Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Integration Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 64 90
Rank change year-on-year -15 +26 +20
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 6 23 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.59% 1.94% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 2.22% 1.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 13 7
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £425 - £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £290
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% +37.93% -38.95%
75th Percentile £475 £494 £305
90th Percentile £520 £550 £416
North West median daily rate £492 £400 £295
% change year-on-year +23.00% +35.59% -34.44%

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 910 1,037 1,469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.83% 87.29% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 591 632 1,050
10th Percentile £308 £313 £276
25th Percentile £400 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 35 59
10th Percentile £15.28 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £21.63 £16.74
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -1.27%
75th Percentile £46.94 £62.50 £43.75
90th Percentile £74.38 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.83% +21.43% +55.56%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in Manchester

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Integration Testing

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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (83.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (16.67%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) SuccessFactors
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Ant
1 1 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 1 (16.67%) IntelliJ
1 1 (16.67%) JUnit
1 1 (16.67%) NUnit
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Local Government
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Manager
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Test Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) SAP Test Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Java Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
1 1 (16.67%) .NET Core
1 1 (16.67%) ADO.NET
1 1 (16.67%) Ajax
1 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 1 (16.67%) EJB
1 1 (16.67%) Hibernate
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) J2EE
1 1 (16.67%) JavaBeans
1 1 (16.67%) JDBC
1 1 (16.67%) JMS
1 1 (16.67%) JSP
1 1 (16.67%) JSTL
1 1 (16.67%) Spring
1 1 (16.67%) Struts
1 1 (16.67%) Swing
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
1 1 (16.67%) WinForms
1 1 (16.67%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 4 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Regression Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Test Management
2 4 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Data Modelling
3 2 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Implementation
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) Traceability Matrix
4 1 (16.67%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) HP