The first table below looks at the demand for Integration Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Integration Testing over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the England region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Integration Testing
Rank 270 225 200
Rank change year-on-year
-45 -25
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 267 438 526
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.642% 0.821% 0.936%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.899% 1.200% 1.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 260 269
Average daily rate £420 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £294 £280 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £582 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £351 £380 £363
% change year-on-year
-7.56% +4.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 29
Average hourly rate £37.00 £35.00 £37.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.20 £30.10 £32.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.20 £45.20 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £36.00 £35.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+2.85% -5.40%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29704 36492 38199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.42% 67.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 18148 21397 22087
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 918 1197 1399
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.55 £13.21 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Integration Testing
UK

Integration Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Integration Testing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England Integration Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Integration Testing across the England region.

England Integration Testing Daily Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Integration Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Integration Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Integration Testing across the England region.

England Integration Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Integration Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Integration Testing Hourly Rate Histogram

Integration Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London -39 120 £469 +4.16%
South East +4 56 £353 +0.71%
West Midlands -8 19 £550 +61.76%
East of England +14 18 £314 -16.33%
North West +15 16 £375 -18.91%
South West +3 15 £438 +2.94%
East Midlands -3 7 £350 -12.50%
Midlands +6 5 £475 -
Yorkshire -24 5 £200 -33.38%
Integration Testing
UK

Integration Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Integration Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Integration Testing.

1 178 (32.96%) User Acceptance Testing
2 149 (27.59%) SQL
3 144 (26.67%) Finance
4 100 (18.52%) SAP
5 92 (17.04%) Test Scripting
6 87 (16.11%) HP Quality Center
7 82 (15.19%) ISEB
8 73 (13.52%) Unit Testing
9 66 (12.22%) Java
9 66 (12.22%) Web Services
10 65 (12.04%) Migration
11 63 (11.67%) XML
11 63 (11.67%) QA
12 59 (10.93%) Oracle
13 57 (10.56%) Agile Software Development
14 55 (10.19%) Banking
14 55 (10.19%) System Testing
15 46 (8.519%) .NET
16 45 (8.333%) SQL Server
16 45 (8.333%) Project Management
17 43 (7.963%) Microsoft
18 42 (7.778%) Windows
18 42 (7.778%) ERP
18 42 (7.778%) Regression Testing
19 40 (7.407%) HP
20 38 (7.037%) Business Intelligence
20 38 (7.037%) JavaScript
21 37 (6.852%) Security Cleared
22 35 (6.481%) Data Migration
22 35 (6.481%) Test Strategy

