System Testing Job Trends in Northamptonshire

System Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Northamptonshire requiring System Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 7 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 75 -
Rank change year-on-year +36 - -
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 6 2 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Northamptonshire 1.73% 0.24% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.26% 0.29% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile £32,750 £28,875 -
25th Percentile £33,125 £32,813 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £41,250 -
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £43,125 £50,313 -
90th Percentile £44,250 £54,625 -
East Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £50,500 £48,250
% change year-on-year -25.74% +4.66% +42.96%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 266 686 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 76.66% 81.86% 90.96%
Number of salaries quoted 177 262 243
10th Percentile £26,150 £26,650 £32,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £35,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,500 £45,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% -19.64% +17.89%
75th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £76,240 £75,000 £86,000
East Midlands median annual salary £40,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -15.79% -9.52% +5.00%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in Northamptonshire

System Testing
Salary Trend in Northamptonshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing System Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Northamptonshire citing System Testing

System Testing
Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 7 November 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
Northampton +8 3 - - 1
Daventry - 2 £37,500 -
System Testing
East Midlands

System Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (50.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 3 (50.00%) OneDrive
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) DHCP
1 3 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) ICT Officer
2 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Business Systems Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) CRM
1 3 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) API Integration
3 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Data Collection
3 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (33.33%) Oracle
3 1 (16.67%) Cognos
3 1 (16.67%) IBM