Integration Testing Contracts in England

Integration Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Integration Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Integration Testing over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 315 335 333
Rank change year-on-year +20 -2 -14
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 236 365 581
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.64% 0.73% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.81% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 156 231 373
10th Percentile £306 £313 £340
25th Percentile £418 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £650 £645 £613
90th Percentile £765 £719 £693
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 22 18
10th Percentile £51.62 £43.74 £44.90
25th Percentile £56.25 £52.34 £49.25
Median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +20.00%
75th Percentile £60.31 £75.00 -
90th Percentile £65.75 £77.70 £65.51
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £71.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -19.30% +18.75% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Integration Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024.

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 5 May 2024. 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 +85 128 £508 -7.73% 34
South East +26 53 £675 +12.50% 19
Midlands +9 16 £525 -11.46% 17
North of England +7 15 £550 -2.22% 20
West Midlands +8 13 £544 +2.11% 10
North West +26 12 £550 +89.66% 12
East of England +11 9 £313 -37.50% 20
South West -12 6 £600 +33.33% 9
East Midlands +14 3 £500 -16.67% 7
Yorkshire +9 3 £470 -9.18% 7
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 19 (8.05%) Apache
2 17 (7.20%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (1.69%) Apache Spark
4 3 (1.27%) CMS
4 3 (1.27%) Confluence
5 2 (0.85%) IIS
5 2 (0.85%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (2.97%) Simulink
2 6 (2.54%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.12%) Stateflow
3 5 (2.12%) TargetLink
4 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
5 3 (1.27%) Microsoft Project
6 2 (0.85%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 19 (8.05%) SAP EWM
2 13 (5.51%) SAP QM
3 11 (4.66%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (1.69%) Endur
4 4 (1.69%) SAP PP
4 4 (1.69%) SAP SD
4 4 (1.69%) SAP VC
5 3 (1.27%) ION MarketView
5 3 (1.27%) Oracle EBS
5 3 (1.27%) SAP GTS
5 3 (1.27%) SAP PM
6 2 (0.85%) OPENHousing
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.85%) SAP R/3
7 1 (0.42%) Dynamics AX
7 1 (0.42%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.42%) RMDS
7 1 (0.42%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 44 (18.64%) Azure
2 30 (12.71%) AWS
3 22 (9.32%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.39%) Azure Monitor
5 7 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
6 6 (2.54%) GitHub
6 6 (2.54%) Power Platform
6 6 (2.54%) Serverless
7 4 (1.69%) Amazon Kinesis
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Cognitive Search
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Cosmos DB
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Functions
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Key Vault
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Logic Apps
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Service Bus
7 4 (1.69%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 4 (1.69%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.69%) GitHub Actions
7 4 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.69%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (7.20%) MPLS
2 14 (5.93%) Radio Access Network
3 13 (5.51%) BGP
3 13 (5.51%) Ethernet VPN
3 13 (5.51%) VPN
4 6 (2.54%) SNMP
4 6 (2.54%) Wireshark
5 4 (1.69%) PBX
5 4 (1.69%) PSTN
5 4 (1.69%) VoIP
6 2 (0.85%) DHCP
6 2 (0.85%) DNS
6 2 (0.85%) FTP
6 2 (0.85%) LAN
6 2 (0.85%) TCP/IP
6 2 (0.85%) tcpdump
6 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.42%) 4G
7 1 (0.42%) 5G
7 1 (0.42%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (13.14%) NoSQL
2 15 (6.36%) MongoDB
2 15 (6.36%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (5.93%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.97%) KDB
5 6 (2.54%) Azure SQL Database
5 6 (2.54%) Data Lake
5 6 (2.54%) Data Warehouse
5 6 (2.54%) Relational Database
6 5 (2.12%) DynamoDB
7 4 (1.69%) DB2
7 4 (1.69%) Parquet
7 4 (1.69%) SAP HANA
8 3 (1.27%) Amazon Athena
8 3 (1.27%) Amazon Redshift
8 3 (1.27%) Big Data
8 3 (1.27%) Flink
8 3 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 2 (0.85%) Amazon RDS
9 2 (0.85%) Power Query
Development Applications
1 39 (16.53%) JIRA
2 26 (11.02%) Git
3 16 (6.78%) Selenium
4 15 (6.36%) GitLab
5 13 (5.51%) Robot Framework
5 13 (5.51%) TestRail
6 11 (4.66%) Jenkins
7 8 (3.39%) Bitbucket
8 6 (2.54%) Cucumber
8 6 (2.54%) SpecFlow
9 5 (2.12%) JUnit
9 5 (2.12%) Subversion
9 5 (2.12%) TestNG
9 5 (2.12%) Visual Studio
10 4 (1.69%) Cypress.io
10 4 (1.69%) Deequ
10 4 (1.69%) REST Assured
11 3 (1.27%) Poetry
11 3 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.27%) webpack
General
1 43 (18.22%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.95%) Finance