Integration Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Integration Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Integration Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 66 (12.22%) Web Services
2 63 (11.67%) XML
3 46 (8.519%) .NET
4 27 (5.000%) SOAP
4 27 (5.000%) HTML
5 21 (3.889%) WCF
6 19 (3.519%) XSLT
7 18 (3.333%) J2EE
8 16 (2.963%) WebSphere
9 15 (2.778%) ASP.NET
9 15 (2.778%) CSS
10 13 (2.407%) soapUI
11 11 (2.037%) Spring
11 11 (2.037%) EJB
12 10 (1.852%) REST
13 9 (1.667%) Hibernate
14 8 (1.481%) XML Schema
15 7 (1.296%) Ajax
15 7 (1.296%) .NET Framework
15 7 (1.296%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 17 (3.148%) IIS
2 15 (2.778%) BizTalk Server
3 14 (2.593%) Documentum
4 9 (1.667%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.481%) Apache
5 8 (1.481%) FileNet
6 7 (1.296%) Tomcat
6 7 (1.296%) ESB
6 7 (1.296%) Confluence
7 6 (1.111%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 5 (0.926%) Exchange Server 2003
8 5 (0.926%) MS Exchange
8 5 (0.926%) Magento
9 4 (0.741%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (0.741%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (0.741%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (0.741%) MSMQ
10 3 (0.556%) Drupal
11 2 (0.370%) Lightstreamer
11 2 (0.370%) Jetty
Applications
1 34 (6.296%) MS Excel
2 20 (3.704%) MS Visio
3 13 (2.407%) MS PowerPoint
3 13 (2.407%) MS Office
4 8 (1.481%) MS Project
5 2 (0.370%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (2.963%) Oracle EBS R12
2 15 (2.778%) SAP FI
3 14 (2.593%) Oracle EBS
4 12 (2.222%) SAP MM
4 12 (2.222%) Oracle 11i
4 12 (2.222%) SAP PM
5 9 (1.667%) SAP CRM
6 8 (1.481%) SAP FI/CO
6 8 (1.481%) SAP CO
7 6 (1.111%) SAP ERP
7 6 (1.111%) SAP HR
7 6 (1.111%) SAP SD
7 6 (1.111%) Agresso
8 5 (0.926%) Temenos T24
9 4 (0.741%) SAP Oil and Gas
10 3 (0.556%) RMDS
10 3 (0.556%) SAP PLM
10 3 (0.556%) SAP IS-U
10 3 (0.556%) SAP HCM
11 2 (0.370%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 20 (3.704%) Firewall
2 16 (2.963%) HTTP
3 11 (2.037%) WAN
3 11 (2.037%) Internet
4 9 (1.667%) LAN
5 8 (1.481%) UMTS
5 8 (1.481%) GPRS
5 8 (1.481%) GSM
6 7 (1.296%) HTTPS
6 7 (1.296%) CTI
7 6 (1.111%) SIGTRAN
7 6 (1.111%) SS7
7 6 (1.111%) DNS
8 5 (0.926%) TCP/IP
8 5 (0.926%) SAN
9 4 (0.741%) DHCP
9 4 (0.741%) Wireless
10 3 (0.556%) BSS
11 2 (0.370%) Cisco PIX
11 2 (0.370%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (8.333%) SQL Server
2 18 (3.333%) Oracle BI EE
3 13 (2.407%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (1.852%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 9 (1.667%) SQL Server 2005
5 9 (1.667%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (1.481%) SAP BW
6 8 (1.481%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 7 (1.296%) Oracle 8/8i
8 6 (1.111%) Ingres
9 4 (0.741%) PostgreSQL
10 3 (0.556%) MS Access
10 3 (0.556%) Redis
11 2 (0.370%) Xcelsius
11 2 (0.370%) BusinessObjects
11 2 (0.370%) SAP BI
11 2 (0.370%) SQL Server 2000
11 2 (0.370%) Oracle Discoverer
11 2 (0.370%) Oracle Reports
11 2 (0.370%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 33 (6.111%) Selenium
2 23 (4.259%) QuickTest Pro
2 23 (4.259%) JIRA
3 21 (3.889%) Subversion
4 19 (3.519%) Team Foundation Server
5 14 (2.593%) LoadRunner
6 11 (2.037%) Eclipse
6 11 (2.037%) WebDriver
7 8 (1.481%) Visual Studio
8 7 (1.296%) NUnit
8 7 (1.296%) TeamCity
9 6 (1.111%) Git (software)
9 6 (1.111%) FitNesse
9 6 (1.111%) Ant
9 6 (1.111%) JUnit
10 5 (0.926%) ClearQuest
10 5 (0.926%) GoogleTest
10 5 (0.926%) Jenkins
11 4 (0.741%) SpecFlow
11 4 (0.741%) MSBuild
General
1 144 (26.67%) Finance
2 55 (10.19%) Banking
3 23 (4.259%) Telecoms
4 21 (3.889%) Manufacturing
4 21 (3.889%) Marketing
5 18 (3.333%) Investment Banking
6 14 (2.593%) Automotive
7 9 (1.667%) Back Office
7 9 (1.667%) Retail
8 8 (1.481%) Billing
8 8 (1.481%) Front Office
9 6 (1.111%) Publishing
10 5 (0.926%) Financial Institution
10 5 (0.926%) Wholesale Banking
11 4 (0.741%) Military
12 3 (0.556%) Games
12 3 (0.556%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.556%) Spanish Language
13 2 (0.370%) Dutch Language
13 2 (0.370%) German Language
Job Titles
1 176 (32.59%) Analyst
2 115 (21.30%) Test Analyst
3 88 (16.30%) Developer
4 62 (11.48%) Consultant
5 47 (8.704%) Tester
6 46 (8.519%) Test Manager
7 42 (7.778%) Business Analyst
8 35 (6.481%) SAP Consultant
9 28 (5.185%) Test Leader
10 24 (4.444%) Senior Analyst
11 23 (4.259%) Java Developer
12 22 (4.074%) Project Manager
12 22 (4.074%) Test Engineer
13 17 (3.148%) Senior Test Analyst
