System Integration Testing Contracts

System Integration Testing (SIT)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for System Integration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited System Integration Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 427 435 532
Rank change year-on-year +8 +97 -37
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 168 294 337
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.39% 0.49% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.55% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 211 223
10th Percentile £325 £375 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £583
90th Percentile £712 £788 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £508 £495
% change year-on-year -5.17% +2.53% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £48.97 £38.53
25th Percentile - £51.92 £38.94
Median hourly rate - £57.85 £40.75
Median % change year-on-year - +41.95% -0.61%
75th Percentile - £62.77 £42.44
90th Percentile - £65.12 £42.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £57.85 £40.75
% change year-on-year - +41.95% -7.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

System 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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing System Integration Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Integration Testing.

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Integration Testing.

Hourly rate trend for System Integration Testing in the UK

System Integration Testing
Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Integration Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 28 April 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 +22 145 £530 -3.64% 29
London +56 83 £561 -5.75% 11
UK excluding London +21 62 £481 -5.17% 16
Work from Home +67 60 £555 +11.00% 15
South East +11 23 £500 +15.94% 1
Midlands +31 14 £380 -27.62% 2
East Midlands - 9 £368 -
North of England -6 8 £488 -9.72% 4
South West +16 6 £525 +2.44% 2
Scotland +32 5 £513 +2.50% 1
West Midlands +26 5 £438 -16.67% 2
East of England +8 4 £583 -16.75% 5
North West +6 4 £481 -3.75% 3
Yorkshire +13 3 £550 +15.79% 1
Northern Ireland - 2 £500 - 1
Wales +13 1 £160 -69.52%
North East +10 1 - -

