System Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

System Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 309 314 370
Rank change year-on-year +5 +56 -24
Contract jobs citing System Testing 85 132 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% 0.64% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 104 90
10th Percentile £356 £400 £204
25th Percentile £434 £463 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +16.67% +23.29%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £538
90th Percentile £725 £644 £594
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 7
10th Percentile - - £27.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £61.25 £38.38
Median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £45.14
Median % change year-on-year -66.40% +38.46% +0.31%
75th Percentile £21.50 £63.75 £48.75
90th Percentile - - £49.95
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,076 20,688 27,368
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.26% 89.44% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,247 19,122
10th Percentile £250 £258 £235
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,062 1,260 1,365
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.71 £61.50
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK excluding London

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
South West -18 23 £525 -11.36% 16
North of England +45 21 £500 - 12
Midlands +20 18 £425 +18.06% 26
South East -2 12 £581 +10.57% 18
Yorkshire +25 11 £550 +10.00% 3
West Midlands +17 11 £500 +29.03% 17
North West +25 10 £500 - 8
Scotland +28 7 £475 -5.00% 5
East Midlands +23 7 £363 +0.69% 9
East of England +9 3 £425 -13.27% 4
Northern Ireland +4 2 - -
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 9 (10.59%) Confluence
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.18%) Skype for Business
3 1 (1.18%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.18%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (9.41%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.18%) SAP EWM
2 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (16.47%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (5.88%) Azure
3 3 (3.53%) Apigee
3 3 (3.53%) AWS
4 2 (2.35%) Veeva
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.18%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.18%) BrowserStack
5 1 (1.18%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.18%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.88%) VSAN
2 3 (3.53%) Skype
2 3 (3.53%) SSL
3 2 (2.35%) 4G
3 2 (2.35%) 5G
3 2 (2.35%) Network Security
3 2 (2.35%) VoIP
4 1 (1.18%) DHCP
4 1 (1.18%) DNS
4 1 (1.18%) LAN
4 1 (1.18%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Oracle Database
2 3 (3.53%) Apache Cassandra
3 1 (1.18%) Power BI
3 1 (1.18%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (12.94%) JIRA
2 7 (8.24%) JUnit
3 5 (5.88%) Jenkins
3 5 (5.88%) Maven
4 4 (4.71%) Ant
5 3 (3.53%) gulp
6 2 (2.35%) Git
6 2 (2.35%) NUnit
6 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
6 2 (2.35%) Selenium
6 2 (2.35%) Visual Studio
7 1 (1.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (1.18%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.18%) Postman
7 1 (1.18%) Zephyr
General
1 22 (25.88%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.71%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
4 11 (12.94%) Finance
5 8 (9.41%) Marketing
6 5 (5.88%) Automotive
7 4 (4.71%) Aerospace
7 4 (4.71%) Military
8 2 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 23 (27.06%) Analyst
2 15 (17.65%) Consultant
3 12 (14.12%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
3 12 (14.12%) Test Engineer
4 11 (12.94%) Developer
5 9 (10.59%) Test Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.41%) Lead
6 8 (9.41%) SQL Developer
7 5 (5.88%) Data Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Designer
7 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.88%) Oracle Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Product Analyst
7 5 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.71%) Lead Consultant
8 4 (4.71%) Tester
9 3 (3.53%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.24%) Gherkin
2 5 (5.88%) .NET
2 5 (5.88%) Flash
2 5 (5.88%) Node.js
3 3 (3.53%) CSS
3 3 (3.53%) HTML
3 3 (3.53%) OAuth
3 3 (3.53%) OpenID
3 3 (3.53%) RESTful
3 3 (3.53%) SAML
4 2 (2.35%) AngularJS
5 1 (1.18%) Middleware
5 1 (1.18%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.41%) Product Ownership
2 7 (8.24%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (7.06%) Onboarding
4 5 (5.88%) Clustering
4 5 (5.88%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.71%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.53%) PKI
6 3 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
7 2 (2.35%) Life Science
7 2 (2.35%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 1 (1.18%) Algorithms
8 1 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.18%) EPoS
8 1 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.18%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 8 (9.41%) Unix
2 6 (7.06%) Linux
3 5 (5.88%) Windows
4 3 (3.53%) Android
4 3 (3.53%) Apple iOS
4 3 (3.53%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.53%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.53%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (2.35%) CentOS
6 1 (1.18%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (37.65%) Agile
2 25 (29.41%) Software Testing
3 24 (28.24%) User Acceptance Testing
4 19 (22.35%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (22.35%) Scrum
5 18 (21.18%) Test Scripting
6 16 (18.82%) Test Automation
7 15 (17.65%) End-to-End Testing
8 14 (16.47%) Migration
9 12 (14.12%) Unit Testing
10 11 (12.94%) Data Migration
10 11 (12.94%) Kanban
10 11 (12.94%) Requirements Gathering
11 10 (11.76%) Validation
12 9 (10.59%) Service Management
12 9 (10.59%) Waterfall
13 8 (9.41%) Business Analysis
13 8 (9.41%) Critical Thinking
13 8 (9.41%) CRM
14 7 (8.24%) NsoIT
Programming Languages
1 13 (15.29%) Java
2 11 (12.94%) SQL
3 7 (8.24%) Bash
3 7 (8.24%) Bourne shell
3 7 (8.24%) Korn
3 7 (8.24%) PL/SQL
4 6 (7.06%) JavaScript
5 4 (4.71%) Python
6 3 (3.53%) C++
6 3 (3.53%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.35%) C#
7 2 (2.35%) PHP
8 1 (1.18%) C
Qualifications
1 16 (18.82%) Security Cleared
2 15 (17.65%) SC Cleared
3 13 (15.29%) Degree
4 7 (8.24%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (7.06%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (7.06%) CCNA
5 6 (7.06%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.88%) Master's Degree
6 5 (5.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (4.71%) Chartered Engineer
7 4 (4.71%) ISTQB
8 3 (3.53%) MCSE
9 1 (1.18%) CCNP
9 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.94%) QA
2 3 (3.53%) Def Stans
3 2 (2.35%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.18%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.18%) PMO
System Software
1 6 (7.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (5.88%) VMware NSX
3 3 (3.53%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.18%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (1.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (5.88%) vCenter Server
2 3 (3.53%) Ansible
2 3 (3.53%) WSUS
3 1 (1.18%) SCCM
3 1 (1.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 17 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 14 (16.47%) Oracle
3 6 (7.06%) Atlassian
3 6 (7.06%) Cisco
3 6 (7.06%) VMware
4 3 (3.53%) Google
4 3 (3.53%) SAP
5 2 (2.35%) Red Hat
6 1 (1.18%) Avaya
6 1 (1.18%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.18%) Genesys
6 1 (1.18%) Peregrine
6 1 (1.18%) Remedy
6 1 (1.18%) Siemens
6 1 (1.18%) SolarWinds
6 1 (1.18%) Veeam