Integration Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Integration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Integration Testing over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 277 276 296
Rank change year-on-year -1 +20 -36
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 108 184 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.53% 0.78% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.87% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 121 151
10th Percentile £310 £285 £325
25th Percentile £472 £416 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% +9.47% +15.85%
75th Percentile £736 £603 £539
90th Percentile £769 £700 £610
UK median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 18 16
10th Percentile - £41.30 £44.84
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.13 £49.06
Median hourly rate £57.50 £72.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.69% +20.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £63.13 £75.90 £62.75
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Integration 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 advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,341 21,054 27,253
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.49% 89.57% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,323 14,598 19,040
10th Percentile £250 £256 £232
25th Percentile £375 £400 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,291 1,337
10th Percentile £12.31 £11.00 £12.23
25th Percentile £15.17 £15.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £46.12
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +44.00% +2.04%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Integration Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the UK excluding London

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Integration Testing within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 8 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
South East +12 50 £675 +12.22% 15
Midlands +11 16 £525 -11.46% 14
Scotland +51 15 £607 +12.88% 4
West Midlands +11 13 £544 +2.11% 8
North of England +2 12 £488 -11.36% 18
North West +20 9 £488 +68.10% 9
East of England -1 9 £313 -37.50% 17
South West -18 4 £600 +33.33% 8
Yorkshire +16 3 £470 -9.18% 8
East Midlands +14 3 £500 -16.67% 6
Northern Ireland +8 2 - -
Integration Testing
UK

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (10.19%) Apache
1 11 (10.19%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (4.63%) Simulink
1 5 (4.63%) Stateflow
1 5 (4.63%) TargetLink
2 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 17 (15.74%) SAP EWM
2 13 (12.04%) SAP QM
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (2.78%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
5 2 (1.85%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.93%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.93%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.93%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.93%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.93%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.44%) Azure
2 11 (10.19%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.48%) AWS
4 3 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (2.78%) OCI
4 3 (2.78%) SaaS
4 3 (2.78%) Serverless
5 2 (1.85%) Azure Functions
5 2 (1.85%) Boomi
5 2 (1.85%) Power Platform
6 1 (0.93%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.93%) Azure App Service
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Cognitive Search
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.93%) Figma
6 1 (0.93%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.19%) BGP
1 11 (10.19%) Ethernet VPN
1 11 (10.19%) MPLS
1 11 (10.19%) Radio Access Network
1 11 (10.19%) VPN
2 1 (0.93%) 4G
2 1 (0.93%) 5G
2 1 (0.93%) Firewall
2 1 (0.93%) FTP
2 1 (0.93%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.19%) MongoDB
1 11 (10.19%) NoSQL
1 11 (10.19%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.70%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.93%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.93%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
4 1 (0.93%) Power BI
4 1 (0.93%) Qlik Sense
4 1 (0.93%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 22 (20.37%) JIRA
2 13 (12.04%) GitLab
3 11 (10.19%) Robot Framework
3 11 (10.19%) TestRail
4 10 (9.26%) Git
5 6 (5.56%) Bitbucket
6 5 (4.63%) Jenkins
6 5 (4.63%) Selenium
6 5 (4.63%) Subversion
7 3 (2.78%) Visual Studio
8 2 (1.85%) Cucumber
8 2 (1.85%) Cypress.io
8 2 (1.85%) Maven
8 2 (1.85%) NUnit
9 1 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
9 1 (0.93%) Katalon Studio
9 1 (0.93%) Postman
9 1 (0.93%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.93%) TestNG