14 14 (2.593%) Siebel Analyst
15 13 (2.407%) QA Analyst
15 13 (2.407%) Systems Analyst
16 12 (2.222%) SAP Analyst
16 12 (2.222%) Software Engineer
16 12 (2.222%) Test Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 20 (3.704%) Derivative
2 13 (2.407%) Management Information System
3 12 (2.222%) Market Risk
4 11 (2.037%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (1.852%) FMCG
6 8 (1.481%) Computer Science
7 7 (1.296%) Open Source
8 5 (0.926%) Client/Server
8 5 (0.926%) Blackberry
9 4 (0.741%) Mobile Payment
9 4 (0.741%) NHS
9 4 (0.741%) Equity Derivative
9 4 (0.741%) Equities
9 4 (0.741%) Fixed Income
9 4 (0.741%) Clustering
10 3 (0.556%) Mathematics
10 3 (0.556%) Web 2.0
10 3 (0.556%) RIA
10 3 (0.556%) Reference Data
10 3 (0.556%) Data Extraction
Operating Systems
1 42 (7.778%) Windows
2 31 (5.741%) UNIX
3 27 (5.000%) Linux
4 12 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (2.037%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (2.037%) Windows 7
6 6 (1.111%) Windows XP
7 5 (0.926%) Windows Vista
8 4 (0.741%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.370%) Android
9 2 (0.370%) Embedded Linux
10 1 (0.185%) SUSE
10 1 (0.185%) Windows 2000
10 1 (0.185%) Solaris
10 1 (0.185%) VMS
10 1 (0.185%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.185%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (32.96%) User Acceptance Testing
2 92 (17.04%) Test Scripting
3 73 (13.52%) Unit Testing
4 65 (12.04%) Migration
5 57 (10.56%) Agile Software Development
6 55 (10.19%) System Testing
7 45 (8.333%) Project Management
8 42 (7.778%) ERP
8 42 (7.778%) Regression Testing
9 38 (7.037%) Business Intelligence
10 35 (6.481%) Data Migration
10 35 (6.481%) Test Strategy
11 34 (6.296%) Scrum
12 31 (5.741%) Software Testing
13 30 (5.556%) UML
13 30 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
14 29 (5.370%) Automated Testing
15 26 (4.815%) CRM
15 26 (4.815%) Use Case
16 25 (4.630%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 149 (27.59%) SQL
2 66 (12.22%) Java
3 38 (7.037%) JavaScript
4 34 (6.296%) C#
5 21 (3.889%) C++
6 18 (3.333%) C
7 14 (2.593%) Python
8 8 (1.481%) T-SQL
9 7 (1.296%) ABAP
9 7 (1.296%) PHP
9 7 (1.296%) VBA
9 7 (1.296%) PowerShell
10 6 (1.111%) Shell Script
10 6 (1.111%) PL/SQL
11 5 (0.926%) Perl
11 5 (0.926%) ActionScript
11 5 (0.926%) ActionScript 3.0
12 4 (0.741%) VBScript
12 4 (0.741%) VB
13 3 (0.556%) VB6
Qualifications
1 82 (15.19%) ISEB
2 37 (6.852%) Security Cleared
3 30 (5.556%) Degree
4 26 (4.815%) SC Cleared
5 23 (4.259%) ISTQB
6 12 (2.222%) ACCA
7 9 (1.667%) DV Cleared
8 6 (1.111%) Postgraduate
9 4 (0.741%) MBA
10 3 (0.556%) ISEB Practitioner
10 3 (0.556%) HND
11 2 (0.370%) BC Cleared
11 2 (0.370%) CCA
11 2 (0.370%) Microsoft Certification
12 1 (0.185%) MCSD
12 1 (0.185%) HNC
12 1 (0.185%) MCSE
12 1 (0.185%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.185%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.185%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (11.67%) QA
2 7 (1.296%) Basel III
3 5 (0.926%) PCI DSS
4 3 (0.556%) ISO 9000
4 3 (0.556%) HL7
5 2 (0.370%) DICOM
5 2 (0.370%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (0.370%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.370%) SLA
6 1 (0.185%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.185%) TickIT
6 1 (0.185%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.185%) FATCA
6 1 (0.185%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (2.778%) Active Directory
2 12 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.926%) VMware ESX
3 5 (0.926%) VMware Workstation
4 2 (0.370%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.370%) Xen
5 1 (0.185%) XenApp
5 1 (0.185%) XenServer
5 1 (0.185%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (16.11%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.185%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 100 (18.52%) SAP
2 59 (10.93%) Oracle
3 43 (7.963%) Microsoft
4 40 (7.407%) HP
5 24 (4.444%) Siebel
6 19 (3.519%) VMware
7 18 (3.333%) IBM
8 13 (2.407%) Informatica
9 10 (1.852%) Capita
10 9 (1.667%) Siemens
11 7 (1.296%) Guidewire
12 5 (0.926%) Sybase
12 5 (0.926%) JDA
12 5 (0.926%) Charles River
13 4 (0.741%) RedPrairie
13 4 (0.741%) CA
13 4 (0.741%) Red Hat
13 4 (0.741%) JD Edwards
13 4 (0.741%) Reuters
13 4 (0.741%) CheckPoint
City, London
BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT, SEPA. You will have advanced knowledge of using HPQC, XML & SQL and experience of integration testing of payment flows, including testing the flows of the...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
