Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Integration Testing
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 93 95 103
Rank change year-on-year +2 +8 +17
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 8 16 19
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.61% 1.00% 1.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 1.12% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 15
10th Percentile £420 £528 £340
25th Percentile £450 £619 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £673 £610
Median % change year-on-year -28.07% +10.37% -2.40%
75th Percentile £569 £715 £689
90th Percentile £696 £719 £719
South East median daily rate £481 £641 £560
% change year-on-year -25.07% +14.51% -4.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,179 1,427 1,609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 89.39% 88.80% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 766 972
10th Percentile £325 £325 £240
25th Percentile £420 £423 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £501
Median % change year-on-year -6.98% +7.34% +0.15%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £511 £520
% change year-on-year -2.19% -1.70% +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 69
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £18.95
25th Percentile £16.72 £41.88 £45.21
Median hourly rate £27.50 £58.49 £61.79
Median % change year-on-year -52.98% -5.34% +23.58%
75th Percentile £58.00 £63.42 £72.33
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.19 £77.55
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.17 £52.50
% change year-on-year -64.40% +10.80% +40.00%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in Berkshire over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in Berkshire

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Wokingham - 5 £460 -
Reading +10 3 £600 -10.88% 4
Integration Testing
South East

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle Service Bus
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (12.50%) SAP EWM
Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
2 4 (50.00%) Entra ID
3 2 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (12.50%) Azure API Management
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (12.50%) Azure Storage
4 1 (12.50%) OCI
4 1 (12.50%) PaaS
4 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Postman
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 4 (50.00%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Test Strategist
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Azure Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) HR Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Integration Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Oracle HRMS Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) SAP Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) SAP EWM Consultant
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Core
2 1 (12.50%) .NET Framework
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth
2 1 (12.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (12.50%) OpenAPI
2 1 (12.50%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) RESTful
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
2 1 (12.50%) WSDL
2 1 (12.50%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (12.50%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Agile
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (62.50%) Validation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 4 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (50.00%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Resilience Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Test Management
2 4 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (25.00%) Data Transformation
3 2 (25.00%) SOA
3 2 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) PL/SQL
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 4 (50.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
1 1 (12.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) ServiceNow
1 4 (50.00%) Workday
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) SAP