Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Integration Testing
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 163 133 149
Rank change year-on-year -30 +16 +42
Contract jobs citing Integration Testing 45 28 38
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.96% 0.78% 0.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.08% 0.90% 0.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 16
10th Percentile £418 £356 £318
25th Percentile £425 - £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £400 £523
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -23.44% -9.13%
75th Percentile £577 £591 £641
90th Percentile £674 £715 £717
England median daily rate £487 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -11.45% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £71.60 - -
25th Percentile £74.00 - -
Median hourly rate £78.00 - -
75th Percentile £82.00 - -
90th Percentile £84.40 - -
England median hourly rate £70.00 £62.50 £74.00
% change year-on-year +12.00% -15.54% +13.85%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,173 3,118 4,113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.81% 86.73% 88.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,776 1,783 2,721
10th Percentile £215 £260 £288
25th Percentile £363 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £675
England median daily rate £505 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.81% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 264 159 188
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.18 £15.65
25th Percentile £19.32 £17.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £28.96 £29.00 £28.30
Median % change year-on-year -0.16% +2.47% +28.64%
75th Percentile £51.50 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £66.10 £62.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.30%

Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Integration Testing job vacancy trend in the North of England

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Integration Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Integration Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Integration Testing in the North of England

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Integration Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Integration Testing

Integration Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Integration Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Integration Testing in the North of England

Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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
North West -18 31 £500 +25.00% 4
Yorkshire -40 9 £544 -30.32% 2
North East -3 5 £425 +17.24% 1
Integration Testing
England

Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.22%) Confluence
1 1 (2.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (8.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.22%) BambooHR
2 1 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP HCM
2 1 (2.22%) SAP Payroll
2 1 (2.22%) SAP PP
Cloud Services
1 13 (28.89%) Azure
2 7 (15.56%) AWS
3 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.89%) Boomi
3 4 (8.89%) SuccessFactors
4 3 (6.67%) OCI
5 2 (4.44%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.22%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.22%) GCP
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.22%) OpenShift
6 1 (2.22%) PaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
6 1 (2.22%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.89%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.22%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.22%) Power BI
3 1 (2.22%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.22%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Git
2 10 (22.22%) JIRA
3 4 (8.89%) Cucumber
3 4 (8.89%) REST Assured
4 3 (6.67%) IntelliJ
4 3 (6.67%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (4.44%) GitLab
5 2 (4.44%) Gradle
5 2 (4.44%) Selenium
6 1 (2.22%) Android Studio
6 1 (2.22%) Ant
6 1 (2.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (2.22%) Eclipse
6 1 (2.22%) fastlane
6 1 (2.22%) Jenkins
6 1 (2.22%) JUnit
6 1 (2.22%) NUnit
6 1 (2.22%) SoapUI
6 1 (2.22%) Xcode
6 1 (2.22%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (31.11%) Finance
2 11 (24.44%) Public Sector
2 11 (24.44%) Social Skills
3 10 (22.22%) Banking
4 6 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.67%) Local Government
6 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.44%) Retail
7 1 (2.22%) Back Office
7 1 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Developer
2 6 (13.33%) Analyst
2 6 (13.33%) Senior
3 5 (11.11%) Java Developer
3 5 (11.11%) Lead
3 5 (11.11%) Project Manager
3 5 (11.11%) Test Analyst
4 4 (8.89%) Software Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Test Engineer
5 3 (6.67%) SAP Analyst
5 3 (6.67%) SAP Test Analyst
6 2 (4.44%) Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Oracle Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) SAP Consultant
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Project Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Senior Software Engineer
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Manager
6 2 (4.44%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (31.11%) REST
1 14 (31.11%) Spring Boot
2 11 (24.44%) Spring
3 9 (20.00%) JMS
4 6 (13.33%) Oracle Fusion
5 5 (11.11%) .NET
6 4 (8.89%) WireMock
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Core
7 3 (6.67%) .NET Framework
7 3 (6.67%) ASP.NET
7 3 (6.67%) Entity Framework
7 3 (6.67%) React
8 2 (4.44%) GraphQL
8 2 (4.44%) HTML
8 2 (4.44%) JSON
8 2 (4.44%) JSON Schema
8 2 (4.44%) OAuth
8 2 (4.44%) OpenTelemetry
8 2 (4.44%) RESTful
8 2 (4.44%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Cloud Native
1 8 (17.78%) SWIFT Messaging Network
2 4 (8.89%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.44%) IVR
3 2 (4.44%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.22%) AS400
4 1 (2.22%) FMCG
4 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.22%) iSeries
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (2.22%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.22%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.22%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.22%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) Android
2 1 (2.22%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
2 22 (48.89%) Agile
3 17 (37.78%) Problem-Solving
4 15 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 13 (28.89%) Containerisation
5 13 (28.89%) DevOps
5 13 (28.89%) Test Automation
5 13 (28.89%) Unit Testing
6 12 (26.67%) SDLC
6 12 (26.67%) System Integration Testing
7 9 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
8 8 (17.78%) Anti-Money Laundering
9 6 (13.33%) Defect Management
9 6 (13.33%) Migration
9 6 (13.33%) TDD
10 5 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (11.11%) ERP
10 5 (11.11%) Functional Testing
10 5 (11.11%) Mentoring
10 5 (11.11%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 16 (35.56%) Java
2 12 (26.67%) SQL
3 5 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (4.44%) Kotlin
5 1 (2.22%) ABAP
5 1 (2.22%) Bicep
5 1 (2.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.22%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.22%) Swift
Qualifications
1 4 (8.89%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 3 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.44%) Degree
3 2 (4.44%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (26.67%) QA
2 8 (17.78%) ISO 20022
2 8 (17.78%) PSD2
2 8 (17.78%) SEPA
3 3 (6.67%) Accessibility
4 1 (2.22%) PMO
4 1 (2.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 13 (28.89%) Docker
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.44%) Grafana
2 2 (4.44%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (4.44%) Terraform
3 1 (2.22%) Ansible
Vendors
1 17 (37.78%) Oracle
2 7 (15.56%) SAP
3 5 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.22%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.22%) Duck Creek
4 1 (2.22%) Google
4 1 (2.22%) Guidewire
4 1 (2.22%) Workday