Contract Test Analyst - London - £300p/d - £330p/d - 6 Months Initially - Payments - BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT, SEPA... BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT, SEPA). *Experience with integration testing of payments flows, not...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Contract Test Analyst - London - £300p/d - £330p/d - 6 Months Initially - Payments - BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT, SEPA... BACS, CHAPS, SWIFT, SEPA). *Experience with integration testing of payments flows, not...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
London
Key skills: - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) - Regression testing - Functional testing - System integration testing - Performance, load or security testing experience - UAT - ISEB (...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £150 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The ideal candidate will have experience using a variety of automated testing tools within a cloud environment... Key Skills: List of key skills for the role; Test analyst,...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250 - 350 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Key skills: - .Net/ ASP.Net (4.5) - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) - Regression testing - Functional testing - System integration testing - Performance, load or...
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cambridgeshire, South East
Providing knowledge and insight into both emerging technologies and new opportunities around existing technologies Scope of the Software Developer / .Net Developer role: - Developing and supporting enterprise scale applications...
NBS Recruitment
Rate: £0 - £400 per day
Posted: 24 May 2013
Oxfordshire, South East
Own all testing activities from initiation through to testing sign off*Develop and own the test approach and project plan*Test scripts / plans*Support the identification of test...
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013
London
Familiarity with Automation Testing and QA tools and Techniques... Gemini, Trac, JIRA, Mantis) Experience with unit, functionality, usability, accessibility, load and integration testing, prototyping and UAT / user acceptance...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Crawley, West Sussex
My leading IT consultancy client are currently recruiting for three JAVA / DOJO (J2EE) Developers for 2 month initial contracts, ASAP start, based in Crawley, West Sussex. Responsibilities Include:...
Venturi
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
The ideal candidate must have the following key skills: - .Net/ ASP.Net (4.5) - Winforms - MVC - C# - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) -...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Devon, South West
Our exclusive client in Devon has a requirement for a scripting software engineer to create and run continuous test scripts in Python, Bash or Perl... The ideal candidate...
Computer Futures
Posted: 24 May 2013
Devon, South West
Our client inDevonhas a requirement for a scripting software engineer to create and run continuous test scripts in Python, Bash or Perl... The ideal candidate will have experience...
Computer Futures
Posted: 21 May 2013
Southampton, Hampshire
Essential Technical Skills Current performance / volume / load testing experience with HP Loadrunner V11, including script customisation Current security / penetration testing experience using HP Webinspect V9.3 Current regression...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
The Horizon Developer will have: Extensively strong Horizon development exposure Investment Banking/Financial Services experience (ideally worked with Equity Derivatives/Delta 1 Products) and the following will be...
Real Staffing
Rate: £500 - £625 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Liverpool, Merseyside
You will be responsible to the Test Programme Office for the management of all technical infrastructure testing from the initial data centre build out and installation of application...
LA International
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
I am woring with an Intetnational IT Consultancy who are looking for a Tivoli Identify Manager. The successful canfdidate will participate in creating High Level Design and Low...
Stott & May
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013