3 23 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 7 (2.97%) Banking
5 7 (2.97%) Manufacturing
5 7 (2.97%) Presentation Skills
5 7 (2.97%) Retail
6 6 (2.54%) Telecoms
7 5 (2.12%) Automotive
7 5 (2.12%) Electronics
7 5 (2.12%) Legal
8 4 (1.69%) Marketing
9 3 (1.27%) Back Office
9 3 (1.27%) Front Office
9 3 (1.27%) Law
9 3 (1.27%) Military
9 3 (1.27%) Social Housing
10 2 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.85%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (18.64%) Developer
2 33 (13.98%) Analyst
2 33 (13.98%) Consultant
3 26 (11.02%) Senior
4 23 (9.75%) SAP Consultant
4 23 (9.75%) Test Engineer
5 21 (8.90%) Test Analyst
6 19 (8.05%) Lead
7 17 (7.20%) Test Manager
8 14 (5.93%) Tester
9 13 (5.51%) SAP QM Consultant
9 13 (5.51%) Senior Developer
10 12 (5.08%) Network Engineer
11 10 (4.24%) Architect
11 10 (4.24%) Software Developer
12 8 (3.39%) Software Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) C# Developer
13 7 (2.97%) Integration Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) Principal Engineer
13 7 (2.97%) SAP EWM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.90%) REST
2 20 (8.47%) .NET
2 20 (8.47%) SOAP
3 17 (7.20%) JSON
4 15 (6.36%) NETCONF
5 14 (5.93%) RESTful
6 13 (5.51%) Node.js
6 13 (5.51%) RESTCONF
7 12 (5.08%) CSS
7 12 (5.08%) YANG
8 11 (4.66%) AngularJS
8 11 (4.66%) HTML
8 11 (4.66%) React
8 11 (4.66%) XML
9 10 (4.24%) WebSockets
10 9 (3.81%) FastAPI
11 7 (2.97%) Great Expectations
12 6 (2.54%) .NET Core
12 6 (2.54%) Oracle Fusion
13 5 (2.12%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.24%) Distributed Systems
2 9 (3.81%) Management Information System
3 7 (2.97%) Algorithms
3 7 (2.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 6 (2.54%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.12%) Linux Command Line
6 4 (1.69%) Derivative
7 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
7 3 (1.27%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (1.27%) NHS
7 3 (1.27%) PACS
7 3 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.27%) Wiki
8 2 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
8 2 (0.85%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.85%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.85%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.81%) Windows
2 8 (3.39%) Linux
3 6 (2.54%) Unix
4 3 (1.27%) AIX
5 2 (0.85%) Solaris
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.42%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (34.75%) Agile
2 75 (31.78%) User Acceptance Testing
3 73 (30.93%) Test Automation
4 55 (23.31%) Unit Testing
5 50 (21.19%) CI/CD
6 39 (16.53%) DevOps
7 38 (16.10%) System Integration Testing
8 37 (15.68%) Scrum
9 33 (13.98%) End-to-End Testing
10 32 (13.56%) Migration
11 30 (12.71%) Analytics
11 30 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
12 28 (11.86%) Performance Testing
12 28 (11.86%) Regression Testing
12 28 (11.86%) Software Testing
13 27 (11.44%) Test Scripting
14 26 (11.02%) GAP Analysis
15 24 (10.17%) Continuous Integration
15 24 (10.17%) Security Testing
16 23 (9.75%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 53 (22.46%) SQL
2 51 (21.61%) Python
3 24 (10.17%) JavaScript
4 23 (9.75%) Java
5 22 (9.32%) C#
6 9 (3.81%) C
7 8 (3.39%) C++
8 7 (2.97%) MATLAB
8 7 (2.97%) TypeScript
9 5 (2.12%) PHP
9 5 (2.12%) Shell Script
10 4 (1.69%) Bicep
10 4 (1.69%) PowerShell
11 3 (1.27%) ABAP
11 3 (1.27%) Ada
11 3 (1.27%) Scala
11 3 (1.27%) T-SQL
12 2 (0.85%) Ada 95
12 2 (0.85%) Bash
12 2 (0.85%) SAPscript
Qualifications
1 43 (18.22%) Security Cleared
2 36 (15.25%) SC Cleared
3 18 (7.63%) Degree
4 13 (5.51%) ISTQB
5 9 (3.81%) ISEB
6 8 (3.39%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.12%) Master's Degree
8 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.27%) CTC Cleared
8 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.27%) PMP
8 3 (1.27%) SAP Certification
9 2 (0.85%) CCNA
9 2 (0.85%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.42%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (8.90%) QA
2 11 (4.66%) Data Quality
3 6 (2.54%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.12%) AUTOSAR
4 5 (2.12%) ISO 26262
4 5 (2.12%) MISRA
4 5 (2.12%) MISRA C
5 3 (1.27%) HL7
6 2 (0.85%) Def Stans
6 2 (0.85%) GxP
6 2 (0.85%) NIST
6 2 (0.85%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.42%) GDPR
7 1 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (9.32%) Docker
2 1 (0.42%) Cronacle
2 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 13 (5.51%) Terraform
2 8 (3.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.85%) Ansible
3 2 (0.85%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.85%) Nmap
3 2 (0.85%) OpenNMS
3 2 (0.85%) Tivoli
4 1 (0.42%) Check_MK
4 1 (0.42%) Control-M
Vendors
1 62 (26.27%) SAP
2 19 (8.05%) Microsoft
3 18 (7.63%) Oracle
4 6 (2.54%) OpenAI
5 5 (2.12%) ION Trading
5 5 (2.12%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.69%) Databricks
7 3 (1.27%) Adobe
7 3 (1.27%) AppDynamics
7 3 (1.27%) Capita
7 3 (1.27%) Cisco
7 3 (1.27%) Murex
7 3 (1.27%) Northgate
7 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.27%) Siemens
7 3 (1.27%) Tradeweb
8 2 (0.85%) F5
8 2 (0.85%) IBM
8 2 (0.85%) MarketAxess
8 2 (0.85%) Panasonic