9 1 (0.93%) Zephyr
General
1 21 (19.44%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 13 (12.04%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (10.19%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.63%) Automotive
6 3 (2.78%) Electronics
6 3 (2.78%) Military
7 2 (1.85%) Banking
7 2 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.85%) Retail
7 2 (1.85%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.93%) Aerospace
8 1 (0.93%) Legal
8 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.93%) Marketing
8 1 (0.93%) Retail Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (21.30%) Consultant
2 18 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 17 (15.74%) SAP Consultant
4 13 (12.04%) Analyst
4 13 (12.04%) Developer
4 13 (12.04%) SAP QM Consultant
4 13 (12.04%) Test Manager
5 10 (9.26%) Network Engineer
6 8 (7.41%) Test Analyst
7 7 (6.48%) Lead
7 7 (6.48%) Principal Engineer
8 6 (5.56%) Senior
8 6 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Control Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) Principal Systems Engineer
9 5 (4.63%) SAP EWM Consultant
10 4 (3.70%) .NET Developer
10 4 (3.70%) Architect
10 4 (3.70%) Test Leader
10 4 (3.70%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (12.96%) SOAP
2 13 (12.04%) REST
3 11 (10.19%) NETCONF
3 11 (10.19%) RESTCONF
3 11 (10.19%) YANG
4 9 (8.33%) .NET
5 8 (7.41%) CSS
6 7 (6.48%) HTML
7 6 (5.56%) JSON
8 5 (4.63%) Node.js
9 4 (3.70%) AngularJS
9 4 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
9 4 (3.70%) React
10 3 (2.78%) .NET Core
10 3 (2.78%) .NET Framework
10 3 (2.78%) Entity Framework
10 3 (2.78%) Jest
10 3 (2.78%) Web Services
10 3 (2.78%) XML
11 2 (1.85%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.41%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.63%) Algorithms
3 3 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 2 (1.85%) Equities
4 2 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.85%) Operational Technology
4 2 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Cloud Native
5 1 (0.93%) CMDB
5 1 (0.93%) Data Centre
5 1 (0.93%) PKI
5 1 (0.93%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.78%) Windows
2 2 (1.85%) Linux
3 1 (0.93%) AIX
3 1 (0.93%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (48.15%) User Acceptance Testing
2 39 (36.11%) Agile
3 33 (30.56%) Test Automation
4 24 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 24 (22.22%) System Integration Testing
5 23 (21.30%) Unit Testing
6 20 (18.52%) DevOps
6 20 (18.52%) Workshop Facilitation
7 18 (16.67%) Performance Testing
8 17 (15.74%) CI/CD
8 17 (15.74%) Scrum
8 17 (15.74%) Security Testing
9 16 (14.81%) Regression Testing
9 16 (14.81%) Software Testing
10 14 (12.96%) Functional Testing
10 14 (12.96%) Workflow
11 13 (12.04%) Containerisation
11 13 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
11 13 (12.04%) Test Scripting
12 12 (11.11%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 15 (13.89%) SQL
2 13 (12.04%) JavaScript
2 13 (12.04%) Python
3 8 (7.41%) C#
4 6 (5.56%) C
5 5 (4.63%) Java
5 5 (4.63%) MATLAB
6 3 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 2 (1.85%) PHP
8 1 (0.93%) ABAP
8 1 (0.93%) C++
8 1 (0.93%) X++
Qualifications
1 31 (28.70%) Security Cleared
2 24 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (14.81%) Degree
4 8 (7.41%) DV Cleared
4 8 (7.41%) ISTQB
5 6 (5.56%) ISEB
5 6 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.85%) ISEB Practitioner
7 1 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.93%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (8.33%) QA
2 5 (4.63%) AUTOSAR
2 5 (4.63%) ISO 26262
2 5 (4.63%) MISRA
2 5 (4.63%) MISRA C
3 3 (2.78%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.78%) Disclosure Scotland
4 2 (1.85%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.85%) Def Stans
4 2 (1.85%) NIST
4 2 (1.85%) PMO
5 1 (0.93%) GDPR
5 1 (0.93%) GxP
5 1 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 1 (0.93%) NCSC
5 1 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (12.96%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.78%) Terraform
2 2 (1.85%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.93%) Check_MK
Vendors
1 39 (36.11%) SAP
2 12 (11.11%) Oracle
3 7 (6.48%) Microsoft
4 4 (3.70%) Blue Prism
5 3 (2.78%) Siemens
6 1 (0.93%) Adobe
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco
6 1 (0.93%) Fortinet
6 1 (0.93%) Jitterbit
6 1 (0.93%) Juniper
6 1 (0.93%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.93%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.93%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.93%) SnapLogic
6 1 (0.93%) Software AG
6 1 (0.93%) Splunk
6 1 (0.93%) Talend
6 1 (0.93%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.93%) Workday