System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

System Integration Testing (SIT)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 88 81 99
Rank change year-on-year -7 +18 +18
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 7 6 2
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.59% 0.58% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.63% 0.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 2
10th Percentile £485 £274 £307
25th Percentile £500 £288 £339
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £325 £400
Median % change year-on-year +84.62% -18.75% -13.51%
75th Percentile £625 £337 £454
90th Percentile £657 £337 £482
North West median daily rate £556 £325 £350
% change year-on-year +71.15% -7.14% -20.45%

All Process & 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 1,053 946 1,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.31% 90.96% 87.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 714 566 975
10th Percentile £304 £294 £303
25th Percentile £376 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £575 £575 £584
90th Percentile £638 £681 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 33 44
10th Percentile £17.30 £15.93 £13.04
25th Percentile £19.75 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.60 £32.50 £38.75
Median % change year-on-year -8.92% -16.13% -3.13%
75th Percentile £57.50 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £64.75 £60.00 £80.33
North West median hourly rate £41.77 £30.95 £40.00
% change year-on-year +34.95% -22.63% +12.68%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing System Integration Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing System Integration Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in Manchester

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP HR
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) OCI
2 2 (28.57%) Boomi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle BI Publisher
General
1 4 (57.14%) Finance
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) HR Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Integration Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Financial Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) SAP HR Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Integration Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Payroll Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Payroll Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) QA Manual Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) AS400
1 1 (14.29%) iSeries
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (28.57%) ERP
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Programme Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Regulatory Change
4 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Security Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Assurance
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle
2 2 (28.57%) SAP