System Testing Contracts in England

System Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 420 450 526
Rank change year-on-year +30 +76 -48
Contract jobs citing System Testing 111 197 259
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.45% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 157 174
10th Percentile £356 £350 £325
25th Percentile £413 £456 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £535 £510
Median % change year-on-year -6.31% +4.90% +20.00%
75th Percentile £579 £619 £613
90th Percentile £639 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £45.50 £20.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.13 £25.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.82% +57.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £21.50 £60.63 £43.38
90th Percentile - £62.50 £48.40
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £44.82
% change year-on-year -61.82% +22.71% -0.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,426 43,648 64,496
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.34% 90.08% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,611 30,630 45,872
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £450 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,247 1,533 1,757
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.13 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Testing in England.

Daily rate trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in England

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Testing in England.

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in England

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +58 35 £443 -16.71% 19
South West -18 23 £525 -11.36% 15
North of England +45 21 £500 - 12
Midlands +20 18 £425 +18.06% 26
South East -2 12 £581 +10.57% 17
Yorkshire +25 11 £550 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +17 11 £500 +29.03% 17
North West +25 10 £500 - 8
East Midlands +23 7 £363 +0.69% 9
East of England +9 3 £425 -13.27% 4
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 8 (7.21%) Confluence
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.80%) CMS
4 1 (0.90%) SAS
4 1 (0.90%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.90%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.90%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (4.50%) Markit EDM
3 4 (3.60%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.80%) Loan IQ
5 1 (0.90%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.90%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.90%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.90%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 17 (15.32%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (4.50%) AWS
3 4 (3.60%) Azure
4 3 (2.70%) Apigee
5 2 (1.80%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.80%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.80%) Veeva
5 2 (1.80%) WhatsApp
6 1 (0.90%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.90%) Boomi
6 1 (0.90%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.90%) OCI
6 1 (0.90%) PaaS
6 1 (0.90%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.90%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.50%) VSAN
2 3 (2.70%) Skype
2 3 (2.70%) SSL
3 2 (1.80%) 4G
3 2 (1.80%) 5G
3 2 (1.80%) Network Security
3 2 (1.80%) VoIP
4 1 (0.90%) DHCP
4 1 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.90%) LAN
4 1 (0.90%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (4.50%) Oracle Database
1 5 (4.50%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.60%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.70%) Apache Cassandra
4 1 (0.90%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.90%) Power BI
4 1 (0.90%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (15.32%) JIRA
2 8 (7.21%) JUnit
3 5 (4.50%) Selenium
4 4 (3.60%) Ant
4 4 (3.60%) Jenkins
5 3 (2.70%) Git
5 3 (2.70%) gulp
5 3 (2.70%) Maven
6 2 (1.80%) Postman
6 2 (1.80%) REST Assured
6 2 (1.80%) WebDriver
7 1 (0.90%) Appium
7 1 (0.90%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.90%) Gerrit
7 1 (0.90%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.90%) Rational Performance Tester
7 1 (0.90%) Serenity BDD
7 1 (0.90%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.90%) TestNG
7 1 (0.90%) Zephyr
General
1 32 (28.83%) Analytical Skills
2 31 (27.93%) Social Skills
3 25 (22.52%) Finance
4 11 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 10 (9.01%) Back Office
6 8 (7.21%) Marketing
7 6 (5.41%) Front Office
8 5 (4.50%) Automotive
8 5 (4.50%) Military
9 4 (3.60%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.80%) General Ledger
10 2 (1.80%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.80%) Retail
10 2 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.90%) Banking
11 1 (0.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.90%) Law
11 1 (0.90%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 33 (29.73%) Analyst
2 19 (17.12%) Consultant
3 14 (12.61%) Developer
3 14 (12.61%) Test Analyst
