Integration Testing Contracts in Manchester

Integration Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 89 109
Rank change year-on-year +22 +20 +19
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 12 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.30% 0.46% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 0.53% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 8
10th Percentile £355 £468 -
25th Percentile £438 £477 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £519 £290
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +78.88% -31.76%
75th Percentile £469 £588 £356
90th Percentile £570 £610 £515
North West median daily rate £450 £575 £290
% change year-on-year -21.74% +98.28% -35.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 830 1,321 1,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.63% 87.08% 91.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 898 1,273
10th Percentile £300 £319 £315
25th Percentile £400 £407 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - +1.73%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £594
90th Percentile £675 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 73 61
10th Percentile £15.18 £12.42 £14.65
25th Percentile £19.25 £13.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £24.19 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year +34.35% -35.15% +140.65%
75th Percentile £63.75 £57.50 £47.50
90th Percentile £77.00 £72.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in Manchester

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in Manchester

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in Manchester

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in Manchester

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 2 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) BambooHR
1 1 (8.33%) SAP MM
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub
2 2 (16.67%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (16.67%) Slack
3 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Apache Cassandra
1 2 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 2 (16.67%) MySQL
1 2 (16.67%) ObjectStore
1 2 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Git
1 4 (33.33%) JMeter
1 4 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 4 (33.33%) Selenium
2 3 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 2 (16.67%) GitLab
3 2 (16.67%) Jasmine
3 2 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (8.33%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
3 2 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
1 5 (41.67%) Senior
1 5 (41.67%) Senior Developer
2 4 (33.33%) Software Tester
2 4 (33.33%) Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Senior Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) HR Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Node.js Developer
4 1 (8.33%) Web Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Web Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) RESTful
2 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
2 2 (16.67%) OpenAPI
2 2 (16.67%) React
2 2 (16.67%) Spring
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Batch
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Boot
2 2 (16.67%) Spring Security
2 2 (16.67%) Swagger
3 1 (8.33%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
1 2 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 5 (41.67%) System Testing
2 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 5 (41.67%) Validation
3 4 (33.33%) API Design
3 4 (33.33%) Containerisation
3 4 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (33.33%) Data Validation
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 4 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 4 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 3 (25.00%) Unit Testing
5 2 (16.67%) OWASP
5 2 (16.67%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 4 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Sage
1 1 (8.33%) SAP
1 1 (8.33%) Workday