System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

System Integration Testing (SIT)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 54 54
Rank change year-on-year -3 0 0
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 11 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.60% 0.87% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.84% 0.90% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
10th Percentile £364 £463 -
25th Percentile £387 £482 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £514 -
Median % change year-on-year -21.94% - -
75th Percentile £440 £533 -
90th Percentile £541 £545 -
North West median daily rate £440 £478 £488
% change year-on-year -7.95% -1.95% -2.50%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheshire

System 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 444 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 86.92% 96.94% 83.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 405 311 274
10th Percentile £323 £316 £300
25th Percentile £394 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £447 £489
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -8.59% +1.37%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £652 £640 £638
North West median daily rate £467 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 25 30
10th Percentile £13.47 £17.20 £13.70
25th Percentile £18.50 £25.15 £16.61
Median hourly rate £35.00 £47.50 £26.66
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +78.17% -12.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.00 £42.31
90th Percentile - - £44.13
North West median hourly rate £55.00 £31.88 £24.10
% change year-on-year +72.52% +32.28% -33.06%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Cheshire

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing System Integration Testing

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing in Cheshire over the 6 months to 15 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in Cheshire

System Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Knutsford -12 5 £394 -23.39%
Nantwich - 2 - -
Crewe - 1 - -
Warrington - 1 £625 -
System Integration Testing
North West

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 5 (45.45%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (9.09%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Boomi
1 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
1 1 (9.09%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 6 (54.55%) JIRA
2 5 (45.45%) Postman
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (36.36%) Banking
3 4 (36.36%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Manufacturing
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Business Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Payments Analyst
2 5 (45.45%) Payments Business Analyst
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Systems Integration Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Systems Manager
3 4 (36.36%) Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Banking Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) ERP Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (45.45%) JSON
1 5 (45.45%) REST
1 5 (45.45%) SOAP
1 5 (45.45%) Swagger
1 5 (45.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Digital Wallet
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (54.55%) User Acceptance Testing
1 6 (54.55%) Validation
2 5 (45.45%) API Design
2 5 (45.45%) API Integration
2 5 (45.45%) Integration Patterns
2 5 (45.45%) Requirements Gathering
2 5 (45.45%) Workshop Facilitation
3 4 (36.36%) Agile
3 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
3 4 (36.36%) ERP
3 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Functional Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Migration
6 1 (9.09%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (9.09%) Decision-Making
6 1 (9.09%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (9.09%) Impact Assessments
6 1 (9.09%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
3 1 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) PCI DSS
1 5 (45.45%) PSD2
2 3 (27.27%) ISO 8583
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) DocuSign
1 1 (9.09%) MuleSoft
1 1 (9.09%) OpenText
1 1 (9.09%) SAP