System Testing Jobs in the North of England

System Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 268 353 391
Rank change year-on-year +85 +38 -20
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 67 24 46
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.58% 0.14% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 60 19 24
10th Percentile £42,000 £36,120 £32,000
25th Percentile £47,683 £38,066 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,863 £42,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.62% -10.53% +21.02%
75th Percentile £54,793 £51,271 £57,500
90th Percentile - £53,750 £77,715
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
North of England

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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 10,883 14,678 16,285
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 94.84% 82.88% 96.77%
Number of salaries quoted 5,413 11,260 7,878
10th Percentile £25,313 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,574 £37,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £62,500 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £81,250
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 North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing System Testing in the North of England.

Salary trend for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the North of England

System Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the North of England region over the 6 months to 23 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
North West +42 60 £47,863 +19.23% 62
Yorkshire +62 6 £42,000 -11.58% 36
North East - 1 £52,500 - 11
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (1.49%) Confluence
1 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 50 (74.63%) Microsoft Office
1 50 (74.63%) Simulink
2 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.49%) 3ds Max
3 1 (1.49%) Blender
3 1 (1.49%) Maya
3 1 (1.49%) Pro Tools
Business Applications
1 5 (7.46%) Dynamics AX
1 5 (7.46%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (5.97%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.46%) Boomi
1 5 (7.46%) Power Platform
1 5 (7.46%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
1 5 (7.46%) SAP Commerce Cloud
2 1 (1.49%) Adobe Creative Cloud
2 1 (1.49%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (7.46%) VPN
2 4 (5.97%) Intranet
2 4 (5.97%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.49%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.49%) FlexRay
3 1 (1.49%) MQTT
3 1 (1.49%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.46%) Power BI
1 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 5 (7.46%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Cucumber
1 4 (5.97%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.49%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) JIRA
General
1 54 (80.60%) Social Skills
2 50 (74.63%) Aerospace
3 10 (14.93%) Aeronautics
4 9 (13.43%) Finance
5 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (7.46%) Retail
7 4 (5.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.97%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.49%) Automotive
8 1 (1.49%) Games
Job Titles
1 51 (76.12%) Senior
1 51 (76.12%) Systems Engineer
2 50 (74.63%) Lead
2 50 (74.63%) Lead Systems Engineer
2 50 (74.63%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 50 (74.63%) Team Leader
3 9 (13.43%) Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Applications Support
4 5 (7.46%) Applications Support Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Support Analyst
4 5 (7.46%) Test Engineer
5 4 (5.97%) Finance Systems Analyst
5 4 (5.97%) Financial Analyst
5 4 (5.97%) Systems Analyst
5 4 (5.97%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) Instructor
6 1 (1.49%) Integration Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) Messaging Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) Senior Messaging Engineer
6 1 (1.49%) Systems Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) EDI
2 1 (1.49%) Unity (Game Engine)
2 1 (1.49%) Unreal Engine
2 1 (1.49%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.49%) Infotainment
2 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (1.49%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 4 (5.97%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (80.60%) Coaching
1 54 (80.60%) Project Management
2 51 (76.12%) Agile
3 50 (74.63%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
3 50 (74.63%) Safety Engineering
3 50 (74.63%) SysML
3 50 (74.63%) Systems Engineering
4 40 (59.70%) Software Delivery
4 40 (59.70%) Technical Leadership
5 25 (37.31%) Business Continuity
5 25 (37.31%) Line Management
6 20 (29.85%) Situational Awareness
7 14 (20.90%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.93%) Backlog Management
8 10 (14.93%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 10 (14.93%) Cost Control
8 10 (14.93%) Mathematics
8 10 (14.93%) Performance Management
8 10 (14.93%) Physics
8 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.97%) Bash
1 4 (5.97%) JavaScript
1 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
1 4 (5.97%) Python
Qualifications
1 54 (80.60%) BPSS Clearance
2 16 (23.88%) Degree
3 1 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.96%) QA
2 1 (1.49%) SLA
Vendors
1 60 (89.55%) Microsoft
2 50 (74.63%) MathWorks
3 9 (13.43%) SAP
4 5 (7.46%) Dell
5 4 (5.97%) Hyperion
5 4 (5.97%) Oracle
6 1 (1.49%) Adobe
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco