System Testing Jobs

System Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for System Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited System Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 675 701 687
Rank change year-on-year +26 -14 +19
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 237 249 681
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.23% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.28% 0.42%
Number of salaries quoted 169 143 376
10th Percentile £33,500 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £38,250 £39,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.51% +20.00%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,125 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,715 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £55,000 £48,250
% change year-on-year -13.64% +13.99% +13.53%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 87,829 90,354 161,874
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 83.68% 95.46% 95.93%
Number of salaries quoted 61,251 54,292 82,971
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.54% +1.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing System Testing over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for System Testing in the UK

System Testing
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +6 209 £56,000 +1.82% 102
UK excluding London -50 168 £47,500 -13.64% 81
Work from Home +80 99 £55,000 - 74
South East +17 70 £60,000 +9.09% 15
London +103 43 £55,000 -7.17% 22
Midlands -29 30 £42,500 -5.56% 30
North of England +14 26 £42,500 -13.16% 16
North West -3 20 £40,144 -27.01% 9
West Midlands -29 20 £55,000 - 15
South West -42 19 £57,500 -3.36% 11
Scotland -51 18 £38,500 -23.00% 10
East Midlands -19 10 £42,500 +7.59% 15
Yorkshire +46 6 £47,500 +23.38% 5
East of England -6 5 £65,000 +4.00% 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 12 (5.06%) ArcGIS
2 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.84%) Anypoint
3 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.42%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (7.59%) Simulink
2 14 (5.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 12 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 16 (6.75%) Workday HCM
2 2 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
2 2 (0.84%) SAP MII
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.42%) Markit EDM
3 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (0.42%) SAP HR
3 1 (0.42%) SAP Payroll
3 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.42%) thinkFolio
3 1 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 17 (7.17%) AWS
1 17 (7.17%) Azure
2 15 (6.33%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (4.64%) SaaS
4 9 (3.80%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (3.80%) Power Platform
5 7 (2.95%) Power Automate
5 7 (2.95%) PowerApps
6 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (1.27%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.84%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (0.84%) Apigee
8 2 (0.84%) GitHub
8 2 (0.84%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Synapse Analytics
9 1 (0.42%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.84%) DNS
1 2 (0.84%) Internet
1 2 (0.84%) Network Security
1 2 (0.84%) Skype
1 2 (0.84%) TCP/IP
1 2 (0.84%) Wireless
1 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
2 1 (0.42%) Modbus
2 1 (0.42%) MQTT
2 1 (0.42%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (8.02%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.33%) MongoDB
2 15 (6.33%) MySQL
2 15 (6.33%) NoSQL
3 13 (5.49%) GIS
3 13 (5.49%) PostgreSQL
4 12 (5.06%) Relational Database
5 10 (4.22%) Geospatial Data
6 9 (3.80%) Power BI
7 6 (2.53%) Redis
8 5 (2.11%) BusinessObjects
9 4 (1.69%) Azure SQL Database
9 4 (1.69%) Electronic Patient Records
10 2 (0.84%) SAP Data Services
11 1 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 1 (0.42%) Delta Lake
11 1 (0.42%) Lumira
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database 12c
11 1 (0.42%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 20 (8.44%) Ant
2 14 (5.91%) Visual Studio
3 6 (2.53%) JIRA
4 5 (2.11%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (1.69%) Postman
6 3 (1.27%) Rational Rhapsody
7 2 (0.84%) Git
7 2 (0.84%) Selenium
8 1 (0.42%) GitLab
8 1 (0.42%) JMeter
8 1 (0.42%) LabVIEW
8 1 (0.42%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.42%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.42%) Zephyr
General
1 102 (43.04%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.14%) Analytical Skills
3 40 (16.88%) Finance
4 15 (6.33%) Manufacturing
5 14 (5.91%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.64%) Front Office
7 10 (4.22%) Marketing
8 9 (3.80%) Electronics
8 9 (3.80%) Telecoms
9 7 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.95%) Military
10 5 (2.11%) Banking
10 5 (2.11%) Retail
11 4 (1.69%) Aviation
11 4 (1.69%) Back Office
11 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 4 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.27%) Legal
12 3 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.84%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 74 (31.22%) Developer
2 41 (17.30%) Analyst
3 32 (13.50%) Software Engineer
4 27 (11.39%) Consultant
5 23 (9.70%) Software Developer
6 20 (8.44%) C++ Developer
6 20 (8.44%) Lead
7 18 (7.59%) Embedded Developer
7 18 (7.59%) Embedded Software Developer
7 18 (7.59%) Functional Consultant
7 18 (7.59%) Test Analyst
8 16 (6.75%) Tester
8 16 (6.75%) Workday Consultant
9 15 (6.33%) Workday Functional Consultant
10 12 (5.06%) Applications Developer
10 12 (5.06%) Software Tester
11 9 (3.80%) .NET Applications Developer
11 9 (3.80%) .NET Developer
11 9 (3.80%) Senior
12 8 (3.38%) Lead Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.08%) .NET
2 26 (10.97%) Hibernate
3 16 (6.75%) AngularJS
4 13 (5.49%) .NET Core
4 13 (5.49%) .NET Framework
4 13 (5.49%) HTML
5 12 (5.06%) XML
6 11 (4.64%) CSS
7 10 (4.22%) JSON
8 9 (3.80%) RESTful
9 7 (2.95%) ASP.NET
9 7 (2.95%) React
9 7 (2.95%) WCF
10 6 (2.53%) Blazor
10 6 (2.53%) HTML5
10 6 (2.53%) Node.js
10 6 (2.53%) PostGIS
10 6 (2.53%) Svelte
10 6 (2.53%) Vue
11 5 (2.11%) GeoJSON
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (3.80%) NHS
3 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.53%) SCADA
5 5 (2.11%) Data Structures
5 5 (2.11%) Product Ownership
5 5 (2.11%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.69%) AS400
7 3 (1.27%) Derivative
7 3 (1.27%) Equities
7 3 (1.27%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.27%) Wiki
8 2 (0.84%) BYOD
8 2 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.84%) FMCG
8 2 (0.84%) Online Banking
8 2 (0.84%) PKI
8 2 (0.84%) Renewable Energy
9 1 (0.42%) IoT
9 1 (0.42%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 59 (24.89%) Linux
2 53 (22.36%) Windows
3 21 (8.86%) Embedded Linux
4 8 (3.38%) Unix
5 5 (2.11%) Windows 10
5 5 (2.11%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (50.21%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (26.16%) Test Automation
3 52 (21.94%) Software Engineering
4 50 (21.10%) User Acceptance Testing
5 47 (19.83%) Agile
6 43 (18.14%) DevOps
7 39 (16.46%) Software Testing
8 34 (14.35%) Code Quality
9 30 (12.66%) Continuous Integration
10 28 (11.81%) Collaborative Working
10 28 (11.81%) Multithreading
11 25 (10.55%) Computer Science
11 25 (10.55%) Migration
12 23 (9.70%) Project Management
12 23 (9.70%) Regression Testing
12 23 (9.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (9.28%) Actionable Insight
13 22 (9.28%) Unit Testing
14 21 (8.86%) OO
15 19 (8.02%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 67 (28.27%) Java
2 59 (24.89%) SQL
3 56 (23.63%) C++
4 54 (22.78%) C#
5 50 (21.10%) Python
6 41 (17.30%) JavaScript
7 25 (10.55%) C
8 11 (4.64%) Rust
9 8 (3.38%) VB
10 7 (2.95%) Ada
11 5 (2.11%) MATLAB
12 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
12 4 (1.69%) RPG
12 4 (1.69%) VBA
13 2 (0.84%) Apex Code
13 2 (0.84%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.84%) VB.NET
14 1 (0.42%) ABAP
14 1 (0.42%) COBOL
14 1 (0.42%) PHP
Qualifications
1 78 (32.91%) Security Cleared
2 50 (21.10%) Degree
3 37 (15.61%) SC Cleared
4 24 (10.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 22 (9.28%) BPSS Clearance
6 18 (7.59%) DV Cleared
7 10 (4.22%) ISEB
8 3 (1.27%) HND
8 3 (1.27%) ISTQB
8 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (0.84%) CISSP
9 2 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (0.84%) MCSE
10 1 (0.42%) CBAP
10 1 (0.42%) Chartered Engineer
10 1 (0.42%) HNC
10 1 (0.42%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.42%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (13.08%) QA
2 4 (1.69%) Data Quality
3 3 (1.27%) Def Stans
3 3 (1.27%) MISRA
4 2 (0.84%) Accessibility
4 2 (0.84%) GDPR
4 2 (0.84%) GRC
4 2 (0.84%) SLA
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 13485
5 1 (0.42%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 6 (2.53%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.27%) Control-M
2 2 (0.84%) WSUS
3 1 (0.42%) Functional Safety
Vendors
1 22 (9.28%) Microsoft
1 22 (9.28%) Oracle
2 18 (7.59%) Workday
2 18 (7.59%) Xilinx
3 16 (6.75%) SAP
4 14 (5.91%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.95%) ESRI
6 4 (1.69%) IBM
7 3 (1.27%) AVEVA
8 2 (0.84%) Adaptive Insights
8 2 (0.84%) Jaspersoft
8 2 (0.84%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.84%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.42%) Allen-Bradley
9 1 (0.42%) Ariba
9 1 (0.42%) Concur
9 1 (0.42%) Databricks
9 1 (0.42%) HP
9 1 (0.42%) Rockwell
9 1 (0.42%) Talend