System Testing Contracts

System Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 453 468 539
Rank change year-on-year +15 +71 -16
Contract jobs citing System Testing 129 240 311
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.41% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.46% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 192 214
10th Percentile £358 £355 £306
25th Percentile £425 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £566 £610 £588
90th Percentile £638 £724 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -4.76% +16.67% +23.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 8
10th Percentile - £45.50 £29.38
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.13 £35.00
Median hourly rate £21.00 £55.00 £44.82
Median % change year-on-year -61.82% +22.71% -0.40%
75th Percentile £21.50 £60.63 £48.75
90th Percentile - £62.50 £49.65
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £45.14
% change year-on-year -66.40% +38.46% +0.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,090 51,996 79,100
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,884 36,030 55,497
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,721 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.13 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 10 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
England +8 112 £500 -4.76% 93
UK excluding London +1 86 £500 -4.76% 76
Work from Home +87 50 £500 - 50
London +50 35 £435 -19.07% 16
South West -10 23 £525 -10.18% 19
North of England +50 22 £500 - 10
Midlands +23 17 £463 +28.47% 19
North West +35 13 £500 - 6
South East -3 12 £581 +10.57% 23
West Midlands +10 11 £500 +29.87% 11
Yorkshire +23 9 £538 +7.50% 3
Scotland +24 7 £475 -5.00% 2
East Midlands +27 6 £363 +0.69% 8
East of England +12 4 £400 -20.00% 6
Northern Ireland +7 2 - -

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (6.98%) Confluence
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.55%) CMS
3 2 (1.55%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) SAS
4 1 (0.78%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (0.78%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 12 (9.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (3.10%) Markit EDM
3 3 (2.33%) thinkFolio
4 2 (1.55%) Loan IQ
4 2 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.78%) SAP APO
5 1 (0.78%) SAP CO
5 1 (0.78%) SAP EWM
5 1 (0.78%) SAP FI
5 1 (0.78%) SAP FI/CO
5 1 (0.78%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.78%) SAP LE
5 1 (0.78%) SAP MM
5 1 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.28%) Dynamics 365
2 8 (6.20%) Azure
3 5 (3.88%) AWS
4 4 (3.10%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.33%) Apigee
5 3 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (2.33%) PowerApps
5 3 (2.33%) Veeva
6 2 (1.55%) WhatsApp
7 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
7 1 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.78%) Boomi
7 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.78%) OCI
7 1 (0.78%) PaaS
7 1 (0.78%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) VSAN
2 3 (2.33%) Skype
2 3 (2.33%) SSL
3 2 (1.55%) 4G
3 2 (1.55%) 5G
3 2 (1.55%) Network Security
3 2 (1.55%) VoIP
4 1 (0.78%) DHCP
4 1 (0.78%) DNS
4 1 (0.78%) LAN
4 1 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.10%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.78%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 17 (13.18%) JIRA
2 8 (6.20%) Selenium
3 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.88%) JUnit
4 5 (3.88%) Maven
5 4 (3.10%) Ant
5 4 (3.10%) Visual Studio
6 3 (2.33%) Git
6 3 (2.33%) gulp
7 2 (1.55%) NUnit
7 2 (1.55%) Postman
7 2 (1.55%) REST Assured
7 2 (1.55%) SpecFlow
7 2 (1.55%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.78%) ClearCase
8 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
8 1 (0.78%) Rational Performance Tester
8 1 (0.78%) TestNG
General
1 33 (25.58%) Analytical Skills
1 33 (25.58%) Social Skills
2 25 (19.38%) Finance
3 14 (10.85%) Public Sector
4 12 (9.30%) Marketing
5 9 (6.98%) Back Office
6 6 (4.65%) Front Office
7 5 (3.88%) Military
8 4 (3.10%) Automotive
9 3 (2.33%) Aerospace
9 3 (2.33%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.55%) Retail
10 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
11 1 (0.78%) Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.78%) Law
11 1 (0.78%) Local Government
11 1 (0.78%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 42 (32.56%) Analyst
2 23 (17.83%) Consultant
3 17 (13.18%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
4 16 (12.40%) Developer
5 14 (10.85%) Test Analyst
6 11 (8.53%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.75%) SQL Developer
7 10 (7.75%) Test Engineer
8 9 (6.98%) Lead
8 9 (6.98%) Tester
9 7 (5.43%) Senior
