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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 450 463 528
Rank change year-on-year +13 +65 +20
Contract jobs citing System Testing 129 225 333
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.30% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.44% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 178 218
10th Percentile £358 £400 £324
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +9.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £582 £612 £598
90th Percentile £644 £716 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £450
% change year-on-year - +16.67% +24.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 6
10th Percentile - £45.50 £25.63
25th Percentile £20.50 £48.13 £36.69
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 £48.55
90th Percentile - £62.50 £48.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £62.50 £44.82
% change year-on-year -66.40% +39.45% -1.49%

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 36,816 50,571 79,556
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.44% 89.70% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,638 35,025 55,934
10th Percentile £300 £325 £348
25th Percentile £413 £438 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £644
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,533 1,671 1,865
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.57 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +9.70%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -4.88%

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 2 June 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 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +19 112 £520 -5.45% 107
UK excluding London -6 80 £525 - 84
Work from Home +83 45 £503 -4.29% 51
London +71 39 £435 -20.91% 25
North of England +45 22 £550 +10.00% 15
South West -22 22 £525 -8.70% 11
Midlands +23 15 £500 +8.11% 30
Yorkshire +29 13 £550 +10.00% 4
South East -13 11 £590 +9.31% 18
West Midlands +8 10 £518 +12.00% 15
North West +24 9 £500 - 9
Scotland +24 5 £488 -2.50% 11
East Midlands - 5 £363 - 15
East of England +7 3 £425 -14.14% 2
Northern Ireland +4 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 8 (6.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.55%) CMS
2 2 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.78%) SAS
3 1 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.78%) WebLogic
Applications
1 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.88%) Dynamics CRM
1 5 (3.88%) Markit EDM
2 4 (3.10%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (3.10%) thinkFolio
3 2 (1.55%) Loan IQ
3 2 (1.55%) SAP CO
3 2 (1.55%) SAP FI
3 2 (1.55%) SAP FI/CO
4 1 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.78%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.78%) SAP APO
4 1 (0.78%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.78%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.78%) SAP IBP
4 1 (0.78%) SAP LE
4 1 (0.78%) SAP MM
4 1 (0.78%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 13 (10.08%) Dynamics 365
2 5 (3.88%) AWS
2 5 (3.88%) Azure
3 3 (2.33%) Apigee
4 2 (1.55%) Power Automate
4 2 (1.55%) Power Platform
4 2 (1.55%) PowerApps
4 2 (1.55%) Veeva
4 2 (1.55%) WhatsApp
5 1 (0.78%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Cognitive Search
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (0.78%) Boomi
5 1 (0.78%) BrowserStack
5 1 (0.78%) OCI
5 1 (0.78%) PaaS
5 1 (0.78%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) VSAN
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%) Skype
3 2 (1.55%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.88%) Oracle Database
1 5 (3.88%) Relational Database
2 4 (3.10%) RDBMS
3 3 (2.33%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.55%) Power BI
4 2 (1.55%) SQL Server
5 1 (0.78%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.78%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.78%) Ingres
5 1 (0.78%) SAP BW
5 1 (0.78%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.78%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (13.18%) JIRA
2 10 (7.75%) JUnit
3 7 (5.43%) Selenium
4 6 (4.65%) Jenkins
5 5 (3.88%) Maven
6 4 (3.10%) Ant
7 3 (2.33%) Git
7 3 (2.33%) gulp
7 3 (2.33%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.55%) NUnit
8 2 (1.55%) Postman
8 2 (1.55%) REST Assured
8 2 (1.55%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 1 (0.78%) ClearCase
9 1 (0.78%) JMeter
9 1 (0.78%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.78%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.78%) Rational Performance Tester
9 1 (0.78%) TestNG
General
1 37 (28.68%) Social Skills
2 36 (27.91%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (21.71%) Finance
4 14 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 10 (7.75%) Back Office
6 7 (5.43%) Front Office
7 5 (3.88%) Marketing
