System Integration Testing Contracts in Manchester

System Integration Testing (SIT)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring System Integration Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited System 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 74 93 105
Rank change year-on-year +19 +12 +36
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 5 3 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.20% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.60% 0.23% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 12
10th Percentile - £464 -
25th Percentile - £467 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 £481 £425
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +13.24% -
75th Percentile - £492 £513
90th Percentile - £493 £640
North West median daily rate £478 £481 £500
% change year-on-year -0.68% -3.75% +17.65%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 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%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in Manchester

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in Manchester

System 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 1 (20.00%) CICS
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JMeter
1 4 (80.00%) LoadRunner
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Software Tester
1 4 (80.00%) Tester
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Technical Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Distributed Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 5 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Validation
2 4 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 4 (80.00%) DevOps
2 4 (80.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Manual Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Process Improvement
2 4 (80.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (80.00%) System Testing
2 4 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) SQL
2 1 (20.00%) JCL
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) IBM
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft