Integration Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Integration Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 99 116 131
Rank change year-on-year +17 +15 +52
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 12 17 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.63% 0.62% 1.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 0.75% 1.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 26
10th Percentile £421 £295 £338
25th Percentile £425 £325 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £593
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -11.46% +31.77%
75th Percentile £620 £594 £620
90th Percentile £633 £680 £625
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.14% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £57.50 -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £57.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +4.35% -17.86% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Integration Testing in the Midlands

Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Integration Testing in the Midlands

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the Midlands

Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Integration Testing in the Midlands

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +7 7 £461 -15.17% 17
East Midlands +12 5 £463 -7.50% 8
Integration Testing
England

Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) SaaS
2 2 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) BrowserStack
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (16.67%) JIRA
1 2 (16.67%) JMeter
1 2 (16.67%) Postman
1 2 (16.67%) Selenium
1 2 (16.67%) SoapUI
2 1 (8.33%) Appium
2 1 (8.33%) LoadRunner
2 1 (8.33%) Serenity BDD
2 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
2 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Automation Test Lead
2 2 (16.67%) Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Developer
2 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
2 2 (16.67%) Integration Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) QA Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms Manager
2 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Retail Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Manager
3 1 (8.33%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) Next.js
1 2 (16.67%) React
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 2 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (8.33%) EPoS
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 7 (58.33%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
5 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
5 4 (33.33%) Test Management
5 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (33.33%) Validation
6 3 (25.00%) BDD
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
7 2 (16.67%) Front End Development
7 2 (16.67%) Microservices
7 2 (16.67%) Performance Metrics
7 2 (16.67%) Resilience Testing
7 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) Java
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
3 1 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Nintex
3 1 (8.33%) Micro Focus
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Oracle