4 13 (11.71%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
5 12 (10.81%) Test Engineer
6 8 (7.21%) Lead
6 8 (7.21%) SQL Developer
7 7 (6.31%) Senior
7 7 (6.31%) Tester
8 6 (5.41%) Applications Support
9 5 (4.50%) Business Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Data Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Designer
9 5 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (4.50%) Oracle Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Support Analyst
9 5 (4.50%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 4 (3.60%) Product Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.31%) Gherkin
2 5 (4.50%) Flash
2 5 (4.50%) Node.js
3 4 (3.60%) JSON
3 4 (3.60%) XML
4 3 (2.70%) .NET
4 3 (2.70%) CSS
4 3 (2.70%) HTML
4 3 (2.70%) OAuth
4 3 (2.70%) OpenID
4 3 (2.70%) RESTful
4 3 (2.70%) SAML
5 2 (1.80%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.80%) REST
6 1 (0.90%) Middleware
6 1 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.90%) Playwright
6 1 (0.90%) PySpark
6 1 (0.90%) pytest
6 1 (0.90%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (9.01%) Product Ownership
2 9 (8.11%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 6 (5.41%) Mobile App
3 6 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 5 (4.50%) Clustering
5 4 (3.60%) Derivative
5 4 (3.60%) Equities
5 4 (3.60%) Fixed Income
5 4 (3.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 4 (3.60%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 3 (2.70%) PKI
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.80%) CCTV
7 2 (1.80%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.80%) Life Science
7 2 (1.80%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (0.90%) Algorithms
8 1 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (11.71%) Unix
2 10 (9.01%) Linux
3 9 (8.11%) Windows
4 3 (2.70%) Android
4 3 (2.70%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.70%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.80%) CentOS
6 1 (0.90%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (36.04%) Agile
2 31 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (27.93%) User Acceptance Testing
3 25 (22.52%) Scrum
3 25 (22.52%) Software Testing
4 24 (21.62%) Migration
5 23 (20.72%) Test Automation
6 18 (16.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 18 (16.22%) Test Scripting
7 14 (12.61%) Data Migration
7 14 (12.61%) Integration Testing
7 14 (12.61%) Unit Testing
7 14 (12.61%) Validation
8 13 (11.71%) Kanban
9 12 (10.81%) Manual Testing
10 11 (9.91%) Test Strategy
11 10 (9.01%) Acceptance Criteria
11 10 (9.01%) API Testing
11 10 (9.01%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (9.01%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 21 (18.92%) SQL
2 15 (13.51%) Java
3 7 (6.31%) Bash
3 7 (6.31%) Bourne shell
3 7 (6.31%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.31%) Korn
3 7 (6.31%) PL/SQL
4 6 (5.41%) Python
5 4 (3.60%) C++
5 4 (3.60%) T-SQL
6 3 (2.70%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.80%) C
7 2 (1.80%) C#
7 2 (1.80%) PHP
8 1 (0.90%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.90%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (18.02%) Security Cleared
2 19 (17.12%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.41%) Degree
4 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (5.41%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (5.41%) CCNA
5 6 (5.41%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (4.50%) ISTQB
6 5 (4.50%) Master's Degree
6 5 (4.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (3.60%) Chartered Engineer
8 3 (2.70%) MCSE
9 2 (1.80%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.90%) CCNP
10 1 (0.90%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.90%) ISEB
10 1 (0.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.90%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.90%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.61%) QA
2 4 (3.60%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.60%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.70%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.80%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.90%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (5.41%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (4.50%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (4.50%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (4.50%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.60%) Control-M
3 3 (2.70%) Ansible
3 3 (2.70%) WSUS
4 1 (0.90%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.90%) SCCM
4 1 (0.90%) SCOM
Vendors
1 21 (18.92%) Microsoft
2 19 (17.12%) Oracle
3 6 (5.41%) Atlassian
3 6 (5.41%) Cisco
3 6 (5.41%) SAP
3 6 (5.41%) VMware
4 3 (2.70%) Google
5 2 (1.80%) HP
5 2 (1.80%) Murex
5 2 (1.80%) Panasonic
5 2 (1.80%) Red Hat
5 2 (1.80%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.90%) Avaya
6 1 (0.90%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.90%) Dell
6 1 (0.90%) Genesys
6 1 (0.90%) IBM
6 1 (0.90%) Peregrine
6 1 (0.90%) Remedy
6 1 (0.90%) Siemens