Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Integration Testing
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Bedfordshire requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.97% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.75% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 - -
East of England median daily rate £544 £550 £313
% change year-on-year -1.14% +76.00% -43.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £75.00 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile £86.20 - -
East of England median hourly rate £77.00 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Bedfordshire

Integration 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 Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 218 201 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 71.71% 90.54% 81.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 92 94 87
10th Percentile £220 £185 £325
25th Percentile £405 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £603 £600 £570
90th Percentile £650 £650 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 30 18
10th Percentile £23.10 £37.50 £37.88
25th Percentile £61.00 £61.19 £51.18
Median hourly rate £70.00 £82.25 £58.45
Median % change year-on-year -14.89% +40.72% +6.27%
75th Percentile £75.00 £91.50 £67.50
90th Percentile £80.60 £91.60 £69.73
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +92.43%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Integration Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire.

Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

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 Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 2026. 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
Luton - 6 £750 - 2
Integration Testing
East of England

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP GRC
1 1 (16.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (33.33%) Rational Rhapsody
2 2 (33.33%) VectorCAST
2 2 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Principal Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) .NET Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Ada Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Ada Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (16.67%) UAT Lead
3 1 (16.67%) UAT Test Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) WinForms
1 2 (33.33%) WPF
2 1 (16.67%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) VxWorks
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) OO
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 3 (50.00%) Validation
2 3 (50.00%) Verification and Validation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Kanban
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) OOD
3 2 (33.33%) Requirements Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) UML
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Ada
1 2 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) DO-178B
2 1 (16.67%) GRC
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Firmware
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP