Integration Testing Contracts in England

Integration Testing
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Integration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Integration Testing over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 262 314 327
Rank change year-on-year +52 +13 -13
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 229 223 348
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.94% 0.61% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 0.71% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 148 218
10th Percentile £325 £306 £323
25th Percentile £397 £418 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £545 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.26% +3.81% +5.00%
75th Percentile £606 £653 £648
90th Percentile £695 £765 £718
UK median daily rate £475 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -11.79% +2.57% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 21
10th Percentile £52.50 £50.08 £52.13
25th Percentile £55.31 £56.25 £52.97
Median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +20.83%
75th Percentile £63.75 £58.75 £75.00
90th Percentile £69.38 £62.25 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £72.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% -20.69% +20.83%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,200 31,464 43,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.22% 86.38% 90.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,506 20,624 30,476
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 952 2,249 1,526
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.95 £16.20
Median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.40
Median % change year-on-year -21.23% +0.29% +45.58%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in England

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in England

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in England

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in England

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Integration Testing in England over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Integration Testing in England

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 19 May 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
London +51 130 £500 -4.11% 99
South East +26 37 £475 -29.63% 84
North of England +27 22 £450 -7.69% 27
South West +51 15 £513 -14.58% 22
North West +20 15 £405 -16.92% 20
Midlands +16 12 £463 -9.76% 26
East of England +18 7 £550 +76.00% 31
East Midlands +16 7 £463 -7.50% 8
Yorkshire +16 6 £563 +19.68% 4
West Midlands -1 5 £461 -12.14% 18
North East - 1 £363 - 3
Integration Testing
UK

