System Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

System Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West 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 25 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 182 231 230
Rank change year-on-year +49 -1 +11
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 12 19 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.29% 0.25% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.30% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3 15 14
10th Percentile - £29,250 £33,825
25th Percentile £46,250 £31,250 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -15.38%
75th Percentile £53,125 £62,125 £61,250
90th Percentile £55,750 £62,500 -
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
West 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 West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,761 6,284 5,976
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.22% 81.95% 96.82%
Number of salaries quoted 1,511 4,626 3,154
10th Percentile £28,822 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £78,750
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 25 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
Warwickshire +4 8 - - 2
Birmingham +41 4 £47,500 +18.75% 12
System Testing
England

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

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) OCI
2 4 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (16.67%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (16.67%) Robot Framework
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Cloud Specialist
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle Specialist
2 4 (33.33%) Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
2 4 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365 Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Senior UAT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) UAT Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 6 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
3 4 (33.33%) Scenario Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Actionable Insight
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Coaching
4 2 (16.67%) Kanban
4 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Test Management
5 1 (8.33%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) Bash
1 2 (16.67%) C#
1 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 4 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (50.00%) Oracle
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft