System Integration Testing Contracts in the North West

System Integration Testing (SIT)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 103 133 136
Rank change year-on-year +30 +3 +30
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 17 4 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.86% 0.15% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.17% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 18
10th Percentile £413 £464 £388
25th Percentile £454 £467 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £481 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.68% -3.75% +17.65%
75th Percentile £536 £492 £540
90th Percentile £575 £493 £580
England median daily rate £475 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -10.38% -3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £66.69
England median hourly rate - - £57.85
% change year-on-year - - +41.95%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,776 2,377 2,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.24% 86.28% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 1,519 2,058
10th Percentile £300 £306 £313
25th Percentile £393 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £593 £588
90th Percentile £661 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 244 144
10th Percentile £15.97 £10.95 £16.85
25th Percentile £22.66 £13.30 £21.25
Median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £45.22 £48.91
90th Percentile £83.96 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for System Integration Testing in the North West

System Integration Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing System Integration Testing in the North West.

Daily rate trend for System Integration Testing in the North West

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for System Integration Testing in the North West

System Integration Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing System Integration Testing in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for System Integration Testing in the North West

System Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing System Integration Testing within the North West 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
Manchester +19 5 £320 -33.51% 1
Cheshire +2 3 £525 - 2
Merseyside - 3 £650 - 4
Lancashire - 1 £425 - 4
System Integration Testing
England

System Integration Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (23.53%) NetWeaver
2 1 (5.88%) CICS
2 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (5.88%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) JIRA
2 4 (23.53%) JMeter
2 4 (23.53%) LoadRunner
2 4 (23.53%) Selenium
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 6 (35.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (23.53%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
4 3 (17.65%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Tester
2 6 (35.29%) Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Integration Developer
3 4 (23.53%) SAP Developer
3 4 (23.53%) Software Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Siebel Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Siebel Architect
5 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (41.18%) JMS
1 7 (41.18%) SOAP
2 4 (23.53%) EDI
2 4 (23.53%) IDoc
2 4 (23.53%) JDBC
2 4 (23.53%) Middleware
2 4 (23.53%) REST
2 4 (23.53%) SAP PI
2 4 (23.53%) XML
2 4 (23.53%) XSLT
3 3 (17.65%) Web Services
4 1 (5.88%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Virtual Team
2 4 (23.53%) Legacy Applications
3 3 (17.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (5.88%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (5.88%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (70.59%) SDLC
3 9 (52.94%) Performance Testing
3 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
4 8 (47.06%) Agile
4 8 (47.06%) System Testing
5 7 (41.18%) End-to-End Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Data Validation
6 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
6 5 (29.41%) Test Strategy
6 5 (29.41%) Validation
7 4 (23.53%) Black-Box Testing
7 4 (23.53%) DevOps
7 4 (23.53%) Integration Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
7 4 (23.53%) Process Improvement
7 4 (23.53%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (23.53%) Scrum
7 4 (23.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 4 (23.53%) ABAP
2 4 (23.53%) Java
3 3 (17.65%) PL/SQL
4 1 (5.88%) JCL
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) ISTQB
1 5 (29.41%) SC Cleared
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) SAP
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
2 3 (17.65%) Siebel
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.88%) IBM