10 5 (3.88%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.88%) Designer
10 5 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.88%) Product Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Support Analyst
10 5 (3.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) Data Analyst
11 4 (3.10%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (4.65%) .NET
2 5 (3.88%) Flash
2 5 (3.88%) Node.js
3 4 (3.10%) Gherkin
3 4 (3.10%) JSON
3 4 (3.10%) XML
4 3 (2.33%) CSS
4 3 (2.33%) HTML
4 3 (2.33%) OAuth
4 3 (2.33%) OpenID
4 3 (2.33%) REST
4 3 (2.33%) RESTful
4 3 (2.33%) SAML
5 2 (1.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
6 1 (0.78%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) PySpark
6 1 (0.78%) pytest
6 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (10.08%) Legacy Systems
2 8 (6.20%) Product Ownership
3 7 (5.43%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.65%) Mobile App
4 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
5 5 (3.88%) Clustering
6 4 (3.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 3 (2.33%) Derivative
7 3 (2.33%) Equities
7 3 (2.33%) Fixed Income
7 3 (2.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (2.33%) PKI
8 2 (1.55%) CCTV
8 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
8 2 (1.55%) Life Science
8 2 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.78%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (0.78%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.63%) Unix
2 12 (9.30%) Linux
3 9 (6.98%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Android
4 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.33%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.33%) Windows Server
4 3 (2.33%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.55%) CentOS
6 1 (0.78%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.33%) Agile
1 43 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 35 (27.13%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (23.26%) Migration
4 28 (21.71%) Software Testing
5 26 (20.16%) End-to-End Testing
6 24 (18.60%) Scrum
6 24 (18.60%) Test Automation
7 20 (15.50%) Integration Testing
8 18 (13.95%) Data Migration
9 16 (12.40%) Validation
10 15 (11.63%) Test Scripting
11 14 (10.85%) Translating Business Requirements
12 13 (10.08%) Manual Testing
12 13 (10.08%) Requirements Gathering
13 12 (9.30%) CRM
14 11 (8.53%) Customer Experience
14 11 (8.53%) Customer Insight
14 11 (8.53%) Test Strategy
15 10 (7.75%) Kanban
Programming Languages
1 22 (17.05%) SQL
2 14 (10.85%) Java
3 9 (6.98%) Bash
3 9 (6.98%) Bourne shell
3 9 (6.98%) Korn
3 9 (6.98%) PL/SQL
4 7 (5.43%) JavaScript
5 6 (4.65%) Python
6 5 (3.88%) C#
7 4 (3.10%) T-SQL
8 3 (2.33%) C++
8 3 (2.33%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.55%) C
9 2 (1.55%) PHP
10 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
10 1 (0.78%) VB
10 1 (0.78%) VBA
10 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 21 (16.28%) Security Cleared
2 20 (15.50%) SC Cleared
3 18 (13.95%) Degree
4 8 (6.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.43%) ISTQB
6 6 (4.65%) BPSS Clearance
6 6 (4.65%) CCNA
6 6 (4.65%) Cisco Certification
7 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
7 5 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (3.10%) Chartered Engineer
9 3 (2.33%) MCSE
10 2 (1.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.78%) CCNP
11 1 (0.78%) DV Cleared
11 1 (0.78%) ISEB
11 1 (0.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.78%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (12.40%) QA
2 4 (3.10%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.10%) ISO 15022
3 3 (2.33%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.55%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.55%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.78%) IFRS
5 1 (0.78%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.78%) PMO
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (4.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
2 5 (3.88%) VMware NSX
3 3 (2.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 1 (0.78%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) vCenter Server
2 3 (2.33%) Ansible
2 3 (2.33%) Control-M
2 3 (2.33%) WSUS
3 1 (0.78%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.78%) SCCM
3 1 (0.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (20.93%) Microsoft
2 22 (17.05%) Oracle
3 8 (6.20%) SAP
4 6 (4.65%) Atlassian
4 6 (4.65%) Cisco
4 6 (4.65%) VMware
5 3 (2.33%) Google
5 3 (2.33%) Murex
5 3 (2.33%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.55%) HP
6 2 (1.55%) Panasonic
6 2 (1.55%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.78%) Dell
7 1 (0.78%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.78%) Remedy
7 1 (0.78%) ServiceNow
7 1 (0.78%) Siemens
7 1 (0.78%) SolarWinds
7 1 (0.78%) Sparx
7 1 (0.78%) Veeam