System Testing Contracts in London

System Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 351 409 501
Rank change year-on-year +58 +92 -72
Contract jobs citing System Testing 35 78 115
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.20% 0.30% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.33% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 68 73
10th Percentile £358 £309 £420
25th Percentile £400 £417 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £443 £531 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.71% -3.41% +10.00%
75th Percentile £544 £688 £725
90th Percentile £638 £779 £838
England median daily rate £501 £535 £510
% change year-on-year -6.31% +4.90% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £47.50 -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -61.82% +57.14% -22.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,484 23,644 35,916
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.60% 90.88% 92.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,107 17,068 26,253
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £593 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.17% +3.04% +9.52%
75th Percentile £681 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 308 267 420
10th Percentile £15.81 £18.30 £17.24
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.45 £23.91
Median hourly rate £27.92 £37.34 £36.41
Median % change year-on-year -25.23% +2.55% +13.78%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.88 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.83 £82.50 £67.56
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.11% +46.16% +8.70%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in London

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Central London +26 3 £425 -21.48% 4
South London +7 2 £425 - 1
East London -3 1 £435 -20.91% 1
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (5.71%) CMS
2 1 (2.86%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (14.29%) Markit EDM
2 4 (11.43%) thinkFolio
3 2 (5.71%) Loan IQ
4 1 (2.86%) SAP LE
4 1 (2.86%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.57%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.71%) AWS
2 2 (5.71%) Azure
2 2 (5.71%) WhatsApp
3 1 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.86%) Boomi
3 1 (2.86%) OCI
3 1 (2.86%) PaaS
3 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.86%) PowerApps
3 1 (2.86%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (11.43%) RDBMS
1 4 (11.43%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.86%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 5 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (5.71%) WebDriver
4 1 (2.86%) Appium
4 1 (2.86%) ClearCase
4 1 (2.86%) ClearQuest
4 1 (2.86%) Gerrit
4 1 (2.86%) Git
4 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
4 1 (2.86%) JMeter
4 1 (2.86%) JUnit
4 1 (2.86%) LoadRunner
4 1 (2.86%) Oracle Forms
4 1 (2.86%) Postman
4 1 (2.86%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (2.86%) Rational Performance Tester
4 1 (2.86%) Serenity BDD
4 1 (2.86%) SpecFlow
4 1 (2.86%) TestNG
4 1 (2.86%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (40.00%) Finance
2 12 (34.29%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (28.57%) Back Office
3 10 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 6 (17.14%) Front Office
5 2 (5.71%) General Ledger
5 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.71%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Law
6 1 (2.86%) Local Government
6 1 (2.86%) Military
6 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (45.71%) Analyst
2 6 (17.14%) Applications Support
3 5 (14.29%) Senior
3 5 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Test Analyst
3 5 (14.29%) Tester
4 4 (11.43%) Applications Support Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) Consultant
4 4 (11.43%) Senior Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) thinkFolio Analyst
4 4 (11.43%) thinkFolio Support
5 3 (8.57%) Developer
5 3 (8.57%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (8.57%) Senior Test Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Murex Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Project Engineer
7 1 (2.86%) QA Tester
7 1 (2.86%) Systems Support Analyst
7 1 (2.86%) Technical Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) JSON
1 4 (11.43%) XML
2 2 (5.71%) REST
3 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (2.86%) Playwright
3 1 (2.86%) PySpark
3 1 (2.86%) pytest
3 1 (2.86%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Derivative
1 4 (11.43%) Equities
1 4 (11.43%) Fixed Income
1 4 (11.43%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 4 (11.43%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 2 (5.71%) CCTV
2 2 (5.71%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (5.71%) Mobile App
2 2 (5.71%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) NHS
3 1 (2.86%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Replication
3 1 (2.86%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Unix
3 4 (11.43%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (37.14%) Problem-Solving
2 12 (34.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 11 (31.43%) Agile
3 11 (31.43%) Migration
4 9 (25.71%) Integration Testing
4 9 (25.71%) Test Automation
5 6 (17.14%) Manual Testing
5 6 (17.14%) Scrum
6 5 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (14.29%) Test Strategy
7 4 (11.43%) API Testing
7 4 (11.43%) Asset Management
7 4 (11.43%) Batch Scheduling
7 4 (11.43%) Data Integration
7 4 (11.43%) Data Management
7 4 (11.43%) Investment Management
7 4 (11.43%) Performance Analysis
7 4 (11.43%) Regression Testing
7 4 (11.43%) Risk Management
7 4 (11.43%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) SQL
2 4 (11.43%) Java
2 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
3 2 (5.71%) C#
3 2 (5.71%) Python
4 1 (2.86%) C
4 1 (2.86%) C++
4 1 (2.86%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.86%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.86%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (11.43%) Degree
1 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
1 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.86%) ISEB
3 1 (2.86%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.86%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) QA
2 4 (11.43%) Accessibility
2 4 (11.43%) ISO 15022
3 2 (5.71%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Control-M
2 1 (2.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle
3 3 (8.57%) SAP
4 2 (5.71%) HP
4 2 (5.71%) Murex
4 2 (5.71%) Panasonic
4 2 (5.71%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.86%) Avaloq
5 1 (2.86%) Dell
5 1 (2.86%) IBM
5 1 (2.86%) Sparx