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 22 (9.61%) Confluence
2 10 (4.37%) SAS
3 5 (2.18%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.75%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 3 (1.31%) Apache
6 2 (0.87%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.87%) MQSeries
7 1 (0.44%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.44%) Apache Airflow
7 1 (0.44%) Documentum
7 1 (0.44%) Mule
7 1 (0.44%) Oracle Service Bus
7 1 (0.44%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 6 (2.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 9 (3.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
2 4 (1.75%) Payment Gateway
3 3 (1.31%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.31%) SAP LE
3 3 (1.31%) SAP WM
4 2 (0.87%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.87%) Misys Midas
4 2 (0.87%) Murex MxG2000
4 2 (0.87%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.87%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.44%) BambooHR
5 1 (0.44%) Infor LN
5 1 (0.44%) SAP CRM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP IBP
5 1 (0.44%) SAP MDG
5 1 (0.44%) SAP PP
5 1 (0.44%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP VC
5 1 (0.44%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 33 (14.41%) Azure
2 32 (13.97%) AWS
3 22 (9.61%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (3.93%) Cloud Computing
4 9 (3.93%) Slack
5 8 (3.49%) SaaS
6 7 (3.06%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.62%) GitHub
7 6 (2.62%) Power Automate
8 5 (2.18%) PowerApps
9 4 (1.75%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.75%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (1.75%) OCI
9 4 (1.75%) Serverless
10 3 (1.31%) Amazon S3
10 3 (1.31%) Azure Stack
10 3 (1.31%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.87%) Apigee
11 2 (0.87%) Datadog
11 2 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.06%) HTTP
2 4 (1.75%) Software-Defined Radio
3 3 (1.31%) LAN
3 3 (1.31%) SNMP
4 2 (0.87%) Firewall
4 2 (0.87%) Unified Communications
4 2 (0.87%) WAN
5 1 (0.44%) BGP
5 1 (0.44%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (0.44%) MPLS
5 1 (0.44%) Multicast
5 1 (0.44%) SSL
5 1 (0.44%) VPN
5 1 (0.44%) WebEx
5 1 (0.44%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (8.73%) MongoDB
2 11 (4.80%) Oracle Database
2 11 (4.80%) PostgreSQL
3 10 (4.37%) MySQL
4 9 (3.93%) Apache Cassandra
5 8 (3.49%) Oracle Reports
6 6 (2.62%) SQL Server
7 5 (2.18%) NoSQL
8 4 (1.75%) Delta Lake
8 4 (1.75%) MS Access
8 4 (1.75%) Power BI
8 4 (1.75%) RDBMS
8 4 (1.75%) Relational Database
9 3 (1.31%) Amazon Athena
9 3 (1.31%) Apache Iceberg
9 3 (1.31%) BigQuery
9 3 (1.31%) BusinessObjects
9 3 (1.31%) Star Schema
10 2 (0.87%) ObjectStore
10 2 (0.87%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 38 (16.59%) JIRA
2 26 (11.35%) Git
3 24 (10.48%) Selenium
4 16 (6.99%) Jenkins
5 13 (5.68%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.24%) JMeter
7 11 (4.80%) Postman
8 10 (4.37%) JUnit
9 9 (3.93%) GitLab
9 9 (3.93%) Jasmine
10 7 (3.06%) Cypress.io
10 7 (3.06%) SpecFlow
11 6 (2.62%) Bitbucket
11 6 (2.62%) LoadRunner
12 5 (2.18%) Appium
12 5 (2.18%) Robot Framework
13 4 (1.75%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 4 (1.75%) HP UFT
13 4 (1.75%) NeoLoad
13 4 (1.75%) TestComplete
General
1 71 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.03%) Finance
3 31 (13.54%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (9.61%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.68%) Banking
6 10 (4.37%) Retail
7 8 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.06%) Manufacturing
9 6 (2.62%) Front Office
9 6 (2.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.75%) Billing
10 4 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.31%) Financial Institution
11 3 (1.31%) Marketing
11 3 (1.31%) Military
12 2 (0.87%) Back Office
12 2 (0.87%) Documentation Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.87%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 63 (27.51%) Developer
2 47 (20.52%) Analyst
3 39 (17.03%) Lead
4 31 (13.54%) Senior
5 25 (10.92%) Test Analyst
6 22 (9.61%) Software Developer
6 22 (9.61%) Tester
7 17 (7.42%) Consultant
8 15 (6.55%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.24%) Senior Developer
10 11 (4.80%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (4.37%) Business Analyst
11 10 (4.37%) Java Developer
11 10 (4.37%) Test Leader
12 8 (3.49%) Senior Test Analyst
12 8 (3.49%) Software Test Engineer
12 8 (3.49%) Test Manager
13 7 (3.06%) Lead Developer
13 7 (3.06%) Software Engineer
14 6 (2.62%) Project Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.99%) .NET
2 14 (6.11%) RESTful
3 12 (5.24%) HTML
4 11 (4.80%) CSS
4 11 (4.80%) Playwright
5 10 (4.37%) Kafka
5 10 (4.37%) Spring
5 10 (4.37%) Spring Batch
5 10 (4.37%) Spring Boot
5 10 (4.37%) Swagger
5 10 (4.37%) Web Services
6 9 (3.93%) OpenAPI
6 9 (3.93%) Spring Security
7 7 (3.06%) React
8 6 (2.62%) XML
9 5 (2.18%) Node.js
10 4 (1.75%) Oracle Fusion
10 4 (1.75%) Play Framework
10 4 (1.75%) REST
10 4 (1.75%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.80%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.93%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 9 (3.93%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.18%) Data Structures
4 5 (2.18%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (2.18%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.75%) Derivative
5 4 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.75%) Greenfield Project
5 4 (1.75%) Legacy Applications
6 3 (1.31%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.31%) EPoS
6 3 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.31%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.87%) AS400
7 2 (0.87%) Equities
7 2 (0.87%) iSeries
7 2 (0.87%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 23 (10.04%) Linux
2 10 (4.37%) Windows
3 9 (3.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (2.18%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) AIX
5 1 (0.44%) Android
5 1 (0.44%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.44%) CentOS
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (36.68%) Test Automation
2 68 (29.69%) Agile
2 68 (29.69%) User Acceptance Testing
3 63 (27.51%) Unit Testing
4 58 (25.33%) CI/CD
5 55 (24.02%) DevOps
6 52 (22.71%) System Integration Testing
7 50 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
8 44 (19.21%) Software Testing
9 42 (18.34%) Validation
10 30 (13.10%) Test Strategy
11 29 (12.66%) End-to-End Testing
12 27 (11.79%) Software Engineering
13 25 (10.92%) Migration
13 25 (10.92%) Performance Testing
14 24 (10.48%) System Testing
15 23 (10.04%) Scrum
16 22 (9.61%) Microservices
16 22 (9.61%) Regression Testing
17 21 (9.17%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 62 (27.07%) SQL
2 45 (19.65%) Python
3 35 (15.28%) Java
4 23 (10.04%) C#
5 22 (9.61%) JavaScript
6 14 (6.11%) TypeScript
7 10 (4.37%) Bash
8 7 (3.06%) PL/SQL
9 6 (2.62%) C++
10 5 (2.18%) Ruby
11 4 (1.75%) PHP
11 4 (1.75%) Scala
12 2 (0.87%) Go
12 2 (0.87%) RPG
12 2 (0.87%) SOQL
12 2 (0.87%) VB
12 2 (0.87%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.44%) ABAP
13 1 (0.44%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.44%) VBA
Qualifications
1 72 (31.44%) Security Cleared
2 63 (27.51%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.86%) DV Cleared
4 13 (5.68%) ISTQB
5 8 (3.49%) Degree
6 4 (1.75%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 3 (1.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.31%) ISEB
8 2 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.87%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.44%) IIBA
9 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.44%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (17.90%) QA
2 8 (3.49%) Def Stans
3 5 (2.18%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.75%) GDPR
5 3 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.87%) SEPA
7 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.44%) IFRS
7 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.44%) WCAG
System Software
1 19 (8.30%) Docker
2 7 (3.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.31%) Firmware
4 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.44%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 25 (10.92%) Kubernetes
2 5 (2.18%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.18%) Terraform
3 3 (1.31%) Ansible
4 2 (0.87%) Control-M
4 2 (0.87%) Progress Chef
4 2 (0.87%) Puppet
5 1 (0.44%) Argo
5 1 (0.44%) Grafana
5 1 (0.44%) OPNET
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (0.44%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.44%) Rancher
Vendors
1 28 (12.23%) Oracle
2 26 (11.35%) Microsoft
2 26 (11.35%) SAP
3 9 (3.93%) VMware
4 6 (2.62%) Murex
5 5 (2.18%) HP
5 5 (2.18%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.18%) ServiceNow
5 5 (2.18%) Workday
6 4 (1.75%) Bloomberg
6 4 (1.75%) OpenAI
6 4 (1.75%) Reuters
6 4 (1.75%) Splunk
7 3 (1.31%) Cisco
7 3 (1.31%) Citrix
7 3 (1.31%) IBM
8 2 (0.87%) Genesys
8 2 (0.87%) Google
8 2 (0.87%) Nintex
8 2 (0.87%) SimCorp