,250 £35,000 £33,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £42,500 £39,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +7.59% -17.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £59,625 £57,500
90th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £61,250
England median annual salary £47,863 £56,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -14.53% +1.82% -3.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

System Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,511 9,858 8,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.64% 81.50% 96.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,619 7,185 4,441
10th Percentile £27,250 £26,250 £29,750
25th Percentile £33,875 £35,000 £38,302
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,500 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,374 £67,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the Midlands

System Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the Midlands.

Salary trend for System Testing in the Midlands

System Testing
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the Midlands

System Testing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East Midlands +44 28 £47,500 +11.76% 19
West Midlands +52 12 £47,500 -13.64% 23
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) OCI
2 4 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (7.50%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.50%) AWS
4 1 (2.50%) Azure
4 1 (2.50%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (37.50%) TCP/IP
1 15 (37.50%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.50%) Power BI
3 2 (5.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 2 (5.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 15 (37.50%) Cucumber
1 15 (37.50%) Robot Framework
2 7 (17.50%) JIRA
3 2 (5.00%) Selenium
4 1 (2.50%) Git
General
1 24 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 15 (37.50%) Telecoms
3 3 (7.50%) Electronics
3 3 (7.50%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Test Automation Engineer
1 15 (37.50%) Test Engineer
2 12 (30.00%) Cloud Specialist
2 12 (30.00%) Oracle Specialist
3 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Senior
4 6 (15.00%) Test Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Analyst
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Test Analyst
6 3 (7.50%) Reliability Engineer
6 3 (7.50%) Senior Reliability Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Business Intelligence Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Test Data Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Tester
8 1 (2.50%) Principal Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Principal Software Engineer
8 1 (2.50%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) CSS
1 3 (7.50%) HTML
1 3 (7.50%) JSON
1 3 (7.50%) XML
2 2 (5.00%) Ajax
2 2 (5.00%) Bootstrap
2 2 (5.00%) jQuery
2 2 (5.00%) Playwright
2 2 (5.00%) REST
2 2 (5.00%) SOAP
2 2 (5.00%) Web Services
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.50%) Jest
3 1 (2.50%) Puppeteer
3 1 (2.50%) PyTorch
3 1 (2.50%) React
3 1 (2.50%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 15 (37.50%) Linux Command Line
2 13 (32.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) CMDB
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 15 (37.50%) Linux
1 15 (37.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (50.00%) DevOps
1 20 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 20 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 16 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 16 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 15 (37.50%) Coaching
3 15 (37.50%) Test Management
4 4 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
4 4 (10.00%) Project Management
4 4 (10.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 4 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 4 (10.00%) Software Testing
4 4 (10.00%) Test Scripting
4 4 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (7.50%) Agile
5 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (7.50%) Case Management
5 3 (7.50%) Data Analysis
5 3 (7.50%) FMEA
5 3 (7.50%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 18 (45.00%) JavaScript
2 17 (42.50%) PowerShell
3 16 (40.00%) Python
4 15 (37.50%) Bash
5 6 (15.00%) SQL
6 3 (7.50%) C#
7 2 (5.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
7 2 (5.00%) T-SQL
8 1 (2.50%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (45.00%) Degree
2 4 (10.00%) ISTQB
2 4 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (47.50%) QA
2 3 (7.50%) Data Quality
System Software
1 3 (7.50%) Firmware
2 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Oracle
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (7.50%) Minitab
4 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.50%) Cognos
5 1 (2.50%) IBM