System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Dorset

System Integration Testing (SIT)
South West > Dorset

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Dorset 0.78% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.10% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £269 - -
25th Percentile £283 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £305 - -
75th Percentile £328 - -
90th Percentile £341 - -
South West median daily rate £475 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -9.52% +5.00% +14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Dorset

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 Dorset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 182 91 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Dorset 71.09% 87.50% 86.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 52 77
10th Percentile £364 £186 £175
25th Percentile £407 £270 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £488 £488
Median % change year-on-year +10.26% - -9.30%
75th Percentile £669 £550 £630
90th Percentile £788 £574 £700
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 15 7
10th Percentile £17.57 £14.80 £14.12
25th Percentile £18.64 £15.25 £14.41
Median hourly rate £39.25 £15.50 £15.62
Median % change year-on-year +153.23% -0.77% -72.35%
75th Percentile £70.81 £15.75 £20.40
90th Percentile £74.68 £17.21 £40.11
South West median hourly rate £62.00 £25.15 £68.75
% change year-on-year +146.52% -63.42% +7.18%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Dorset

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

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Dorset

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Dorset

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

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

System Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Dorset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Dorset citing System Integration Testing

System Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Dorset

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 Dorset region over the 6 months to 15 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
Bournemouth - 1 £260 - 2
Poole - 1 £350 - 2
System Integration Testing
South West

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Dorset 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Appium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA