System Integration Testing Contract Job Trends in Northern Ireland

System Integration Testing (SIT)
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Northern Ireland requiring System Integration Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - 23
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing System Integration Testing 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in Northern Ireland 0.87% - 2.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% - 3.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £500
75th Percentile £488 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £550
% change year-on-year +7.63% -13.64% +1.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 194 149 137
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 84.72% 92.55% 81.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 89 71 75
10th Percentile £260 £143 £215
25th Percentile £400 £225 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £325 £500
Median % change year-on-year +46.15% -35.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £613
90th Percentile £638 £600 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 17 18
10th Percentile £12.31 £22.50 £11.90
25th Percentile £15.13 - £12.25
Median hourly rate £21.55 £24.18 £14.79
Median % change year-on-year -10.88% +63.54% -4.61%
75th Percentile £38.07 £52.31 £18.56
90th Percentile £53.75 £78.47 £23.54
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.96
% change year-on-year -22.62% -9.62% +12.38%

System Integration Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

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

System Integration Testing job vacancy trend in Northern Ireland

System Integration Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Northern Ireland

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

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

System Integration Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 31 January 2026. 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
County Antrim - 1 £475 - 1
County Armagh - 1 £475 -
System Integration Testing
UK

System Integration Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) ERP Implementation Manager
1 2 (100.00%) ERP Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Implementation Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Programme Test Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Test Manager
1 2 (100.00%) Test Programme Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (100.00%) ERP
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Migration
1 2 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Infor