7 5 (3.88%) Military
8 4 (3.10%) Aerospace
8 4 (3.10%) Automotive
9 3 (2.33%) General Ledger
9 3 (2.33%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.33%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (2.33%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.55%) Local Government
10 2 (1.55%) Retail
11 1 (0.78%) Banking
11 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.78%) Law
11 1 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 40 (31.01%) Analyst
2 21 (16.28%) Consultant
3 19 (14.73%) Developer
4 14 (10.85%) Test Analyst
5 13 (10.08%) Test Engineer
6 10 (7.75%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
6 10 (7.75%) SQL Developer
7 9 (6.98%) Business Analyst
7 9 (6.98%) Lead
7 9 (6.98%) Tester
8 6 (4.65%) Applications Support
8 6 (4.65%) Senior
9 5 (3.88%) Data Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Designer
9 5 (3.88%) Functional Consultant
9 5 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (3.88%) Oracle Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Product Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (3.88%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.98%) Gherkin
2 5 (3.88%) .NET
2 5 (3.88%) Flash
2 5 (3.88%) Node.js
2 5 (3.88%) XML
3 4 (3.10%) CSS
3 4 (3.10%) HTML
3 4 (3.10%) JSON
4 3 (2.33%) OAuth
4 3 (2.33%) OpenID
4 3 (2.33%) RESTful
4 3 (2.33%) SAML
5 2 (1.55%) AngularJS
5 2 (1.55%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (1.55%) REST
5 2 (1.55%) SOAP
6 1 (0.78%) Middleware
6 1 (0.78%) PySpark
6 1 (0.78%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.53%) Product Ownership
2 6 (4.65%) Legacy Systems
2 6 (4.65%) Management Information System
2 6 (4.65%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.65%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.88%) Clustering
3 5 (3.88%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (3.10%) Derivative
4 4 (3.10%) Equities
4 4 (3.10%) Fixed Income
4 4 (3.10%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (3.10%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 4 (3.10%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (1.55%) CCTV
5 2 (1.55%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.55%) Life Science
5 2 (1.55%) PKI
6 1 (0.78%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.78%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.63%) Unix
2 12 (9.30%) Linux
3 8 (6.20%) Windows
4 3 (2.33%) Android
4 3 (2.33%) Apple iOS
5 2 (1.55%) CentOS
5 2 (1.55%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.55%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (35.66%) Agile
2 36 (27.91%) User Acceptance Testing
3 33 (25.58%) Problem-Solving
3 33 (25.58%) Software Testing
4 29 (22.48%) Scrum
5 28 (21.71%) Test Automation
6 26 (20.16%) Migration
7 22 (17.05%) Test Scripting
8 19 (14.73%) End-to-End Testing
8 19 (14.73%) Integration Testing
9 16 (12.40%) Unit Testing
10 15 (11.63%) Validation
11 14 (10.85%) Kanban
11 14 (10.85%) Requirements Gathering
12 12 (9.30%) Data Migration
13 11 (8.53%) Acceptance Criteria
13 11 (8.53%) Manual Testing
13 11 (8.53%) Software Delivery
14 10 (7.75%) API Testing
14 10 (7.75%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.83%) SQL
2 19 (14.73%) Java
3 9 (6.98%) Bash
3 9 (6.98%) Bourne shell
3 9 (6.98%) Korn
3 9 (6.98%) PL/SQL
4 8 (6.20%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.43%) Python
6 4 (3.10%) C++
6 4 (3.10%) T-SQL
7 3 (2.33%) C
7 3 (2.33%) C#
8 2 (1.55%) PHP
8 2 (1.55%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.78%) Perl
9 1 (0.78%) VB
9 1 (0.78%) VBA
9 1 (0.78%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 19 (14.73%) SC Cleared
1 19 (14.73%) Security Cleared
2 18 (13.95%) Degree
3 7 (5.43%) BPSS Clearance
3 7 (5.43%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (3.88%) CCNA
4 5 (3.88%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (3.88%) Master's Degree
4 5 (3.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 4 (3.10%) Chartered Engineer
5 4 (3.10%) ISTQB
6 3 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.55%) MCSE
8 1 (0.78%) ISEB
8 1 (0.78%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.18%) 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%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.78%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) VMware ESXi
1 5 (3.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (3.88%) VMware NSX
2 2 (1.55%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.88%) vCenter Server
2 4 (3.10%) Control-M
3 3 (2.33%) Ansible
4 2 (1.55%) WSUS
5 1 (0.78%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (18.60%) Microsoft
2 23 (17.83%) Oracle
3 13 (10.08%) SAP
4 5 (3.88%) Atlassian
4 5 (3.88%) Cisco
4 5 (3.88%) 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%) Ariba
7 1 (0.78%) Avaloq
7 1 (0.78%) Avaya
7 1 (0.78%) Dell
7 1 (0.78%) Genesys
7 1 (0.78%) Peregrine
7 1 (0.78%) Remedy
7 1 (0.78%) Siemens