System Integration 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 4 (2.38%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.19%) Confluence
3 1 (0.60%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (2.98%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 16 (9.52%) Oracle Applications
2 9 (5.36%) Loan IQ
3 6 (3.57%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle Cash Management
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle AGIS
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle Assets
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle Financials
5 3 (1.79%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (1.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (1.19%) SAP Retail
6 2 (1.19%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.60%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.60%) Oracle SCM
7 1 (0.60%) SAP MM
7 1 (0.60%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 21 (12.50%) OCI
2 14 (8.33%) Azure
3 10 (5.95%) SaaS
4 9 (5.36%) AWS
4 9 (5.36%) Oracle CX
4 9 (5.36%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 7 (4.17%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.98%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.19%) PaaS
8 2 (1.19%) Taleo
9 1 (0.60%) Boomi
9 1 (0.60%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (10.12%) Oracle Reports
2 7 (4.17%) Power BI
3 5 (2.98%) BusinessObjects
3 5 (2.98%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (2.98%) MS Access
3 5 (2.98%) SQL Server
4 4 (2.38%) Tableau
5 2 (1.19%) DB2
5 2 (1.19%) IDMS
6 1 (0.60%) Qlik Sense
6 1 (0.60%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 24 (14.29%) JIRA
2 12 (7.14%) Selenium
2 12 (7.14%) TestRail
3 11 (6.55%) LoadRunner
4 10 (5.95%) JMeter
5 7 (4.17%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.79%) FitNesse
6 3 (1.79%) Git
6 3 (1.79%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.79%) JUnit
6 3 (1.79%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.79%) TestNG
7 2 (1.19%) HP UFT
7 2 (1.19%) Postman
7 2 (1.19%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.60%) GitLab
8 1 (0.60%) Maven
8 1 (0.60%) REST Assured
8 1 (0.60%) WebDriver
8 1 (0.60%) Zephyr
General
1 45 (26.79%) Social Skills
2 44 (26.19%) Finance
3 19 (11.31%) Banking
4 16 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (5.95%) Retail
6 6 (3.57%) Billing
6 6 (3.57%) Investment Banking
6 6 (3.57%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.98%) Law
7 5 (2.98%) Legal
8 4 (2.38%) Public Sector
8 4 (2.38%) Social Housing
9 3 (1.79%) Back Office
9 3 (1.79%) Front Office
9 3 (1.79%) General Ledger
9 3 (1.79%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.19%) Marketing
10 2 (1.19%) Military
10 2 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (21.43%) Lead
2 31 (18.45%) Analyst
3 18 (10.71%) Test Analyst
4 17 (10.12%) Tester
5 16 (9.52%) Test Leader
6 15 (8.93%) Test Manager
7 13 (7.74%) Consultant
7 13 (7.74%) Test Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Senior
9 7 (4.17%) Data Analyst
9 7 (4.17%) Developer
10 6 (3.57%) Project Manager
11 5 (2.98%) Automation Tester
11 5 (2.98%) Business Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Cloud Consultant
11 5 (2.98%) Oracle Consultant
11 5 (2.98%) Oracle Payroll Specialist
11 5 (2.98%) Oracle Specialist
11 5 (2.98%) Project Analyst
11 5 (2.98%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 7 (4.17%) XML
2 5 (2.98%) Middleware
2 5 (2.98%) Web Services
2 5 (2.98%) XSLT
3 4 (2.38%) .NET
4 3 (1.79%) .NET Core
4 3 (1.79%) React
4 3 (1.79%) REST
5 2 (1.19%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.19%) ADO
5 2 (1.19%) CSS
5 2 (1.19%) Dojo
5 2 (1.19%) Entity Framework
5 2 (1.19%) FpML
5 2 (1.19%) HTML
5 2 (1.19%) Playwright
5 2 (1.19%) Spring
5 2 (1.19%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.60%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (3.57%) NHS
2 5 (2.98%) Legacy Systems
3 4 (2.38%) e-Health
3 4 (2.38%) Management Information System
4 3 (1.79%) PACS
4 3 (1.79%) Reinsurance
5 2 (1.19%) CCTV
5 2 (1.19%) Data Structures
5 2 (1.19%) Equities
5 2 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.19%) Life Science
5 2 (1.19%) Mainframe
5 2 (1.19%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.19%) Product Ownership
5 2 (1.19%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
5 2 (1.19%) VSAM
6 1 (0.60%) EPoS
6 1 (0.60%) FMCG
6 1 (0.60%) Market Risk
Operating Systems
1 8 (4.76%) Unix
2 4 (2.38%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (72.02%) User Acceptance Testing
2 55 (32.74%) Test Strategy
3 51 (30.36%) Integration Testing
4 50 (29.76%) Test Automation
5 46 (27.38%) Migration
6 30 (17.86%) Scenario Testing
7 27 (16.07%) Agile
8 25 (14.88%) End-to-End Testing
9 24 (14.29%) Data Migration
9 24 (14.29%) Test Scripting
10 23 (13.69%) Software Testing
11 21 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (11.90%) Data Conversion
13 19 (11.31%) Validation
14 18 (10.71%) Functional Testing
15 17 (10.12%) Project Management
15 17 (10.12%) Regression Testing
16 16 (9.52%) Defect Management
16 16 (9.52%) ERP
16 16 (9.52%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 19 (11.31%) SQL
2 12 (7.14%) Python
3 6 (3.57%) JavaScript
3 6 (3.57%) TypeScript
4 5 (2.98%) XPath
5 4 (2.38%) C#
5 4 (2.38%) Java
6 2 (1.19%) COBOL
6 2 (1.19%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.60%) ABAP
7 1 (0.60%) Assembly Language
7 1 (0.60%) JCL
7 1 (0.60%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 30 (17.86%) Degree
2 14 (8.33%) Master's Degree
3 12 (7.14%) ISTQB
4 9 (5.36%) ISEB
5 8 (4.76%) Security Cleared
6 7 (4.17%) SC Cleared
7 5 (2.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.60%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.60%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.93%) QA
2 13 (7.74%) Data Quality
3 5 (2.98%) PMO
4 4 (2.38%) EMIR
4 4 (2.38%) GxP
4 4 (2.38%) HL7
4 4 (2.38%) MiFID
5 3 (1.79%) ISO 9001
5 3 (1.79%) SLA
6 2 (1.19%) Def Stans
6 2 (1.19%) GDPR
7 1 (0.60%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (0.60%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.79%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.19%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.60%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 41 (24.40%) Oracle
2 18 (10.71%) SAP
3 10 (5.95%) Microsoft
4 8 (4.76%) Workday
5 5 (2.98%) Alteryx
5 5 (2.98%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.79%) HP
6 3 (1.79%) Murex
7 2 (1.19%) Cadence
7 2 (1.19%) IBM
7 2 (1.19%) Panasonic
8 1 (0.60%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.60%) Talend