System Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

System Testing
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring System Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System Testing over the 6 months leading up to 15 November 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Nov 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 116 157
Rank change year-on-year +16 +41 +15
Contract jobs citing System Testing 14 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.74% 0.36% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.42% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 13
10th Percentile £255 £296 £362
25th Percentile £278 £313 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £530 £420
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% +26.19% -1.87%
75th Percentile £489 £568 £434
90th Percentile £538 £588 £513
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +25.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

System Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,572 1,667 3,070
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.13% 84.71% 87.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 988 1,128 2,161
10th Percentile £244 £263 £281
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +8.11%
75th Percentile £624 £600 £583
90th Percentile £716 £713 £655
England median daily rate £525 £545 £550
% change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 53 48
10th Percentile £14.70 £16.02 £12.00
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.75 £14.36
Median hourly rate £26.13 £27.50 £17.71
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +55.28% +15.53%
75th Percentile £34.47 £50.00 £20.24
90th Percentile £51.00 £67.50 £32.58
England median hourly rate £37.25 £44.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.29% +27.14% +67.36%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing System Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 15 November 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for System Testing in the West Midlands

System Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 15 November 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
Shropshire - 5 £473 - 1
Birmingham +8 4 £525 +61.54%
Wednesbury - 3 £260 -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
System Testing
England

System Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (7.14%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (28.57%) Firewall
1 4 (28.57%) LAN
1 4 (28.57%) Remote Desktop
1 4 (28.57%) SAN
1 4 (28.57%) Softphone
1 4 (28.57%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (21.43%) Finance
4 2 (14.29%) Banking
4 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Developer
2 3 (21.43%) SQL Developer
2 3 (21.43%) Support Engineer
2 3 (21.43%) Test Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Functional Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) NetSuite Consultant
4 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow Architect
4 1 (7.14%) Software Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Test Data Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Team-Oriented Environment
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 2 (14.29%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Windows
1 4 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 3 (21.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (42.86%) Agile
2 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
2 4 (28.57%) Change Control
2 4 (28.57%) Collaborative Working
2 4 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 3 (21.43%) BCP
3 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity Planning
3 3 (21.43%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (21.43%) ERP
3 3 (21.43%) High Availability
3 3 (21.43%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (14.29%) Change Management
4 2 (14.29%) ETL
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
1 3 (21.43%) PL/SQL
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (14.29%) CBAP
2 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) Civica
3 1 (7.14%) Dell
3 1 (7.14%) ServiceNow